{"id":470769,"date":"2026-05-06T06:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470769\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T06:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T06:02:15","slug":"kildare-turn-on-the-style-to-blitz-westmeath-and-march-into-leinster-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/470769\/","title":{"rendered":"Kildare turn on the style to blitz Westmeath and march into Leinster semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Leinster MFC quarter-finals: Kildare 5-15 Westmeath 0-12\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A general view of the pitch in Mullingar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3083853.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A general view of the pitch in Mullingar<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kildare\u2019s minor footballers gained a modicum of revenge for their seniors\u2019 loss to Westmeath two days earlier when they eased past a feeble home challenge in the Leinster quarter-final in ideal conditions in Mullingar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Lilywhites scored a remarkable five goals in a totally one-sided first half. They came via Cian Kehoe (second minute), Aidan Tobin (fifth), Liam Mescal (17th), Jack Doran (20th) and Jamie Flood (26th) as the visitors were given inordinate time and space to find the net. Tobin was particularly effective at centre half forward and he also kicked two fine points from play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leinster MFC quarter-finals: Kildare 5-15 Westmeath 0-12 A general view of the pitch in Mullingar Kildare\u2019s minor footballers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,35463,132,7179],"class_list":{"0":"post-470769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-kildare-gaa","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-westmeath-gaa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116526118207832780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}