Ovens Boys NS 3-5 Ballygarvan Boys NS 1-4

THE first match of the 2006 Leinster senior hurling championship and the first shock.

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DAVID HOEY, Sean McMahon and Diarmuid McMahon look set to make their first Allianz NHL appearances with Clare this season when the Bannermen take on Galway in a top-of-the-table clash at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

THERE were welcome signs of a Dublin hurling renaissance at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday, even though Humphrey Kelleher's charges narrowly failed to overhaul Clare in an entertaining Allianz NHL Division 1 A contest.