Offaly 0-15 Waterford 0-10 OFFALY WILL not get carried away despite deservedly beating Waterford in O'Connor Park on Saturday evening. Offaly owed a lot to forward Niall McNamee, who kicked five points, three from play.

Gary Hurney caused the Offaly defence a lot of problems but the visitors couldn’t get enough ball into him.Waterford trailed by 0-4 to 0-3 after 20 minutes but Offaly quickly went 0-6 to 0-3 clear and by half-time led 0-9 to 0-6. Offaly quickly broke for the finish line and Ciarán McManus and Graham Guilfoyle put them five clear and Waterford never looked like over turning that deficit.

OFFALY:A Mulhall; B Darby, S Brady, S Pender; N Darby, R Brady (0-1, free), K Slattery; R Dalton, J Coughlan; G Guilfoyle (0-2), B Connor (0-1), C McManus (0-3, one free, one 45); K Casey (0-1), A Sullivan (0-2), N McNamee (0-5, two frees). Subs:P McConway for Slattery (25 mins), J Reynolds for Guilfoyle (54 mins), S Ryan for Coughlan (59 mins), A McNamee for Casey (69 mins).

WATERFORD:T Wall; M O'Gorman, T O'Gorman, K Connerry; N Hennessy, S Briggs (0-1), J Phelan; M Ahearne, K Power; W Hennessy, C McGrath (0-2), B Wall; M Donnelly (0-1), G Hurney (0-5, three frees), P Hurney (0-1). Subs:C Phelan for Connerry (33 mins), S Cunningham for P Hurney (54 mins), L O'Lionain for Hennessy (44 mins), J Hurney for Hennessy (58 mins), C O'Keeffe for McGrath (67 mins).

Referee:A Mangan (Kerry).