Dioralyte Walsh Cup semi-finals

WEXFORD 0-18 KILKENNY 2-11

GALWAY 1-24 DUBLIN 0-17

Wexford and Galway will contest the 2024 Walsh Cup Final after respective semi-final victories over Kilkenny and Dublin on Saturday afternoon.

A strong start was half the battle for Wexford as they opened up a four-point lead after 10 minutes and then stretched that advantage to six points by the break as Seamus Casey, Jack O’Connor, and Conor Hearne struck a flurry of scores.

Eoin Guilfoyle rattled a free to the back of the Exford net midway through the second-half to reduce the gap to three and then repeated the trick in extra-time to leave just a point between the teams, but Wexford hung on for the victory.

Evan Niland was the main man for Galway as they defeated Dublin comfortably enough in Parnell Park.

He struck 17 points, five of them from play, in what was a tour de force of beautiful ball striking.

A Jason Flynn goal helped Galway into a 1-11 to 0-7 half-time lead, and even at that stage you couldn’t see a way back for Dublin because they posed no real goal threat in attack.

They did have a brief period of dominance at the start of the second-half, but Niland’s unerring accuracy meant Galway were always able to stay out of arm’s reach.