Throughout the course of Kilkenny’s eight-game minor hurling championship campaign, there hasn’t always been great optimism about the team.

Limerick Institute of Technology 2-15 Cork Institute of Technology 3-11

LIMERICK have kept faith with the side that agonisingly lost the Allianz National Football League Division 2 final for next Sunday’s opening game in the Munster senior football championship against Cork at Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

St Brigid’s, Loughrea 1-13 Scoil Ruain, Killenaule 0-12

Scoil Ruane, Killenaule 3-9