Galway 3-21 Cork 4-13

Galway 3-21 Cork 4-13

Longford Slashers (Longford) 3-13 Rathnew (Wicklow) 0-10

Rathnew 3-09 Baltinglass 1-14

Glenealy 0-17 Bray Emmet’s 0-14

Wicklow 4-19 Mayo 3-10

Derry 1-11 Wicklow 1-10

Kildare 2-12 Wicklow 0-12

UCC 1-13 NUIG 0-14

Cratloe 1-14 Inagh/Kilnamona 0-14

London 4-18 Wicklow 1-17

Wicklow’s hurlers are back in the Christy Ring Cup final for the second year running after beating Meath by eight points in the semi-final at Arklow on Saturday.

Wicklow secured a Christy Ring Cup semi-final spot after a late scoring burst in Arklow on Saturday.

With two 13-point wins over Wicklow under their belt in the past year, Kerry were shocked by Casey O’Brien’s men in their opening defence of their Christy Ring Cup title at Arklow on Saturday.

Goals in the first and third quarters boosted Wicklow to a survival success over battling Down in the Allianz Hurling League Division 2A relegation play-off at Trim.

There was irony aplenty at O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday as Aaron Cunningham, son of Offaly coach Alan, landed the decisive 70th minute winning point as Clare maintained their 100% record in Division 1B of the Allianz NHL.

Carlow hurlers, the unbeaten leaders of Division 2A, had to rely on an injury-time point by substitute Shane Kavanagh to secure a draw with gutsy Wicklow in their final game at Aughrim yesterday.

Clare booked their place in the NHL Division 1B final after their fourth consecutive win of the campaign at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

A flood of scores in the second half helped Westmeath to a flattering 18-point win over a limited Wicklow side in last Saturday’s Hurling League Division 2 tie at Mullingar.

Clare had just too much power and speed for Laois at Portlaoise yesterday, but when one recalls the dreadful championship humiliation suffered by the Moores at the hands of Cork in the same venue last summer, there was plenty to be positive about formanager, Teddy McCarthy.

Kerry put their troubles behind them yesterday when they travelled to Aughrim to pick up the first points of the league.

Clare 2-22 Laois 2-13

Wicklow’s ace free-taker Jonathan O’Neill was back to near his best scoring form yesterday as his side secured a draw with Derry.

An injury to talisman Joe Canning took the gloss off Limerick IT’s impressive Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final victory in Moylish yesterday.

The Davy Fitzgerald managed LIT booked a home quarter-final in the Fitzgibbon Cup after a landslide win over St Patrick’s in Limerick yesterday.

Honours even at the end of a first-round Fitzgibbon Cup derby that never got off the ground at UL yesterday.

TIPPERARY recovered from a sluggish start to ease into the Waterford Crystal Cup senior hurling quarter-final by defeating Limerick IT at Dolla yesterday.

RED-HOT favourites Portlaoise had to wait until the second-half beforebeing able to impose their authority on a gallant Rathnew side in this quarter-final clash at O’Moore Park yesterday.

GLENEALY had to withstand a late goal rush by Carnew to secure their 12th SHC title at Aughrim yesterday.

THREE days of intensive training under the blue skies of Portugal paid a handsome dividend for Ballymun Kickhams who saw off the challenge of St Finbarr’s in the Division 1 final of the Bus Eireann Féile Peile final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

CONOR O’MAHONY returns to the Tipperary lineup for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare in the Gaelic Grounds in the only change from the side that defeated Cork last month. O’Mahony is named at centre-back with Padraic Maher moving to half-back and John O’Keeffe to the full-back line in place of Paddy Stapleton.

A STROLL at headquarters for Kerry on Saturday, a final they dominated from start to finish against a game but outclassed Wicklow side to win their first Christy Ring Cup title.

SHANE DOOLEY’S 68th minute goal from a powerfully struck 20m free ensured that Offaly gained a draw with Clare in Saturday’s high- scoring challenge match to mark the official opening of Crinkill GAA grounds and also saw Gerry Quinn’s return to the Banner fold.

Kerry 2-21 Wicklow 2-8

CLARE had six points to spare over neighbours Galway in a senior hurling challenge to mark the opening of a new pitch at Pairc Uí h-Aonghusa, Clooney-Quin last night.

CORK boss Denis Walsh placed several of the county’s upcoming talents under the microscope in Passage West yesterday and was rewarded with a thoroughly convincing victory in a senior hurling challenge against Clare.

UL 1-17 Limerick IT 2-11

THIS year’s Fitzgibbon Cup final will be a battle between two Limerick institutions after LIT edged out UCC in an enthralling semi-final at the Waterford IT Sports Campus in Carriganore yesterday.

LAST March when Limerick IT and NUI Galway met in the Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final in Dangan, they conjured up a spellbinding clash that yielded 49 scores over 80 minutes of pulsating action.

LIMERICK IT were deserving victors in this entertaining Fitzgibbon Cup tie at Belfield yesterday, but UCD will look on it as a mission accomplished too.

DESPITE horrendous weather conditions at floodlit Mourneabbey on Saturday, Cork and Clare still served up a decent game in this senior hurling challenge ahead of the commencement of the league next weekend.

LIMERICK IT nailed down a Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final berth at Moylish yesterday and left this year’s hosts on the brink of missing the finals weekend.

DENIS WALSH’S Cork development squad breezed past Davy Fitzgerald’s LIT side at a bitterly cold Mallow GAA complex last night by 5-15 to 2-14.