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Westmeath Team Named For Leinster Football Championship Semi-Final

Friday, 16 July 2021 11:53

Jack Cooney sticks with team that dispatched Laois.

Westmeath have named their starting team as they look to reach a first Leinster Senior Football Championship final since 2016. 

They were defeated by Dublin that day, 2-19 to 0-10 points and it is highly possible that it'll be another showdown with the reigning All-Ireland champions if they succeed against Kildare. 

Jack Cooney has almost a full bill of health heading into the contest, Ciaran Martin a long term absentee following a ruptured achilles against Down in the league.

Westmeath starting XV:

Jason Daly; Jamie Gonoud, Kevin Maguire, Boidu Sayeh; James Dolan, Ronan Wallace, Sam McCartan; Ray Connellon, Sam Duncan; Denis Corroon, Ger Egan, David Lynch; Lorcan Dolan, John Heslin, Ronan O'Toole. 

Westmeath senior football team to take on Kildare on Sunday at 2PM at Croke Park in the Leinster Championship...

Posted by Westmeathgaaofficial on Friday, July 16, 2021

The lake county should be in buoyant mood after their second half dismantling of Laois while Kildare edged through a hard fought contest with neighbouring Offaly to reach this stage. 

Our Westmeath commentator Gerry Russell caught up with Jack Cooney ahead of the game:

The Lilywhites meanwhile have named their team this morning. 

It shows one change from the team which defeated the faithful, Conor Hartley comes in at wing-forward in place of Alex Beirne. 

Up to 18,000 fans will be in attendance at Croke Park for the game. 

 

 

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