FOR a long time, this game was moving towards an apparently inevitable Kildare victory without the bite or intensity you expect from games between these two, no matter what’s at stake.

Kildare 1-14 Meath 1-12

IARLA TANNIAN and Galway produced a tour-de-force as they crushed 14-man Offaly in a one-sided Allianz NHL Division 1 encounter at blustery O’Connor Park yesterday.

Laois showed tremendous character to score three points in the final four minutes of extra time in their Leinster SFC quarter-final with Meath at Croke Park.