A hat-trick of goals from Sean O'Brien helped Wicklow to an unconvincing victory over Kilkenny in the Leinster JFC at Nowlan Park on Wednesday evening. Wicklow...4-9 Kilkenny...1-8 The visitors settled quickly and goals from former senior Jonathan Daniels and O'Brien inside the first eight minutes immediately put them in control. O'Brien's second major helped them to a 3-5 to 0-5 lead at the interval. Fielding their first team, Kilkenny got themselves back into contention when Sean Mahony netted within a minute of the restart. The Cats grew in confidence thereafter and outscored the opposition by 0-3 to 0-1 over the next 20 minutes to further increase the pressure on Wicklow. However, O'Brien's third goal in the 51st minute finally ended the Kilkenny challenge. Wicklow - S Nolan, P Higgins, A McLoughlin, T Burke, S O'Neill, B McGrath, J Bolger, N Gaffney, G Duffy 0-1, S Hurley 0-3, N Mernagah 0-1, D Hayden, C Kenny 0-1, S O'Brien 3-1, J Daniels 1-0. Subs - C Jones for Hayden, A Furlong 0-1 for Mernagh, P Healy 0-1 for Kenny, S Carthy for Daniels, E Burke for O'Neill. Kilkenny - JJ O'Sullivan, A Mackey, P Donovan, M Dowling, M Morrissey, A Murphy, N Roche, M Mahony, S Mahony 1-0, P Roche, D Herity, E Brennan 0-4, M Grace 0-3, P Maher, R Shore 0-1. Subs - P Sheehan for Shore, M Saunders for Grace, L Brennan for Morrissey. Tweet

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