A strong start in Carlow proved far more than just half the battle for Oulart-The Ballagh who went on to finally capture the AIB Leinster Club Hurling title that the club has craved.

Oulart The Ballagh (Wexford) 0-16 Clonkill (Westmeath) 0-8: Wexford champions Oulart The Ballagh moved into the Leinster Club hurling final with a comfortable eight-point victory over Westmeath champions Clonkill at a wet Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday. 

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 3-8 Clough-Ballacolla (Laois) 0-13 (AIB Leinster Club SHC): Oulart-The Ballagh made their expected advance to a Leinster Championship meeting with Clonkill of Westmeath but they were forced to survive a vigorous examination to do so.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 2-15 St Martin’s 0-13: The spirit of Oulart-the-Ballagh was once again evident when winning their sixth title in seven years with a comfortable eight-point victory over St Martin’s in the Wexford SHC final at Innovate Wexford Park yesterday afternoon.

Limerick 4-26 Wexford 1-11

Liam Dunne’s Wexford are on the march.

Not even extra time could separate Clare and Wexford as the sides played out a thrilling draw in Cusack Park.

Wexford 1-14 Dublin 0-22

Wexford went goal crazy as they secured a home Leinster championship semi-final against champions Dublin.

Offaly’s Niall McNamee has spoken of his embarrassment at seeing Tyrone’s state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Garvaghey and claimed more could be done by his own county board to facilitate their county teams.

Wexford 2-16 Kilkenny 4-22

WEXFORD 2-16 KILKENNY 4-22

Cork 2-24 Wexford 1-20

Approximately half of all Allianz League games in hurling and football operate at a loss, it has been revealed.

Limerick remain on course for promotion from Division 1B of the Allianz HL after a final-quarter scoring spree secured this win over Wexford.

Limerick 1-14 Wexford 2-8

Creggan Kickhams are to hold onto their All-Ireland JHC Club title, the CCCC ruled last night.

Dublin football manager Jim Gavin believes that the Allianz Football League should not begin until April.

Antrim 1-11 Wexford 0-15

Wexford 1-14 Dublin 1-15

Wexford 4-21 NUI Galway 0-8

Oulart the Ballagh 0-20 Clara 2-11

Oulart-the-Ballagh 3-12 Ferns St Aidan’s 1-16

Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-17 Shelmaliers 0-10

Wexford manager Liam Dunne has left dual star Lee Chin out of his side for Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier Phase 3 clash with Clare in Thurles on Saturday (5pm).

Kilcormac/Killoughey 1-12 Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-11

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 1-13 Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 1-12

Rory Jacob struck an early second-half goal to inspire Oulart-the-Ballagh to a fourth consecutive Wexford SHC title at the expense of Faythe Harriers at Wexford Park yesterday.

Cork 3-24 Wexford 1-17

As expected, Meath full-back Kevin Reilly has been ruled out of Sunday’s Leinster semi-final against Kildare.

Cyril Donnellan knows Galway can’t depend solely on Joe Canning if they are to pick up some championship silverware this year.

Teenager Jack Guiney proved an inspiration for Wexford as he struck 3-5 to help confine Laois to next year’s Allianz Hurling League Division 2A at Nowlan Park yesterday.

Clare booked their place in the NHL Division 1B final after their fourth consecutive win of the campaign at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

Stephen McDonnell and Eoin Cadogan have been brought back into the Cork defence by manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy for Sunday’s Division 1A hurling league tie against Kilkenny in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as his team attempts to bounce back from last Sunday’s defeat to Galway.

The Central Appeals Committee (CAC) last night upheld the Central Hearings Committee’s decision to force Monaghan to play Sunday’s Division 2 game against Galway at a neutral venue.

Limerick’s campaign is back on track following this impressive eight point victory over Wexford in their Division 1B clash at Wexford Park yesterday.

When the final whistle sounded, Wexford supporters paused before a huge cheer greeted their dramatic comeback having pulled off one of the great escapes at Wexford Park yesterday.

Eoin Cadogan will return from injury to make his first appearance of the year on Sunday for Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork hurling side after being named at left half-back in the side to face Dublin in the Allianz Hurling League Division 1A clash in Croke Park.

As the all-Galway Connacht team took the field in sunny Nowlan Park for this M Donnelly Interprovincial Championship hurling final yesterday, they passed under a sign in their dressing-room which stated, in bold red lettering, win, win, win.

Antrim, without their Loughgiel players, pulled off an exciting and thoroughly deserved victory over Wexford at Casement Park yesterday.

OULART-THE-BALLAGH produced a stunning performance to hold off a magnificent Clough-Ballacoola in this thrilling AIB Leinster Club SHC semi-final at Wexford Park yesterday.

IT’S taken four attempts in the last seven years, but Wexford champions Oulart-The Ballagh have finally turned over a Kilkenny team in the Leinster Club senior hurling championship.

RATHNURE tried hard but were unable to stop Oulart-the-Ballagh completing a three-in-a-row in a dour Wexford SHC final at Wexford Park yesterday.

Limerick 1-22 Wexford 2-13

Wexford 1-15 Kilkenny 1-26

LIMERICK have named just two of the starting team that lost to Cork last year for Sunday’s Munster semi-final against Waterford.

CLONOULTY-Rossmore defender John O’Keeffe will make his senior intercounty hurling championship debut in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final clash against Cork after being named in Tipperary’s starting side last night.

THE final round of games in the two top divisions of the Allianz Hurling League this weekend and plenty still to play for.

DUBLIN football defender Kevin Nolan says he and his team-mates train as hard as Premier League footballers.

IT’S A big weekend on the Allianz Hurling League front. In the first division especially, six teams are still in with a chance of making the final and all involved in games against each other, while the remaining two teams – Wexford and Offaly – meet in what will probably be the relegation decider.