Wicklow 0-14 Carlow 0-7:WICKLOW HAVE joined Limerick, Clare and Waterford at the top of Division Four with six points following their double scores win over their neighbours in Aughrim yesterday.

The home team were playing with the wind advantage in the first half and they went on to lead by 0-7 to 0-3 at half time.

Carlow suffered a blow three minutes into the new half when Alan Curran was sent off on a second yellow card, and their problems were compounded six minutes from the end when Pádraig Murphy suffered a similar fate.

Wicklow had their best attacking spell in the final quarter when they fired over four unanswered points from Seanie Furlong, Ciarán Jones, Paul Cunningham and Paul Earls to underpin a victory that keeps their promotion hopes very much alive.

WICKLOW: M Travers; C Hyland, S Kelly, A Byrne; P McWalter (0-1), B McGrath, S Canavan (0-1); J Stafford, JP Dalton; L Glynn (0-2), T Hannon (0-1), R Finn (0-1); P Earls (0-2), S Furlong (0-3, one free), C Jones (0-2). Subs: P Cunningham (0-1) for Finn, P Dalton for Hannon, P Byrne for Jones.

CARLOW: M Hennessy; P Murphy, L Murphy, T Bolger; P Cashin, J Hayden, A Curran; K Doyle, J Murphy; W Minchin, S Gannon (0-2), John Doyle; E O’Toole, M Carpenter (0-2), J Kavanagh (0-3, frees). Subs: B Kavanagh for Bolger, B Murphy for O’Toole, C Nolan for J Kavanagh, S Redmond for Murphy, S Myers for Minchin.

Referee: Syl Doyle (Wexford).