Kilkenny hurling manager Brian Cody says he “doesn’t have the answers” to the ongoing fixture problems which have led to the formation of the Club Players Association (CPA), but says he has never asked the Kilkenny County Board to change a fixture in his time as Cats boss.

Cork play Kilkenny this evening in a senior hurling challenge in Páirc Uí Rinn (7pm), but the dominant narrative isn’t Cork’s preparations for the league final, or Brian Cody’s integration of new faces into the Cats’ set-up.

Fr Tommy Maher, who died on Tuesday evening, has been described as a "legendary figure in Kilkenny and in hurling generally" by Kilkenny County Board chairman Ned Quinn.

Two years down the line, Brian Cody isn’t so certain previous experience of going to an All-Ireland final replay will assist Kilkenny.

One change had been expected, but Brian Cody last night made three for tomorrow’s All-Ireland final from the side that started against Limerick.

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Brian Cody will be staying on as Kilkenny hurling manager, it was confirmed tonight.

The Kilkenny County Board have confirmed that John Tennyson has decided to retire from senior inter-county hurling.

Richie Power and Walter Walsh are unable to take their places in the Kilkenny team to face Tipperary in tomorrow’s Division 1 final in Nowlan Park — but Michael Fennelly and Michael Rice have been passed fit for the game.

The GAA is planning for a sell out crowd at Nowlan Park on Sunday for the Allianz Hurling League final.

The Kilkenny County Board have confirmed that Brian Cody is to take an enforced break from managing the county's senior hurling team.

GAA officials have reacted to Kilkenny’s strong criticism of the new sideline regulations, pointing to the successful implementation of those rules in the National Football League and rejecting suggestions there had not been consultation on the matter, stating that “consultation does not constitute a veto.”

Empires rise, and empires fall.

The GAA is being asked to provide funds to international clubs planning on visiting Ireland for The Gathering.

Brian Cody is to remain in charge of the Kilkenny senior hurlers, with the 2013 season being his 15th at the Cats' helm.

The Kilkenny senior football team will take no part in next year's Allianz Football League, following a decision made at County Board level.

Kilkenny Supporters’ Club secretary Jim Freeman

Kilkenny have admitted that Michael Rice is unlikely to be fit for next month's All-Ireland final against Galway.

Fears over Richie Power's knee injury were allayed this evening when it was confirmed that the Kilkenny forward could be back playing in six weeks' time.

Nowlan Park in Kilkenny could stage the upcoming Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final if certain results occur in this weekend's semi-finals.

Brian Cody and the Kilkenny County Board have apologised to Anthony Daly and the Dublin County Board for the unprovoked attack by a patron on the Clare native at Nowlan Park on Sunday.

CLARE County Board chairman Michael O’Neill has defended the decision to play Sunday’s senior hurling decider between Crusheen and Sixmilebridge in Cusack Park despite the horrendous weather conditions and insists no representative from either club made an attempt to get the game postponed.

The Leinster Council have decided to move Dublin's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Offaly from its original venue of Parnell Park to Croke Park.

QUESTION: when do you put away the All-Ireland trophy?

WATERFORD GAA secretary Timmy O’Keeffe has made a resolute defence of his highly controversial suggestion that the Déise should opt for Kilkenny’s Nowlan Park as the county’s Munster senior hurling championship venue in any future “home and away’’ arrangement they might enter into.

He may be entering his 13th season, which some might regard as being unlucky, but Kilkenny County Board had absolutely no misgivings when re-appointing Brian Cody as senior hurling manager last night.

HE may be entering his 13th season, which some might regard as being unlucky, but Kilkenny County Board had absolutely no misgivings when re-appointing Brian Cody as senior hurling manager last night.

Kilkenny's all-time top scorer Henry Shefflin has been ruled out of action for next month's All-Ireland Senior Hurling final, after Kilkenny officials confirmed the extent of the Ballyhale Shamrocks player's injury this evening.

THE backlash against the GAA’s efforts to end mass pitch invasions continues to intensify with a number of county chairmen yesterday expressing their reservations with recent attempts at on-field presentations.

GOOD FENCES make good neighbours. For Robert Frost, maybe. In Waterford and Kilkenny there’s no such thing as a barrier. Not when you have a Waterford man helping to sponsor the Kilkenny hurlers, and a Kilkenny hurler helping to dress the Waterford hurlers. Michael Moynihan tries to make sense of it.

Kilkenny's offer to have their National Hurling game against Cork refixed for this weekend has been rejected by the GAA's Central Competitions Control Committee.

Kilkenny County Board have tonight sensationally offered Cork a refixture of their National Hurling League tie, for this Sunday at either a venue in either of the two counties.

GAA PRESIDENT Nickey Brennan has implored the warring parties in the Cork dispute to ‘agree to an interim’ agreement in an effort to save their seasons.

Following consultation with members of the Management Committee and Central Competitions Control Committee, the GAA has issued a statement this lunch-time confirming the postponement of Sunday's triple bill of All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals at Croke Park.

The Kilkenny County Board have applied for planning permission to continue their redevelopment of their Nowlan Park base.

The Kilkenny County Board have succeeded in ridding Nowlan Park stadium, the Board's headquarters, of some meddling birds.

Babs Keating's second spell as Tipperary hurling manager begins tonight.