There was plenty of U21 football action this afternoon.

In the Hastings Cup, Cavan defeated Westmeath by 1-16 to 2-10, while Leitrim were 2-14 to 2-8 winners over Offaly. Caoimhin O'Reilly scored 0-9 as Cavan booked their semi-final place with a deserved win in Moate.

Bryan Magee gave the visitors the perfect start with an early goal before Boidu Sayeh netted at the other end to leave a wasteful Westmeath trailing by 1-2 to 1-6 at the break. Two Robbie Curley frees halved the deficit after the restart, but with O'Reilly in unerring form, the Breffni boys surged clear as Ronan O'Toole's goal from a penalty proved to be too little, too late for the hosts.

In last night's games, first half goals from Shane Kenny and Aidan McElligott laid the foundations for Longford's 2-13 to 1-11 victory over Roscommon, while Meath romped to a 2-15 to 0-2 win over Wicklow in Ratoath. A Conor Moriarty goal gave Meath a 1-12 to 0-1 interval lead. Moriarty found the Wicklow net again in the second half and with fine tallies from Fionn Reilly 0-4, Sean Meade 0-3 and David McLoughlin 0-3 the home team recorded a comfortable win.

The lineup for the semi-finals is: Longford v Leitrim and Cavan v Meath.

In the Peter McNulty tournament, Laois beat Tipperary by 2-15 to 1-11, Clare pipped Kildare by 2-12 to 1-14 in Hawkfield, while Galway accounted for Carlow by 2-19 to 0-12. 

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