Mark Timmons' daughter gets in gear for championship, even on communion day

Kathlyn Timmons put the boot down — in every sense. The nine-year-old daughter of Laois full-back Mark Timmons was supposed to be an absent figure from O’Moore Park on Saturday night. 

The “football crazy” youngster had been present at all seven of the county’s Division 2 league games this spring, but the small matter of her First Holy Communion on Saturday was to take priority over daddy’s 2016 championship opener against Wicklow.

With 11am mass at Askea having gone off without a hitch, and a heavily populated bouncy castle still standing upright in the Timmons’ back garden, Mark departed their Graiguecullen home at 5pm to make the 35-minute journey into Portlaoise for the 7pm throw-in.