Doyle the hero for Kildare

Kildare 0-13 Laois 0-08

Kildare earned a morale-boosting win over Mick O'Dwyer's Laois in Newbridge, thanks to top scorer Johnny Doyle's haul of four points.

Kildare led by 0-06 to 0-04 at the change of ends, with Laois unlucky to lose full forward Stephen Kelly on a straight red card for an off-the-ball tussle with Michael Foley just before the interval.

In the second half, the experience of Glen Ryan playing as the extra man in the Kildare defence proved significant as the Lillywhites held on for a good victory.

Kildare led by 0-06 to 0-04 at the change of ends, with Laois unlucky to lose full forward Stephen Kelly on a straight red card after an incident with Kildare's Michael Foley just before the interval.

Tigerish corner-forward Doyle - with 1-17 already to his name in the last month - pushed the Lilywhites onto greater things after they led 0-06 to 0-04 at the break.

Ross Munnelly (0-04) and Chris Conway (0-03) kept O'Dwyer's men in the hunt, but they still fell to a second successive defeat.

And with Ross Glavin and Tadhg Fennin keeping the scoreboard ticking for Kildare - Laois were edged out.