Leinster SFC final

Ciarán Whelan didn’t quite do a Tomás Ó Sé on it, but he is seriously dubious about Kildare’s chances of beating Dublin in Sunday’s Leinster semi-final.

Kildare 0-16 Laois 0-16: Tommy Moolick capped off a barnstorming performance off the bench with a wonderful injury-time point to rescue a draw for Kildare at the end of a thoroughly entertaining Leinster SFC clash with Laois at O’Connor Park.

Laois and Kildare couldn’t be separated and have to meet again next Saturday at O’Connor Park, Tullamore after this rip-roaring Leinster championship clash.

Galway 3-12 Kildare 1-12: A performance symbolic of a regressive spring campaign, Kildare dropping to the league’s third tier with hardly a punch thrown in this deciding bout.

Allianz FL Division 2

Westmeath went top of the Allianz National Football Division 2 as they defeated Kildare 0-15 to 0-12 at Newbridge.

Kildare 1-15 Down 3-13: Allianz Football League Division 2: A crestfallen Jason Ryan was left to rue another late collapse by his Kildare players as they conceded two goals and a point in the space of a minute at the end of the game to throw away victory.

A blistering opening set Galway on their way to a 2-13 to 1-12 win over Meath in their Allianz Football League Division 2 tie today.

Down 3-13 Kildare 1-15

Kildare 0-19 Dublin 0-24: Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup final: For the second time in five years, Jason Ryan was left to rue the red card extra-time rule against Dublin, as the Dubs took full advantage of replacing dismissed Michael Darragh Macauley in the additional periods at Newbridge yesterday

Dublin ended Kildare’s recent dominance of the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup at the end of a hugely entertaining game that needed extra time to produce a definitive result.

Kildare 2-15 Dublin IT 0-9

Champions Kildare will play Dublin in the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup final in Newbridge next Sunday.

Kildare 0-21 UCD 1-05: Jason Ryan has raised the issue of college teams competing in the inter-county pre-season tournaments again after his side trounced UCD at St Conleth’s Park to set up a Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup semi-final against DIT on Sunday.

Dublin became the first team to qualify for the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup semi-finals after a hard earned victory over Offaly, with wins also for Maynooth University, Kildare, UCD, Meath, Westmeath, Wexford and DIT tonight.

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert has named an unchanged team for Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Mayo.

Kildare booked their place in Round 3B of the All-Ireland football qualifiers thanks to a 1-18 to 0-11 victory over Down in Newry.

Three years ago, Meath opened their Leinster championship campaign against Kildare at Croke Park, and Paddy O’Rourke was thrown the number 14 jersey. Fear and self-doubt consumed him.

LEINSTER SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Kildare belied much of the pre-match portents of doom to crush Louth in Croke Park and cruise to a Leinster semi-final date with either Meath or Carlow.

Kildare boss Jason Ryan has dismissed reports that experienced midfielder, Daryl Flynn has left the county panel.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

Kildare 0-15 Kerry 2-15, Newbridge

Kildare 1-10 Meath 0-09

Kildare 1-10 Meath 0-09

The pre-season just keeps getting better for Kildare manager Jason Ryan.

Kildare 3-20 Longford 0-6

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

Kildare 4-24 Athlone IT 0-12

All-Ireland champions Dublin and reigning O'Byrne Cup champions Kildare claimed first round wins in the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup today, while Longford, Wexford, Offaly, Meath and Wicklow were also victorious this afternoon.

Galway 2-10 Kildare 2-5

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1 SEMI-FINAL

Kildare 1-12 Longford 0-12

Kildare failed to score from the 42nd minute onwards against Longford but did enough to claim their first Cadbury Leinster Under-21 Football title since 2008, while Cavan and Donegal advanced to an Ulster final meeting on April 17.

They were very tentative early on, but once Kildare got going they had way too many gears for a committed but outgunned Offaly.

Kildare 0-19 Offaly 0-6

Andriú MacLochlainn has been drafted into the Kildare defence as the only change for the Lilywhites' Leinster SFC quarter-final against Offaly on Sunday.

The introduction of Kildare attacker Pádraig Fogarty as an impact substitute proved critical in settling yesterday’s Division 2 league final and no one needed to remind Tyrone boss Mickey Harte about the importance of having quality personnel in reserve.

A landmark day for the Kildare footballers and their manager Kieran McGeeney in Croke Park yesterday.

Kildare left Croke Park yesterday with national silverware on board their team bus for the first time in the Kieran McGeeney era.

One of the coldest days in Croke Park for a long time, a swirling wind, small crowd, muted atmosphere and a Division Two final lacking real Championship intensity.

Kildare 0-16 Tyrone 0-11

An exhibition of long-range shooting from Monaghan would have been the talking point from this Division 2 affair were it not for two ugly melees.