Offaly 2-25 Dublin 1-15: Talisman forward Shane Dooley crowned his 100th Offaly appearance with 1-5 as the Faithful County pulled off a surprise Allianz hurling league win.

Offaly 3-11

New Offaly hurling manager Kevin Martin has admitted his players’ confidence needs to be rebuilt after a disastrous few years and several ‘thrashings’.

Cuala (Dublin) 1-23 Kilcormac-Killoughey (Offaly) 1-9: If it wasn’t for Mattie Kenny’s forensic attention to detail, we mightn’t read too much into the curious, 26-point score-lines that his Cuala team has been racking up lately.

Con O'Callaghan's early goal in Portlaoise set AIB All-Ireland club hurling title holders Cuala on their way to a big win and back-to-back provincial titles.

Kilcormac-Killoughey will contest their third Leinster senior club hurling final in six seasons after they recorded a landslide win over Mount Leinster Rangers of Carlow yesterday afternoon, but a straight red card to county midfielder Cillian Kiely will be a huge blow to their chances of upsetting All-Ireland champions Cuala on Sunday week.

New Offaly hurling manager Kevin Martin has admitted that the 2018 Championship will be particularly punishing on players.

Offaly manager Eamonn Kelly accepts they have been a bogey team for Limerick in recent years but expects that will count against them in Tullamore on Sunday.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-21 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-14 (AET)

Raharney 1-8 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-13

Kilcormac Killoughey (Offaly) 2-13 Shelmaliers (Wexford) 0-18 (AET)

A 71st minute goal saw Offaly rob victory at the death with a two-point win over Antrim in the All-Ireland SHC qualifiers at Ballycastle this afternoon.

LEINSTER SHC QUARTER-FINAL:

Brian Whelahan is no stranger to making history.

Offaly 3-19 Kerry 0-14

Offaly 3-19 Kerry 0-14

Cork 1-24 Offaly 1-18

Cork 1-24 Offaly 1-18

Wexford 2-19 Offaly 2-13

Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-21 Birr 1-14

Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-19 Seir Kieran 2-10

Daithí Regan and Johnny Pilkington may have soldiered together for years as midfield partners for both Birr and Offaly, but they’ll be in opposition next weekend when Regan’s Shinrone meet Pilkington’s Birr side in the quarter-finals of the Offaly SHC.

Waterford veteran Tony Browne is hopeful of playing his first county hurling of the year in Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier clash with Westmeath in Cusack Park (5pm).

Shane Lowry’s allegiance to his native Offaly is almost as well-known as his golfing exploits and the Clara man believes the county’s hopes of resurrecting a glorious past would be improved if they returned to the days of the dual player.

In a unique position to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two finalists in the All-Ireland club senior hurling final in Croke Park this Sunday are PJ O’Mullan and Seamus Quinn.

Skill and discipline are the main ingredients in any successful side but top class work-rate and effort are also vital components.

Kilcormac/Killoughey 2-12 Rathdowney/Errill 0-14

Dinny Cahill just ‘loves the buzz’.

St Rynagh’s and Kilcormac/Killoughey will clash in an Offaly SHC final for the first time after they registered penultimate round victories over Shinrone and Birr, respectively, in Tullamore yesterday.

Galway came to Croke Park on Sunday with a game plan and took the final to Kilkenny from the throw-in.

Cork 1-26 Offaly 2-16

Both Cork and Offaly have made changes for Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC Phase II qualifier at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Offaly manager Ollie Baker has refreshed his team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC second phase qualifier against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 7pm).

Galway 5-23 Offaly 3-15

Offaly manager Ollie Baker has named an unchanged team to face Galway in Sunday's Leinster SHC semi-final in Portlaoise (throw-in 2pm).

Wexford manager Liam Dunne and his Offaly counterpart Ollie Baker have selected their teams for Saturday's Leinster SHC quarter-final at O'Connor Park (throw-in 7pm).

An “extensive file” is being prepared by gardaí in a case where a man is charged with producing a slash hook at a primary school last month.

Twelve months on from revealing he used a synthetic hurley, Ryan O’Dwyer is still playing with the Cúl Tec product and swears by it.

There was drama at the end of this high-scoring Allianz Hurling League game in the floodlit Gaelic Grounds on Saturday evening with Shane Dooley converting a controversial late penalty to secure a share of spoils for Offaly.

Limerick 2-16 Offaly 4-10

Three people have appeared in court in Co Clare, charged in connection with an incident outside a primary school in Ennis yesterday.

Offaly 1-22 Antrim 1-17