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9th November 2014
05:14pm GMT

Mossy Quinn ships a big hit from Brian Mulligan.[/caption]
The All-Ireland champions ran riot in Laois against last year's beaten Leinster finalists.
Tommy Conroy's men sent out a warning shot to the rest of Ireland with another slick display that was up and running early on from the moment Diarmuid Connolly sent Mossy Quinn through on goals to finish.
The Laois men did work their way back into the tie with just one point separating them at the break but two second half goals courtesy of Shane Carthy's boot had Vinny's heading back up the road for Dublin unscathed.
Garrycastle (Westmeath) 1-11 Emmet Óg Killoe (Longford) 1-10
Garrycastle's reward for coming through this tense affair? A semi final meeting with Vincent's.
The Westmeath men are probably best placed to tackle the Dubs but they were made to work for this one as a brave Longford outfit - fired by a first half Paddy Thompson goal - were undone nine minutes from time by a Marc McCallon green flag.
Rhode (Offaly) 4-10 Navan O'Mahony's (Meath) 0-13
There was no hanging about for Rhode here as a four-goal display helped them put Navan to the sword en route to a semi pairing with Moorefield.
Two Glen O'Connell goals had them on their way before Niall McNamee and Brian Darby joined in on the act to secure the win.
Rathnew (Wicklow) 2-7 Moorefield (Kildare) 0-17
An on-fire Enda O'Connor led the way for a dominant Moorefield in this tie in Aughrim.
The Kildare champions needed seven white flags from their hit man O'Connor who kicked a number of long range frees to keep Moorefield ticking along nicely into the final four.
Ulster SFC quarter-finals
Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-11 Cavan Gaels (Cavan) 0-9
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Chrissy McKaigue shutting out another Cavan attack.[/caption]
In a battle between Mickey Moran and Peter Canavan, it was the Derry man and the Derry men who prevailed but they had to hang on and survive a late onslaught.
Slaughtneil looked to be on course for a cruising session when they took a 0-9 to 0-4 lead into the half time interval with centre forward Chrissy Bradley leading the line but the Owenbeg wind favoured the Cavan champions in the second half and Canavan's men rallied.
He was the hero on final day to dethrone Ballinderry a few weeks ago and he was arguably the hero again today, Gerald Bradley step forward. After the sides were separated by the minimum, the youngster's point late on - Slaughtneil's second of the half - helped them over the line and into a wide open semi-final with neither Crossmaglen or St. Gall's remaining in Ulster.
St. Eunan's (Donegal) 1-9 Roslea (Fermanagh) 0-6
Letterkenny cruised into the last four relatively unchallenged by their Fermanagh opponents.
Indeed, Roslea failed to score throughout the entire first half as Eunan's racked up 1-5, 1-4 coming from Conal Dunne - the goal from a penalty.
Even with 13 minutes remaining, Roslea had registered just once as the Donegal men coasted through.
Connacht SFC semi-finals
Ballintubber (Mayo) 3-10 St. Brigid's (Roscommon) 1-13
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Shane Curran congratulates Cillian O'Connor after the game.[/caption]
Ballintubber recorded a momentous victory over 2013 All-Ireland champions St. Brigid's to reach their first ever Connacht senior final.
Goals from Padraic O'Connor and Alan Plunkett had them ahead at the break 2-4 to 0-7 but, after the Roscommon men worked their way back into the reckoning at McHale Park, the Mayo champs needed a Cillian O'Connor goal nine minutes from time to see them through.
Aughwillan (Leitrim) 0-6 Corofin (Galway) 7 (seven) - 20 (twenty)
The steaming Galway champions justified their 1/50 favourties tag with another blistering performance that has seen them smash their way through the county and into the provincial decider.
The Leitrim men actually put up a decent fight of it in the first half but Corofin still managed a 0-11 to 0-4 advantage by the end of it.
Then, the floodgates opened. Lord knows they will find it tougher against Ballintubber but when Corofin are in the mood, it is bloody tough to get them out of it. A Michael Lundy hat-trick inspired their seven second half goals as they waltzed back out of Leitrim with 35 points to spare.
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