A Championship opener at Dr Cullen Park may not have been one for the purists to salivate over, but the intrigue was constant and the reward for Carlow far greater than the immediacy of a Leinster quarter-final date with Dublin. That may be daunting, but it can wait, writes John Divilly.

Given the choice of which direction to point the car this eekend for a Championship fix, it was a straightforward answer for me. Carlow v Wexford, writes John Divilly.

Even with a sweeper protecting their defence, Louth just could not cope with the quality of Michael Quinlivan and Conor Sweeney, writes Declan Browne.

Kildare 0-9 Wexford 0-8: Cian O’Neill’s response when asked if this felt like a win, was telling.

Kildare just about held out at the end of a pedestrian game to set up a Leinster semi-final with Westmeath or Offaly.

PJ Banville has provided Wexford football boss David Power with a timely New Year boost.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 2-15 St Martin’s 0-13: The spirit of Oulart-the-Ballagh was once again evident when winning their sixth title in seven years with a comfortable eight-point victory over St Martin’s in the Wexford SHC final at Innovate Wexford Park yesterday afternoon.

Derry 1-16 Wexford 0-10: Two games Derry have won this summer, and both of them have been harder work than they ought to have been.

Wexford 2-16 Down 2-11: As the Wexford fans celebrated on the pitch, manager David Power took to the sanctuary of a spare dressing room to explain the emergence of his new look young charges while just down the corridor his Down counterpart Jim McCorry struggled with the bitter disappointment of defeat.

It was only after Donegal beat Armagh a fortnight ago that we realised the men of Tír Chonaill had never before beaten both Tyrone and the Orchard county in the same championship.

It’s amazing what a good dressing down from a manager does.

Westmeath produced a dream ten minutes to knock Wexford out of the Leinster football championship and set up a provincial semi-final for themselves against Meath in two week's time.

Tipperary 2-12 Wexford 2-15: It came too little, too late, to preserve Wexford’s place in Division 3 of the Allianz Football League but the Slaneysiders finally produced a second half to be proud of yesterday. 

Sligo 2-10, Wexford 1-8:

Wexford hurling manager Liam Dunne has put GAA chiefs in his sights and pulled the trigger.

Clare 1-16 Wexford 0-5: Allianz Football League Division 3: Promoted Clare got their Division 3 campaign off to a winning start at Miltown Malbay yesterday, easily dismissing the challenge of Wexford by 14 points.

Blonde attacker Diarmuid O’Keeffe kicked a stunning additional time point to hand St Anne’s the narrowest of victories, 2-12 to 2-11, over reigning champions St Martin’s in this Group A Wexford SFC game at Taghmon.

Laois 0-18 Wexford 0-17

Dublin 2-25 Wexford 1-12

Wexford and the Dubs. On a week like this, you would expect someone like Colm Morris to be reminded of the 2011 Leinster final at every turn. Turns out it isn’t just this week.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin will have all bases covered ahead of tomorrow’s Leinster semi-final

Wexford 1-15 Longford 1-13

Ian Ryan was Limerick’s hero with an injury-time winning goal to deny Wexford at the Gaelic Grounds.

UCD 2-12 Wexford 3-3

Dublin, DCU, Kildare, Athlone IT, Wicklow, Meath, Laois and UCD claimed wins in the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup tonight.

St Martin’s 1-08 Fethard 0-05

John Tubritt guided Fethard to a seven point victory (3-7 to 0-9) over Sarsfields in the Wexford SFC semi-final at Wexford Park yesterday.

It was a weekend of shocks in the Wexford SFC quarter-finals, with champions St. Anne’s (Rathangan) bowing out along with last year’s beaten finalists Castletown.

Wexford 2-8 Laois 0-16

Longford 0-16 Wexford 2-15 (AET)

Dual player Lee Chin's hopes of playing for either the Wexford footballers or hurlers in tomorrow's All-Ireland qualifiers look to have been dashed by injury.

Meath 0-18 Wexford 0-13

Lordy, but you’d have to feel for Wexford.

Meath 0-18 Wexford 0-13

There are two changes to the Meath defence for their Leinster SFC semi-final clash with Wexford at Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 2pm).

Louth 1-15 Wexford 2-13

Wexford 2-13 Louth 1-15

Laois 0-14 Wexford 1-08

Wexford 1-8 Laois 0-14

Wexford 0-16 Westmeath 4-12, Wexford Park

Wexford keeper full of praise for former boss who taught him so much, writes John Fogarty