16 teams will be featured over seven weekends, from January to March, which includes 10 football games and five hurling.

It started with a text. Ciarán McDonald came home from a championship game with Aherlow when his phone chimed.

Stephen Hiney has had reconstructive surgery on the injured knee which ruled him out of the Dublin hurlers' Championship plans.

The Dublin hurlers' bandwagon rolled on at the Gaelic Grounds as they maintained their unbeaten record in NHL Division 1B.