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Nightmare stuff for Wicklow as Laois run amok in Leinster championship

Gap between grades too high at provincial level

The Wicklow camogie team who lost heavily to Laois in the Leinster Intermediate camogie championship quarter-final last weekend.

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The Wicklow adult camogie team found the jump from Junior to Intermediate level in the Leinster championship to be incredibly tough when they travelled to face Laois in Laois Hire O’Moore Park in Portlaoise last weekend.

A point in each half was all the Garden County side could manage against a Laois team that racked up a staggering 7-23 over the course of the hour.

Having won several Leinster Junior titles in recent years, Wicklow found themselves competing at the Intermediate level this season, but, going on this result, the gulf between the two grades is far too wide.

Wicklow: Holly Byrne; Naoise O’Neill, Kila Kenny, Alice Mulhall; Casey Kelly, Aoife Connolly, Aoife Campbell; Shannagh Goetelen, Ciara Wafer; Hannah Doyle, Laura Smyth, Shauna O’Shea; Isabelle Doyle, Ciara Connolly, Sophie Bermingham. Subs: Caitlin Hughes, Faye Corrigan, Aine Byrne, Poppie Rose Cullen Dunne, Daisie Summer Cullen Dunne, Kelly O’Neill, Kate Campbell, Thea Cullen, Emily Tyrrell, Grace Drumgoole, Sarah Lambe, Ciara Kennedy, Nicole Curran, Orlagh Waters, Katie Tyrrell.

Laois: Aedin Lowry; Sarah Creagh, Leah Daly, Fiona Scully; Aoife Finlay, Clodagh Tynan, Aoife Hyland; Liadan C Fennell, Alice Walsh; Rachael Deegan, Aimee Collier, Alva Cross; Susie Delaney, Kirsten Keenan, Eimear Hassett.