Kildare to play their first Leinster SFC tie at Cedral St Conleths Park in almost 30 years
Cedral St. Conleth's Park will host a Leinster Senior Football Championship game for the first time in almost 30 years next April Photo: ©INPHO/Ben Brady
For the first since 1995, and only second time since 1989, Kildare will play a Leinster Senior Football Championship tie in Cedral St Conleths Park when they host Westmeath on the weekend of 12/13 April next year.
The game will be played just a couple of months short of 30 years since the last senior Leinster Football Championship game at the venue, when Louth were visitors late in May in 1995. Kildare will be hoping for better fortunes than that day as Louth left Newbridge as winners. Kildare also lost the previous Leinster Championship at the venue when Dublin were winners in 1989. You have to go back to 1987 for the last time Kildare won a Leinster Championship game in Cedral St Conleths Park when they beat Offaly in a quarter-final replay by 1-12 to 0-10.
Kildare are set to play their first game in front of the newly redeveloped main stand in a challenge game against Galway on Saturday 4 January and then will play three home games at the venue before that Championship clash against Westmeath.
