Laois overpower Waterford to cruise to promotion from Division 4

The Laois senior footballers have been promoted to Allianz Football League Division 3 and qualified for the Division 4 league final in Croke Park next weekend.

That is after Justin McNulty's men absolutely obliterated Waterford by a 5-19 to 0-09 margin in the impressive SETU Waterford complex on Sunday afternoon.

Laois will now face Leitrim in the final in Croke Park next weekend. That is after they beat Tipperary while Wexford defeated Longford which saw Leitrim advance on the head-to-head rule.

This top v bottom clash was no contest from the start with Laois 20 points up before Waterford scored in the 25th minute.

Laois took six minutes to score but once Mark Barry put them ahead from distance, the game was over as a contest around 90 seconds later.

Kieran Lillis was fouled from the resulting kick out. Eoin Buggie found Mark Barry from the free who picked out Evan O’Carroll and he danced by several defenders before rattling the net.

And the green flag was waving soon again just after and again the move started with Lillis. He switched the play with a long kick pass and found Paul Kingston who played Eoin Lowry through on goal with a superb hand pass over his shoulder. Lowry took the unselfish action and passed the ball across the box to Mark Barry who fired home.

Paul Kingston and Shaun Fitzpatrick added points and Laois had the ball in the net again after 14 minutes. Evan O’Carroll kicked an arrow of a long pass to Paul Kingston who cut inside his man and found the onrushing Barry in space. The latter came onto the ball and smashed it in off the underside of the bar.

Barry added two points and Laois then had a fourth goal right at the mid-point of the first half. Waterford coughed up possession in their own half and Evan