Kildare rack up five goals in Dungarvan thrashing

Five second half goals for Kildare saw them ease to a 24-point victory over Waterford in Dungarvan this evening with Darragh Kirwan impressing for the visitors.

Kildare, as you would expect, travelled down to Dungarvan as comfortable favourites and they stood up to that tag right from the off.

Darragh Kirwan's four first half points from play set the narrative for the afternoon as Kildare looked comfortable despite only leading by five at the break.

Waterford tried their best to keep up with their visitors throughout but Kildare were just too sharp in attack. Kevin Feely and Kirwan contributing six first half points between them.

Waterford, to their credit battled hard and limited Kildare to little in the way of goal chances in the opening half and with just five between the sides at the break left themselves with plenty to be positive about.

The positivity from the first half became a distant memory almost assoon as the second half restarted with Kildare hitting 1-04 in theopening ten minutes to put twelve between the sides.

The floodgates opened from that point on with Glenn Ryan’s sidehelping themselves to a further 4-03 in the remaining 25 minutes to record their second victory of their first Tailteann Cup campaign.

Second half goals from Woodgate, Flynn and two from impressive substitute Shane O’Sullivan saw Kildare stroll to victory in the end with Waterford no match for the Lilywhites.

Second half points for Waterford from the two Curry’s and Donie Fitzgerald was all the Munster men could muster up with a final scoreline of 5-15 to 0-06 in Dungarvan.

Both sides looked tentative in the opening minutes but it didn’t take Kildare long to loosen out with three points from play from Darragh Kirwan inside the opening ten minutes