Goals galore as Niall Hurley leads Mayo minors past Kildare

The Connacht champions looked set to run out easy winners when they led by 11 points after 54 minutes, but the Lilywhites came roaring back into contention with late goals, setting up a grandstand finish.

Galway’s Tomas Farthing and Niall Hurley of Mayo. ©INPHO/James Crombie

Mayo 3-18 Kildare 3-12 

THIS All-Ireland Minor football championship quarter-final ended in a welter of excitement as Mayo withstood a late Kildare rally at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.