Reigning Galway SHC champions Liam Mellows will face Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry in the quarter-finals this year.

Gus Lohan is admirably content with not remembering everything but he does recall his first score for Clar

Few understand the Clare v Galway dynamic better than Gus Lohan, who hurled for both counties in the same season. There was county football played too, for Monaghan, and Gus’ switch from Cappataggle in Galway to Newmarket-on-Fergus in Clare paid rich dividend for the Banner a generation later, when sons Brian and Frank won two All-Ireland titles. Today, in Croke Park, a father and son will take some joy whatever the result.

Conor Kavanagh scored two goals for reigning champions Liam Mellows as they beat Castlegar 3-15 to 2-13 in the big city derby in Group 1 of the Galway SHC at Pearse Stadium.

The pride in Jeff Lynskey’s voice is unmistakable. 

A breakthrough is expected this week in the impasse which has held up the Galway SHC championship in a row over the eligibility of a player

Brian Cody has made four changes to the Kilkenny side for today’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A clash with Tipperary in Nowlan Park (throw-in 2pm).

Limerick scored a six-point win over Galway to progress to a first All-Ireland U21 hurling final since 2002.

In the second of a five-part series, we visit Cappataggle, Co Galway, where the closure of the post office led one retired schoolteacher to go on hunger strike in protest

Galway 0-23 Cork 0-14: After capturing their first All-Ireland Intermediate hurling title in 13 years, Saturday night was all about rest and recovery for the Galway hurlers ahead of a Sunday morning training session.

Galway clinched the All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship tonight, piling more misery on Cork in the process.

Kilburn Gaels (London) 0-11 Cappataggle (Galway) 0-10: AIB All-Ireland Club IHC semi-final: Kilburn Gaels remain in the hunt to become only the second London team to win the All-Ireland Club IHC crown after beating Cappataggle at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Galway goalkeeper James Skehill revealed yesterday he missed out on six weeks’ pay as a result of the shoulder injuries which ruined his ambitions in the All-Ireland hurlingfinal replay.

Kilkenny last night refused to comment on the appointment of Westmeath’s James McGrath for Sunday week’s All-Ireland SHC final against Galway.

If Galway manage to capture the Liam McCarthy Cup in three weeks' time, they will surely look back on yesterday's superb save by goalkeeper James Skehill as a key moment over the two games.

There’s always been an elitism in Galway hurling that influenced the way the county used to play.

Galway goalkeeper James Skehill has played his last league game this year after dislocating his shoulder during last Sunday's defeat to Waterford.

CORK manager Denis Walsh has introduced defensive newcomers Stephen McDonnell and Mark Ellis to his team for their Allianz Division 1 Hurling League match with Offaly at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. Glen Rovers player McDonnell gets the nod at right corner-back while Millstreet hurler Ellis will line out at centre-back.

IT’S a final. However, it’s not one either club is accustomed to, or one they crave to be involved in.

THERE is one game, and one game only, of any significance in this weekend’s final round of Division One NHL games – Dublin versus Limerick in Parnell Park.

Kilkenny 1-23 Galway 2-21

CORK will be looking to maintain an enviable record in the All-Ireland JFC and All-Ireland IHC when they face semi-final clashes in Portlaoise this afternoon.

It is the day of reckoning for Leinster hurling - a new dawn as Galway enter the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship today for the first time.

LOUTH attacker Aaron Hoey has been ruled out of his county’s Leinster SFC opener against Carlow at Parnell Park next Sunday after tearing a hamstring in training over the weekend.

Galway manager John McIntyre is sweating on the result of a scan tomorrow to see if James Skehill will play a part in Championship action this summer after the Cappataggle goalkeeper broke his finger in four places at the weekend.

A YOUNG footballer, Micheal Roche, from the Glynn-Barntown club, has successfully appealed against a 48-week ban for an alleged assault on a referee in a minor club game in Wexford.

THREE counties will be targeting rare doubles at Croke Park this weekend when the finals of the Intermediate and Junior hurling and football All-Ireland championships take centre stage at HQ.

KILKENNY will be short ten of their All-Ireland winning squad for their opening Allianz NHL game against Galway at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.