The Wexford hurling management and players want Jack Guiney more than he wants to be part of the county set-up, manager Liam Dunne has claimed.

Cork 0-27 Waterford 1-16: Ronan Dwane’s Cork were impressive eight-point winners over Waterford in yesterday’s Munster intermediate hurling championship semi-final.

Tipperary 0-17 Limerick 1-17

Laois County Board chairman Brian Allen says they will have to adopt "a more long-term approach" for the county's next senior hurling manager.

Brendan Fennelly may not have resigned as Laois senior hurling manager on Saturday, but his frustration at how his first year panned out is all too obvious.

MIDLETON CBS rescued their Dr Harty Cup campaign when Dillon Cahill grabbed a dramatic injury-time goal to force a draw against Our Lady’s Templemore in a pulsating quarter-final clash in Cahir yesterday afternoon.

Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) 1-16 Tullamore (Offaly) 1-8

THERE’S a bit of a pattern developing in the Munster and Leinster AIB provincial club senior hurling championships.

TAKE heart, all those of you approaching 50!

Sean Dempsey will step up from his U21 managerial role and take charge of the Laois senior footballers next season, it has been confirmed.

Niall Rigney will continue as manager of the Laois senior hurlers into 2009, it has emerged.

THIRTEEN-MAN Galway came with a late burst to deny Wexford in a thrilling All-Ireland MHC quarter-final at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Galway 1-26 Laois 0-09

Niall Rigney, a former selector under previous boss Damien Fox, will have his first outing this afternoon as Laois' interim manager as the O'Moore men take on Galway in the All-Ireland SHC qualifiers (Pearse Stadium, throw-in 3.30pm).

Laois hurling manager Damien Fox is due to meet county board officials tonight to discuss his future in the job.

It has emerged that the future of Damien Fox as Laois senior hurling manager may be in doubt with the Tullamore native set to meet with Laois County Board officials tomorrow.

Offaly 4-22 Laois 2-12

The Laois senior hurling team has been given a major boost ahead of their 2008 Walsh Cup opener against Wexford this weekend.

Laois manager Damien Fox has made seven changes in personnel to his team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier visit of Clare (Portlaoise, throw-in 3pm).

Laois will be facing a hungry Galway side on Saturday evening when the Tribesmen taste their first action of the 2007 championship in Portlaoise.

Offaly 1-26 Laois 0-10, Tullamore

Laois manager Damien Fox has named an unchanged team for Sunday's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Offaly (Tullamore, throw-in 3.30pm).

Laois senior hurling manager Damien Fox has made just one change to his side to face Limerick in tomorrow's National Hurling League play-off in Nenagh.

Laois 2-19 Wicklow 0-8

Laois hurling manager Damien Fox has made two changes in personnel to his team for tomorrow's NHL Division Two final against Wicklow at Semple Stadium (throw-in 2pm).

A two-goal blast from Sean McBride saw Derry get off the mark in NHL Division 2A this afternoon as they beat Armagh 2-13 to 0-9 at Celtic Park.

Damien Fox's Laois hurlers got their NHL Division 2A campaign off to a blistering start at O'Moore Park in Portlaoise today, with a facile 3-26 to 2-9 victory over Derry.

John Brophy hit the match-winning point in the 68th-minute as Laois gave the Dublin hurlers an early season shock at Rathdowney.

Damien Fox's reign as Laois hurling manager got off to a very satisfactory start as the midlanders ended Down's Walsh Cup hopes with a 2-15 to 1-9 defeat at Rathdowney.

READING the papers these days, you could be forgiven for thinking that dual players are almost an extinct species in the GAA. That may be true at inter-county level, but the same can’t be said for the club scene.