Take a trip back to 2008 and 2009 when the Laois GAA senior football team took on Down in successive Gaelic Football All-Ireland Championship qualifying games in Portlaoise and Newry. Laois came out on the wrong side of both games with the 2008 match noted as a feisty affair, while the 2009 game was played in a downpour.
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1. 11 July 2009; Brian McDonald, Laois, in action against Kevin McKernan, Down. GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier, Round 2, Down v Laois, Pairc Esler, Newry, Co. Down. Picture credit: Oliver McVeigh / SPORTSFILE
Brian Beano McDonald, in action against Down in the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Qualifier, Round 2, at Pairc Esler, Newry in July 2009. | SPORTSFILE
2. Ronan Carr, Down, in action against Joe Higgins and Padraig Clancy, Laois.
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3. Ronan Carr, Down, in action against Padraig Clancy.
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4. Billy Sheehan of Laois in Pairc Esler, Newry.
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