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Weekend GAA round up

Ulster SFC preliminary round

Donegal 1-13 Tyrone 1-10

Leinster SFC preliminary round

Westmeath 3-14 Louth 0-16

Laois 3-16 Carlow 0-8

Longford 0-16 Offaly 0-13

Connacht SFC quarter-final

Galway 1-13 Leitrim 0-8

MICHAEL Murphy kicked three points in the closing 13 minutes as Donegal edged a fascinating Ulster Senior Football clash at Ballybofey.

In the last quarter Donegal's Neil Gallagher and Tyrone's Sean Cavanagh were sent off during an edgy encounter.

Donegal started brightly scoring four points without reply, but Tyrone improved as the first-half wore on with Darren McCurry grabbing a fine goal.

But Martin McElhinney replied with a major for Donegal, who went in 1-8 to 1-6 ahead at the break.

Connor McAliskey impressed for Tyrone after the restart, but the teams were level at 1-10 each before Murphy decided the issue.

In Drogheda John Heslin was the star of the show for Westmeath, who struck three second-half goals to defeat Louth.

Callum McCormack, Shane Dempsey, and Ray Connellan struck goals for Tom Cribbin's team improving midlanders'.

Longford staged a dramatic recovery to beat Offaly at Tullamore on Saturday evening.

Jack Sheedy's side trailed by seven points at one stage, but Brian Kavanagh's free-taking spearheaded the revival.

At Netwatch Cullen Park Laois were far too classy for Carlow as Donie Kingston scored 1-5.

Out west at Carrick-on-Shannon Galway were never in any trouble against Leitrim as Damien Comer netted a goal and Paul Conroy rifled over six points.