“It is becoming an elite association and they are just catering for inter-county, while and clubs, third-level, and second-level are all suffering.”

Dublin defender Eoghan O’Donnell has backed Ger Cunningham to remain in charge of the county’s senior hurlers, despite their disappointing championship campaign.

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A 21-year-old man on trial for murder told one of his friends that he had stabbed another man as they left a house party in the early hours of the morning, a murder trial jury heard today.