Leinster U20 and U17 football championship 2025

[Louther]

Louth have struggled for years at development squad level and into minor age groups.
A lot of counties persist with these players but Louth have looked at others making waves or late bloomers in club football and it's helped. Devlin has helped but early days for him. Getting coaches and clubs to step up is key and this will feed into teams at all levels.

Massive win last night and great to see consistency from year on year, county like Louth needs that, no good one age group making a final and then not been seen competing again for years. It's a numbers age to get players though.

[Honda Royal]

What happened?
"Leinster U-20 final moved to Newbridge due to Parnell Park pitch vandalism"

[Gael85]

What happened?
"Leinster U-20 final moved to Newbridge due to Parnell Park pitch vandalism"

Vandals broke in and sprayed weed killer on the pitch. 

[Cunny Funt]

Well done Louth 7 point winners v Meath. First u20/U21 title since the 80s.

[LarryStiles]

Well done Louth 7 point winners v Meath. First u20/U21 title since the 80s.

Unreal. Well done..They play Mayo now?

[Laois Rising]

I think Louth are a perfect example of what can be achieved when you get enough good people interested and invested in improving standards within a county.

A special committee – comprising, among others, ex-Louth boss Wayne Kierans, Paul Gallagher, Ciarán Sloan and Peter Dooley plotted and created over the last couple of years a pathway for the county at development squad level- identifying a preferred style of play and looking at ways to expand a high performance culture. Devlin was then added to the ticket last year and has been central to its implementation and helping move Louth underage football in the right direction. Laois and other Leinster counties do well to learn from this. Laois underage football has regressed badly the last few years. If you standstill you will fall behind as the likes of Kildare, Meath, Dublin and Louth continue to improve their underage structures year on year.

[SLIGONIAN]

Delighted for Louth, hopefully they can go on now and win the senior.

[Blowitupref]

U17 Quarter final results from tonight

Louth 3-16 Westmeath 3-12
Meath 2-14 Offaly 4-11

They join Kildare and Dublin in the semi finals

[thejuice]

I was more confident of the U20's winning than i am for the seniors. Minors were disappointing this year all along but hopefully a bit stronger next year.

Well done to Louth and Offaly.

[omagh_gael]

I was more confident of the U20's winning than i am for the seniors. Minors were disappointing this year all along but hopefully a bit stronger next year.

Well done to Louth and Offaly.

Were there many lads a around from the all Ireland u17 winners juice? They were a great team that pipped us in great final in 2021.

[Blowitupref]

The two U17 Leinster Semi finals on tonight.


At 730pm Dublin v Louth

Half time in the other semi final  Offaly 2-4 Kildare 1-10

[rodney trotter]

Louth are flying so far. 1-3 to no score

[Cunny Funt]

Louth are flying so far. 1-3 to no score

The number 8 for louth is taller and more physical looking than some of their Seniors.

[Blowitupref]

Offaly and Kildare level with 9 minutes left.

A 4th goal for Offaly to put them two in front with 5 minutes left.  Level again into 4 mins of added time Offaly 4-7 Kildare 1-16.

Long range free from the Offaly Goalkeeper wins it. 4-9 to 1-16.

In the other game half time Dublin 1-7 Louth 1-8.  Louth lead out to 6 points with 20 minutes to go.

[LarryStiles]

Great few weeks for Louth football.