Tadhg Furlong wouldn’t usually be of a mind to do much the day after a game.

The only problem with throwing a party like this is that you don’t get to have the final say over the guest list.

Michael Moynihan considers the positives and negatives of the new look provincial hurling championships

The basic inequity of the promotion and relegation system applied to the new structure of the All-Ireland hurling championship is so obvious that it is impossible to ignore.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh stadium director Bob Ryan says “there’ll be no issue with the pitch” for tomorrow week’s Munster SHC opener between Cork and Clare at the venue.

We’re nearly there now, mercifully, writes Kieran Shannon.

Connacht counties have finally heeded the provincial secretary’s many warnings, with spending by counties on their flagship teams falling by 9% last year on the record high of €4.93m in 2016.

Martin Ennis has stepped down as manager of the Meath senior hurlers after three years in charge.

Galway have been refused permission to hold home games in the Leinster hurling championship, the Irish Examiner reports.

Galway’s future in the Leinster hurling championship has been placed in doubt with two clubs from the county submitting proposals to withdraw from the province in 2017 if they are not granted equal status.

In the stroll down Jones’s Road yesterday afternoon, the general consensus was that Dublin’s meeting with Longford in the Leinster football championship would be a rerun of Christians-Lions (Coliseum, vespers), with no guesses as to which side were going to be portraying the early converts, or the main course.

For the first time since 2008, Clare and Limerick will meet each other in the Munster senior hurling championship next season.

As a hurling fan, I find the group qualifier system in in the Leinster Hurling Championship amazing.

The Munster SFC seeding row took another dramatic twist last night as Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford threatened to pull out of the 2015 competition.

The GAA is on course for a hike in Championship attendances, with three of the four provincial councils estimating increases on last year’s numbers.

Henry Shefflin is “four, five, six weeks” away from a return to hurling action for Kilkenny, meaning he is unlikely to figure in this year’s Leinster hurling championship.

MICHAEL FENNELLY faces a race against time to recover from a broken hand in time for Kilkenny’s Leinster hurling championship opener next month.

THE GAA’s headquarters in Galway, Pearse Stadium, will not be available to Connacht to play Heineken Cup matches in the autumn should Eric Elwood’s side finally make it into Europe’s premier competition.

Hawk-eye score detection technology will be put on full trial during one of Dublin’s remaining Allianz Football League games at Croke Park.

DOUBTS have emerged about Galway’s continued participation in the Leinster hurling championship after a motion to include their minor and U-21 sides was met with a lukewarm response.

TOMORROW, Antrim’s second season in the Leinster hurling championship will commence far away from the bright lights of the main stage with a quarter-final tie against Offaly, and that suits Shane McNaughton just fine.

GALWAY and Antrim will remain in the Leinster Hurling Championship once their three-year trial comes to a close in 2011, according to GAA president Christy Cooney.

THE GAA’s top administrator, Páraic Duffy, has declared his full backing for the provincial championships – as well as the All-Ireland qualifier series which has done so much to undermine them.

THE mouth-watering Ulster SFC meeting of title hopefuls Derry and Armagh will kick start the 2010 championships on May 16.

A WEEK later than planned the draws for the 2010 provincial championships will be made this evening in Croke Park and shown live on RTÉ Two (8.25pm).

GAA ATTENDANCE figures for the season have exceeded all expectations, with director general Páraic Duffy indicating yesterday that numbers for the Championship have actually increased.

OVER 50 years after they came close to affiliating with the province, the Galway hurlers make their debut in the Leinster hurling championship on Sunday, when they play Laois in O’Moore Park.

THE GAA cannot afford to allow the All-Ireland hurling championship become “the preserve of a small number of teams,’’ according to Director General, Páraic Duffy.

THE expansion of the Leinster hurling championship will make it more competitive in the short-term, according to Dublin Secretary John Costello.

Leinster hurling championship, 2009 draw: Quarter-finals: Laois v Galway; Offaly v Wexford; Dublin v Antrim.

The Galway County Board has voted in favour of the county competing in the Leinster Hurling Championship from next year for a three-year trial period.

YOU can’t get away from 2004, it seems, whether the occasion of Wexford’s last Leinster hurling championship win over Kilkenny is raised either by players from either side or in direct response to media questions.

Cavan footballer Seanie Johnston and Dublin hurler David O'Callaghan have been named as the GPA Players of the Month for May.

Offaly hurler Brian Carroll and Wicklow footballer Leighton Glynn have been named as the GAA All Stars Players of the Month for May.

Aidan Fogerty has added to Brian Cody's injury worries ahead of Kilkenny's Leinster Hurling Championship semi-final against Offaly on Sunday week.

Dublin 3-21 Westmeath 0-11

Westmeath hurlers will be permitted to take part in next year’s Leinster Hurling Championship.

Angry fans pick up on some unusual aspects of Sunday’s Munster final. Like the train that “missed” Thurles station and the way the Munster Council are “skirting” – or should that be “kilting” – the issue of the choice of band at the game.