11am 12 July 2026
Kildare and District League, Senior Division
Arlington 0 Clonmullion 4 (att 30)
After the previous day's game in Galway I had hoped to see a Sunday morning game in the Mayo League. But with Mayo's Gaelic footballers in an all-Ireland semi-final the local soccer league postponed the weekend's matches.
But Mayo isn't the only junior league with a summer season, and I had a handful of games to choose from the Kildare and District League. I opted for the sole top division fixture.
Arlington play close to the small County Laois town of Portarlington, and at Castle Park have a good facility in a rural setting.
The main pitch runs parallel to a car park, and has concrete post-and-rail barriers along both sides. There are dugouts on the far side, and a corrugated iron shelter opposite which, while it might have been installed with spectators in mind, was utilised as a dugout by the visitors.
Clonmullion are clear at the top of the table, and once they went in front they were never in danger of dropping points at Arlington.
The home side matched the visitors for much of the first half, although they went behind after around 20 minutes and then conceded a second just before half-time.
Clonmullion added a third after the break, and soon after that Arlington's task became even harder when they had a player sent off for a second yellow card. The visitors wrapped up a comfortable win with a fourth goal.
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