The GAA All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship was launched today at the Dunloy GAA club in the Glens of Antrim by GAA President Christy Cooney.

MAYO’S Dublin supporters’ club has rejected notions of financial impropriety.

IT happened nearly seven years ago now on February 14, 2004 in an All-Ireland semi-final, but the memory still haunts O’Loughlin Gaels’ towering centre-back Brian Hogan.

ST Gall’s and Portlaoise are the only two clubs in contention to retain their provincial titles as the action in this year’s AIB All-Ireland Club Championships gets cranked up a few notches in the coming weeks.

OLLIE CANNING has promised there will be no loose talk about three-in-a-rows in the Portumna camp before next month’s All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling final against Kilkenny’s Ballyhale Shamrocks.

CAPTAIN Shane Kavanagh claimed the Walsh Cup for the first time on Galway’s behalf and then declared the Tribesmen want to stay in Leinster permanently.

DUNLOY (Antrim) 0-12 PORTUMNA (Galway) 2-18

Tomorrow: All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final: Newtownshandrum (Cork) v Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny), Thurles, 2.30pm.

WHO would envy Paddy Richmond this Sunday as his club, Dunloy Cuchullains, take on reigning champions Portumna in the All-Ireland club hurling semi-final, in Dublin’s Parnell Park?

THE GAA has not ruled out mimicking other codes like Premier League soccer by putting players’ names on the backs of their jerseys.

ROSCOMMON GAA suffered a massive loss of 25% — over €500,000 — in its income during 2009 as the recession hit hard.

WHEN is enough, enough? When does greed become a vice? Today, Portumna bid for their third All-Ireland senior club hurling title in four years, Waterford’s De La Salle are trying to win their first.

Birr (Offaly) 0-17 Dunloy (Antrim) 0-9

There are seven players from Antrim in the selected Ulster team for tomorrow's M Donnelly Interprovincial hurling semi-final against Connacht at Ballybofey, throw-in 6pm.

New York 1-14 Antrim 2-20, Canton

A LATE bid to have UCD hurlers banned from participating in the 2006 Dublin county championship seems doomed to fail.

THE machines were silent in the O’Connor Hurley Manufacturing Plant in Newtownshandrum yesterday morning, after the club’s exciting Munster club hurling win in Thurles on Sunday, the saws, planers, sanding machines lying idle, but the planning goes on.

New Antrim manager Jim McKernan wants retired midfielder Jim Connolly to go back on his decision to quit the inter-county hurling.

THERE is growing concern in Clare that outstanding full-back Brian Lohan could miss the opening round of the Munster championship against Waterford on May 16.

THE world of GAA was stunned yesterday by the sudden death of Antrim county hurler Frankie McMullen. The 29-year-old was one of four brothers who played for Dunloy in the St Patrick's Day club championship final against Cork winners Newtownshandrum.

Dunloy 1-6 Newtownshandrum 0-17

Dunloy (Antrim) 0-2 Newtownshandrum (Cork) 0-7

DUNLOY manager Sean McLean has named the starting 15 given the task of bringing the Tommy Moore Cup to the Cuchullain club at the fourth time of asking.

In Dunloy, they speak of the teams who almost made it — and vow not to be one of them.Mark Gallagher visited the Antrim village where hurling is king.

CONOR CUNNING is a bit of an outsider in the Dunloy team. Well not outsider exactly — when you come from a Catholic village of a little over 1,000 people in north Antrim, you can’t really be an outsider. Particularly if you happen to be a hurler.

Dunloy defender Greg O'Kane has got the go ahead to take part in tomorrow's All-Ireland club hurling final against Newtownshandrum.

IT is ironic that even as four very typical GAA units prepare for the most special of all GAA club days, the rank and file members throughout the considerable GAA world who make up those clubs will be denied a very basic right - the right to debate an issue that has risen to the forefront of GAA thinking.

Newtownshandrum skipper John McCarthy has picked out club and county star Ben O'Connor as one to watch in their St Patrick's Day decider against Dunloy.

All-Ireland club hurling finalists Dunloy have been dealt a crushing blow with the news that Greg O'Kane will miss the March 17 decider.

GAC officials will conclude their investigations into the ill-tempered NFL tie between Kerry and Cork tomorrow night.

Portumna (Galway) 2-10 Dunloy (Antrim) 2-13

Dunloy hurling star Liam Richmond sustained a freak injury after falling off a ladder at work last weekend and will miss Sunday's club semi-final tie against Portumna.

ALL four provinces will be represented in tomorrow’s All-Ireland club camogie championship finals at Cusack Park, Mullingar.

KILKENNY champions St Lachtain’s, Freshford meet Granagh/Ballingarry of Limerick in the semi-final of the All-Ireland senior camogie club championship in Freshford tomorrow, (2pm).

Birr 1-19 Dunloy 0-11

HE is the baby of the Dunloy team. But this Monday, in the All-Ireland club hurling final against reigning champions Birr, in front of a paying audience of over 30,000 in Croke Park and a live TV audience in the millions, 20-year-old Gareth McGhee will be in the most responsible position of all.

ENTRY to the AIB All-Ireland club championship finals in Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day, will be

After Dunloy's stunning defeat of Mount Sion in the AIB All-Ireland Club Hurling semi-final at Mullingar, the winner's captain Gary O'Kane is in the news again.

BIRR manager Pat Joe Whelahan is one of a number of high-profile personalities invited to a meeting of the GAA’s Games Administration Committee in Croke Park tonight.