Laois bounced back from last week's loss to Offaly to claim a runaway win over a well-below par Leitrim outfit in an extremely one-sided contest where the home supporters had to endure a difficult afternoon.
Laois played very well from start to finish and hardly put a foot wrong over the course of the 70 minutes.
In the opening half the midlanders were certainly firing on all cylinders and Leitrim were only chugging along.
The O'Moore County drew first blood when Ronan Coffey fired over two minutes in and they all but ended the game as a contest with three goals over the next seven minutes with Kevin Swayne, Pa Kirwan and Benny Carroll all finding the Leitrim net.
Laois continued to rule the roost over their shell-shocked hosts with Mark Barry shooting over five points, three coming from play and two from frees. Damon Larkin and Niall Corbett also added to the away side's tally.
Leitrim opened their account when Tom Prior fired over a 32nd-minute point, but Laois hit back with two Barry points, one from a placed ball, and one from James Kelly.
Prior was on target again before the break but Laois still led by a whopping 19 points at the interval, 3-12 to 0-02.
After the restart, the O'Moore men stretched their advantage with Kelly and Barry (free) whipping over a point each.
Keith Beirne opened his account when he answered with a 49th-minute Leitrim point before Laois's Kirwan hit the only two pointer of the game when he split the Leitrim posts from play in the 52nd minute.
Laois's Simon Fingleton and Leitrim's Keith Keegan swapped points at opposite ends but Justin McNulty's side continued in control right up to the end with Conor Brown, Corbett (free) and Larkin landing a point each.
Leitrim closed the scoring with two Darren Cox points.
KEY: tp - two-point score; tpf - two-point free; tpm - two-point mark
Leitrim: Daire O'Shea; Eoin McLoughlin, Kieran Clancy, Sean Harkin, Eanna McNamara, Mark Diffley, Jack Foley; Jack Flynn, Keith Keegan (0-01); Paul Honeyman, Conor Quinn, Riordan O'Rourke; Jordan Reynolds, Keith Beirne (0-01), Tom Prior (0-02).
Subs: James Rooney for S Harkin (19); Darren Cox (0-02) for Reynolds (30); Cathal McHugh for E McLoughlin (37), Stephen McLoughlin for Foley (42); David Feeney for O'Rourke (59).
Laois: Killian Roche; Ben Dempsey, Simon Fingleton (0-01), Trevor Collins; Pa Kirwan (1-02, 1tp), Brian Byrne, Seamus Lacey, Kevin Swayne (1-00), Damon Larkin (0-03); Daniel O'Reilly, Mark Barry (0-07, 0-05fs), James Kelly (0-02); Ronan Coffey (0-01), Benny Carroll (1-00), Niall Corbett (0-02, 0-01f).
Subs: Cathal Lee for Carroll (33); Jonah Kelly (0-01) for Barry (43); Fionn Holland for Swayne (46); John Brennan for Coffey (56): Conor Brown (0-01) for Roche (59).
Referee: Fergal Kelly (Longford).
Wicklow responded to last week's loss in London with a 3-17 to 1-19 win over Waterford in Aughrim.
Oisín McConville’s side had failed to fire in Ruislip but they had 2-10 on the board by the interval here with Waterford managing only four points in response.
The first 15 minutes were even enough with Wicklow 0-05 to 0-03 ahead, Kevin Quinn with two of those, but a brace of goals near the end of the half put them in control.
Eoin Darcy grabbed the first of those in the 33rd minute to move his side 1-10 to 0-04 ahead and there was still time for a second with Andy Maher finding the net.
When Mark Kenny grabbed a third goal in the 41st minute, the result was never in doubt.
Waterford did battle from there and after Dermot Ryan, Conor Murray and Jason Curry landed two-pointers, Dylan Guiry struck for a late goal as they closed the gap.
Meanwhile, in Division 4 of the Allianz Hurling League, Leitrim made it two wins from two with a 0-17 to 1-11 win in Longford, Joe Murray and Seán O’Riordan’s scores getting them over the line after a Ronan Courtney goal had put the hosts ahead midway through the second half.
Louth top the table though after a 0-25 to 2-07 win over Warwickshire at Páirc na hÉireann.
Darren Geoghegan, Sean Flynn and Leon Fox all scored freely as the Wee County pushed on in the second half with the sides leaving the field level at the break.
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