The Higher Level GAA competitions are coming into the closing stages now in the coming weeks and there are plenty of Laois players involved.
The Sigerson Cup semi finals took place last night with lads from the O’Moore county playing in both.
Killian Roche has made a dream start to 2024 with the Laois senior footballers and that continued in a different jersey for him last night.
He was between the sticks for UCD who battled against UL in SETU Carlow.
While Roche didn’t score, his side won 2-12 to 1-14 to book their place in the final.
There could have been Laois representation on both teams in the final but Maynooth were beaten by Jordanstown in the other game.
Emo’s Sean Greene was centre back for the Kildare university who lost out by 1-13 to 0-11.
The final between Ulster University and UCD will take place on Wednesday and will be shown live on TG4.
In the Fitzgibbon Cup, they are down to the semi final stage and Laois are represented on two of the teams.
Ballinakill’s Ian Shanahan is on the panel with University of Limerick and they will take on University of Galway on Wednesday.
Trumera’s Finnian O’Connor is on the Mary Immaculate College panel that are up against SETU Waterford.
The latter knocked out SETU Carlow in a ding-dong quarter final this week.
Carlow were managed by Seamus Cheddar Plunkett and had huge Laois representation – Tomás Keyes (Camross), Joe Phelan (Castletown), Gearóid Lynch (Ballinakill), Dwane Palmer (Camross), Ryan Mullaney (Castletown), Aaron Dunphy (Borris-Kilcotton) and Brandon McGinley (Rathdowney-Errill).
Meanwhile, at Fresher’s level, TUS defeated MIC to reach the quarter final of the competition this week.
They won 0-24 to 3-14 with Camross duo Ben Deegan and Eoghan Cuddy starring for TUS.
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