Thirty hurlers who excelled in the summer's inaugural Christy Ring and Nicky Rackard Cup competitions are to be honoured at a function in Croke Park on Saturday, November 26.

LIMERICK manager Joe McKenna is standing by the team which drew with Tipperary last Sunday for Saturday's Guinness Munster senior hurling championship first round replay at the Gaelic Grounds.

TEAM captain Brian Dooher and leading scorer Stephen O’Neill have been recalled to the Tyrone team to meet Wexford in the semi final of the Allianz National Football League at Portlaoise on Sunday.

Antrim will face off against Down in the Ulster SHC final following wins for both counties in today's semi finals at Casement and Gaelic Park respectively.

Half-time: Antrim 1-08 Derry 0-07

Antrim hurling boss Dinny Cahill has handed Ulster championship debuts to two players for Sunday's clash with Derry.

Down head Westmeath by 0-1 on points difference in the Division 2A stakes after the visitors’ forward Andrew Mitchell missed a late scoring chance in a 1-15 to 2-12 draw at Ballygalget.

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD James Fitzpatrick will make his senior debut for Kilkenny for Sunday's NHL clash with Waterford at Nowlan Park.

A woman in the US who left a homeless man she hit with her car to die a slow death while lodged in her broken windscreen has been jailed for 50 years.

A JURY took less than an hour yesterday to convict a former nurse’s aide of murder for hitting a homeless man with her car, driving home with his mangled body in the windshield and leaving him to die in her garage.

A TEXAS woman pleaded not guilty yesterday to murdering a homeless man by striking him with her car on her way home and leaving him to die lodged in the windshield after parking in her garage.

LIMERICK are taking no chances ahead of their Bank of Ireland, Munster SFC semi-final clash with next-door neighbours Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis on Sunday next.

Derry conceded a goal in the third minute when Anthony O'Leary followed up a loose ball from a Kieran Stevenson save but Derry responded superbly as they took the game to Wexford.

Derry 1-12 2-12 Down

Ulster Champions Derry have named their team to face Galway in Sunday's All-Ireland Hurling Quarter-Final.

Derry 1-17 3-10 Down

Down 1-13 3-8 Derry

Ulster Champions Derry recall Michael Conway at centre-back for Sunday's Ulster Hurling Final against Down at Casement Park.

Wexford maintained their outside chance of gaining a semi-final spot with a resounding 22-point victory over a depleted Derry side in their Allianz Div 1B national hurling league game at Enniscorthy.