Home Sport GAA Laois Hurling Memory: Offaly, the side netting and last-minute winner in 1981

Laois Hurling Memory: Offaly, the side netting and last-minute winner in 1981

The Laois senior hurling team that played Offaly in the 1981 National Hurling League semi-final. They later lost controversially in the Leinster championship

Offaly 3-20 Laois 6-10 1981 Leinster SHC semi-final Imagine scoring 6-10 in a Leinster championship semi-final and not winning. Imagine being a point up with a minute of normal time remaining. Imagine having a chance to go ahead again after Offaly’s Pat Carroll had equalised only for young Laois centre-back John Delaney to be harshly…