Leinster Senior Football Championship 2025

[Cortoon]

Restricting to capacity to 7k when they could sell it out twice. Then playing games in Croke Park where there's 20k there and 60k empty seats.   

[Laois Rising]

Wicklow to ambush Dublin in Aughrim as they did Laois in 86. I still don't think I've got over it. That loss ended the hopes of a golden generation of Laois footballer. Maybe Wicklow can put paid to this golden generation of Dublin's. Not sure Wicklow could get away with the tactics they used that day though today.

[Captain Scarlet]

Kildare#s season is losing momentum. The two losses to Offaly have taken the buzz down a notch, and even though we were promoted they were body blows.
The worrying bit is that Offaly were let do the same thing to us and we didn't learn. Our subs made no impact and we are struggling with runners from deep.

Westmeath may have gone down, but they are not a bad team at all. Newbridge might help to swing it a bit...

[Blowitupref]

Another injury blow for Meath with the news that Jack Kinlough has been ruled out for the remainder of the year with ACL.


Teams for this weekend games.

Wicklow:

Mark Jackson
Tom Moran, Craig Maguire, Malachy Stone
Joe Prendergast, Patrick O'Keane, Matt Nolan
Dean Healy, Jack Kirwan
John Paul Nolan, Padraig O'Toole, Darragh Fee;
Oisin McGraynor, Kevin Quinn, Mark Kenny.

Subs: Cathal Fitzgerald, Jacques McCall, Gavin Fogarty, Cathal Baker, Conor Fee, Christopher O'Brien, Liam O'Neill, Adam Arslan, Lorcan Smith, Eoin Darcy, Andy Maher.

Dublin:

Evan Comerford;
David Byrne, Theo Clancy, Conor Tyrell;
Brian Howard, Cian Murphy, Sean MacMahon;
 Peadar Ó Cofaigh Byrne, Tom Lahiff;
Niall Scully, Sean Bugler, Ciarán Kilkenny;
Ross McGarry, Con O'Callaghan, Colm Basquel.

Subs: Stephen Cluxton, Cormac Costello, Davy Keogh, Kevin Lahiff, James Madden, Greg McEneaney, Killian McGinnis, Lorcan O'Dell, Eoghan O'Donnell, Brian O'Leary, Paddy Small.


Offaly:

Paddy Dunican;
Lee Pearson, Aidan Bracken, Daire McDaid;
Rory Egan, John Furlong, Cormac Egan;
Jack MeEvoy, Jordan Hayes;
Kyle Higgins, Cathal Flynn, Keith O'Neill;
Dylan Hyland, Jack Bryant, Shane Tierney.

Subs: Sean O'Toole, Cillian Bourke, Marcas Dalton, David Dempsey, Cathal Donoghue, Nigel Dunne, Shane O'Toole Greene, Aaron Leavy, Ruairi McNamee, Eoin Sawyer, Morgan Tynan.

Meath:

Billy Hogan;
Seamus Lavin, Seán Rafferty, Brian O'Halloran;
Eoin Harkin, Donal Keogan, Ciarán Caulfield;
Jack Flynn, Bryan Menton;
Conor Duke, Ruairi Kinsella, Keith Curtis;
Aaron Lynch, Matthew Costello, Eoghan Frayne.

 Subs: Seán Brennan, Seán Ryan, Ronan Ryan, Adam O'Neill, Seán Coffey, Shane Walsh, Cathal Hickey, Diarmuid Moriarty, Thomas O'Reilly, Jason Scully, Cillian O'Sulivan.


Louth:

Niall McDonnell
Emmet Carolan, Dermot Campbell, Donal McKenny
Daire Nally, Peter Lynch, Conal McKeever
Tommy Durnin, Fearghal Malone
Paul Matthews, Ciaran Downey, Andy McDonnell
Conor Grimes, Kevin McArdle, Ryan Burns.

Subs: Tiarnan Markey, Liam Jackson, Leonard Grey, Craig Lennon, Ciaran Byrne, Dara McDonnell, Daire McConnon, Conor Branigan, Sean Reynolds, Dylan McKeown, Liam Flynn.

Laois:

Killian Roche;
Ben Dempsey, Trevor Collins, Patrick O'Sullivan;
Pa Kirwan, Simon Fingleton, Liam Knowles;
Conor Heffernan, Seamus Lacey;
 Mark Barry, Kevin Swayne, Daniel O'Reilly;
Ronan Coffey, Niall Corbett, Brian Byrne.

Subs: Conor Brown, Ryan Brady, John Brennan, Benny Carroll, Jamie Conway, Josh Hogan, Fionn Holland, Jonah Kelly, Damon Larkin, Cathal Lee, Seán O'Neill.

Kildare:

Cian Burke;
Harry O'Neill, Mark Dempsey, Brian Byrne;
Kevin Flynn, David Hyland, James McGrath;
Kevin Feely, Callum Bolton;
Colm Dalton, Alex Beirne, Ben McCormack;
Niall Kelly, Darragh Kirwan, Brian McLoughlin.

Subs: Didier Cordonnier, Ryan Burke, Mick O'Grady, Jack McKevitt, Tommy Gill, Ryan Houlihan, Aaron Masterson, Cathal Hagney, Paddy McDermott, Darragh Swords, Ryan Sinkey.

Westmeath:

Conor McCormack;
Jamie Gonoud, David Giles, Conor Dillon;
Nigel Harte, Ronan Wallace, Sam McCartan;
Ray Connellan, Fionn O'Hara;
Kevin O'Sullivan, Danny McCartan, Matthew Whittaker;
Robbie Forde, Luke Loughlin, Brian Cooney.

Subs: Kieran Martin, Sam Smith, Brian Guerin, Joseph Moran, Eoghan McCabe, Brandon Kelly, Jonathan Lynam, Lorcan Dolan, Daniel Scahill, Stephen Smith, Shane Ormsby.

[Captain Scarlet]

That is Kildare's strongest team of the year IF they are all fit and ready. Kevin Flynn and Kirwan have barely featured. Ben McCormack has been in and out.

Going in hope tomorrow as we are so open at the back and slow to pull the trigger up top it's not looking good. Grand evening for it mind...

[Wildweasel74]

Where Kildare good fballer go,at full forward, Daniel Flynn, he been retired a couple of yrs or just drop out.

[Grace Murphy]

Why did meath lose their coaches?

[LarryStiles]

That is Kildare's strongest team of the year IF they are all fit and ready. Kevin Flynn and Kirwan have barely featured. Ben McCormack has been in and out.

Going in hope tomorrow as we are so open at the back and slow to pull the trigger up top it's not looking good. Grand evening for it mind...

Kildare will be beat Westmeath well. They took foot off the gas after qualifying for league final. The focus has always been on the game today. Kildare 25/1. A each way bet is great value as will beat Louth too.

[Blowitupref]

Decent game so far, Kildare goal levels up the game 1-7 to 0-10 a few minutes before half time.   Westmeath lead at the break 0-12 to 1-8.

[LarryStiles]

Kildare have weathered the storm. Only one behind with Westmeath playing all the football. Expect them to hit a dominant patch on the scoreboard. Kirwan and Beirne are top range forwards. Kildare to win by 8-10 points.

[Angus MacGyver]

Very enjoyable game in Newbridge. Connellan was lording it until injury. Westmeath have the legs on Kildare

[LarryStiles]

Kildare great value now at 2/1. Connellan big loss to Westmeath.

[Blowitupref]

2nd goal for Kildare 2-11 to 0-16 they lead.

[seafoid]

Kildare now ahead by 2.

[Harold Disgracey]

Enjoyable game this!