Dublin and Offaly picked up first round wins this afternoon to move into the quarter-finals of the Leinster U20 football championship.

Dublin finished 1-17 to 1-7 winners of Wicklow in Aughrim, where the visitors recovered from an early goal concession to kick on for the 10-point win.

Adam Fearon cancelled out the home side’s early major from Eoin Darcy after three minutes and from there last year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists went on to lead by 1-8 to 1-5 at the break.

Ciaran Archer and Luke Swan were to the fore for the Dubs as they comfortably set-up a date with Longford next Saturday at Parnell Park.

In Dunleer, goals in each half from Sean Courtney proved vital in steering Offaly to a 2-6 to 0-9 victory over hosts Louth.

It was the Wee County that led at by 0-6 to 1-1 at the end of a drab opening half, but within four minutes of the restart Courtney had the ball in their net again as the Faithful men moved towards a last eight meeting with Kildare.

Dublin - J O’Neill; A Murphy (0-1), A Rafter, J Bannon; R Dwyer (0-1), A Waddick, A Fearon (1-0); K McGinnis, E Caulfield; M Lavin (0-1), L O’Dell (0-1), S Foran (0-1); C Archer (0-4, 1f), L Swan (0-3, 1f), K McKeon (0-2). Subs: A Quinn for A Fearon, P Purcell (0-2) for S Foran, C O’Reilly (0-1) for K McKeon, L Murphy Guinane for M Lavin, S O’Byrne Braiden for L O’Dell.

Wicklow - W Rodgers; T Moran, C O Gallobhair, C McDonald; Z Cullen, P O’Keane, G Fogarty; K Quinn (0-1), E Byrne (0-1); J Hedderman (0-1), O McGraynor, A Maher; M Ging (0-2), E Darcy (1-1, 0-1'45), J Keogh (0-1). Subs: C Coffey for J Hedderman, S Daly for O McGraynor, P Murray for A Maher, C Maguire for C Coffey, J Dunne for K Quinn.

Referee - J Hickey.

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Offaly - S O’Toole; F Dempsey, A Bolger, C Keena; L Pearson, A Bracken, A Brazil; B Carroll, C Donoghue; C Flynn (0-1), C Delaney (0-1), K McDermott; M Cunningham (0-1), S Courtney (2-0), A Kellaghan (0-3, 1f). Sub: S Flynn for C Delaney.

Louth - M McEneaney; D McKenny, P Lynch, B Butterly; A Connor, C Murphy, T Jackson; C Quigley, E Whelan; D Nally, C Keenan (0-1f), C McCaul; C Gillespie (0-6, 2f, 1m), G Stewart, L Matthews (0-2, 1f). Subs: S Healy for C Quigley, B Collier for E Whelan, C Lennon for C Gillespie, C Shevlin for P Lynch, D Malone for C McCaul.

Referee - B Tiernan.

 

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