The Kingdom progress straight through to the All-Ireland quarter-finals while Louth head to the preliminary stage
The team that won by 14 points and the team that lost by 14 points both left Portlaoise happy enough on Sunday afternoon. Go figure.won as Kerry were expected to win, and will sit out next weekend having booked their passage straight to the halved the 28-point trimming they suffered to the same opposition at the same venue a year ago, and will head for the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals next weekend feeling pretty good about themselves.
The not so good for the Kingdom was the several goal chances Louth created, and Jack O’Connor will know a serious tightening up of his defence will be required before the bigger acreage of Croke Park. Early points from Joe O’Connor, Sean O’Shea and Tony Brosnan got Kerry up and running but then, seven minutes in, Donal McKenny gathered a high dropping ball over Tadhg Morley and slipped it past Shane Ryan to level the score.
Meanwhile, Kerry were happy enough absorb the pressure, counter attack quickly and pick off the points with scores from David Clifford , Paudie Clifford , Brian Ó Beaglaioch , Paul Murphy and Diarmuid O’Connor pushing Kerry to their 0-13 to 1-5 half time lead.Kerry’s Tadhg Morley celebrates scoring his sides second goal with David Clifford. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
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