Offaly 1-10 Dublin 2-15

Dublin deservedly secured their place in next month’s All Ireland U21 Hurling semi-final line up, overcoming Offaly to claim Leinster silverware in the process.

Offaly started well as Emmet Nolan earned a penalty that Oisín Kelly fired home after twelve minutes. Nolan also picked off a couple of excellent points from play to establish a 1-6 to 0-5 interval lead.

However a transformed Dublin side took just ninety seconds to eradicate that advantage and set themselves up with a strong foundation for victory.

Andrew Jamieson-Murphy posted the first of his four second half points from play, while Seán Treacy rattled the home net a little over a minute later.

The younger brother of Dublin senior hurler David Treacy struck again after forty minutes when he claimed a high ball and kicked it past Eoghan Cahill from eight metres to give Dublin their first lead of the game, and it was a lead that they never relinquished.

Scorers for Offaly: D Murray 0-5 (0-4f), O Kelly 1-0 pen, E Nolan 0-2, C Doughan (f) & L Langton 0-1 each.

Scorers for Dublin: S Treacy 2-2 (0-1f, 0-1 ’65), C Bennett (0-3f, 0-1 ’65) & A Jamieson-Murphy 0-4 each, J Malone 0-2, C Mac Gabhann, R McBride & S O’Ríain 0-1 each.

OFFALY: E Cahill; C Doughan, D O’Toole-Greene, P Delaney; D Healy, B Conneely, D Doughan; D Wyer, P Guinan; J O’Toole-Greene, D Murray, R Hughes; A Cleary, E Nolan, O Kelly.

Subs: C O’Brien for Healy (19), C Freeman for Cleary (44), JP Cleary for Hughes (51), L Langton for Wyer (53), E Parlon for Guinan (60+2)

DUBLIN: J Treacy; J Madden, E O’Donnell, C Hendricken; S Barrett, C Mac Gabhann, J Bellew; J Malone, M McCallion; A Jamieson-Murphy, R McBride, E Conroy; S Treacy, S O’Riain, C Bennett.

Subs: C Boland for McCallion (23), C O’Neill for Bennett (44), P O’Dea for Hendricken (51), F Ó’Ríain Broin for Malone (55), E McHugh for Conroy (57)

Referee: Alfie Devine (Westmeath)