All-Ireland Junior B Hurling final: Shanballymore 0-17 Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry 1-12

There was a time, back in the late 1990s and throughout most of the 2000s, when every Galway defeat was followed by plaintive calls from the vanquished westerners to change the system.

David Collins wasn’t surprised by Jonathan Glynn’s frank remarks in the aftermath of Galway’s sensational quarter-final win over Cork.

We’re still punch drunk from the latest round of Galway hurling cliche bingo… consistency.... never know which Galway will turn up… can they put two performances back to back… where should they play Joe Canning?

With not a scintilla of embarrassment or prompting, Cian Lynch regales you with the story of what happened to him the time his uncle Ciaran Carey fired over one of hurling’s most iconic scores. 

Limerick hurling’s bright young star Cian Lynch is capable of rolling with the punches at senior level, according to his Patrickswell club-mate Gary Kirby.

Cillian Kiely (Offaly)

Wicklow County Council’s legal team has asked that recordings of phone calls made at Bray Garda Station during the investigation into the deaths of two firefighters be made available to their inquest.

It was the game that convinced Brian Cody to turn the thermostat down — way down — on his relationship with Kilkenny’s players.

Oliver McKiernan continued his terrific run when saddling Any Bets to land the featured Kevin Broderick Memorial Handicap Chase at Listowel yesterday.

ALFA BEAT, successful in the race a year earlier, did the business again when storming to victory in yesterday’s Guinness Kerry National at Listowel.

COUNTY player Aonghus Callanan hit 0-5 from play as city side Liam Mellows, who won the last of their seven Galway SHC titles back in 1970, advanced to the quarter-finals at Athenry yesterday, seeing off Sarsfields 0-13 to 0-11.

GORT, runners-up two years ago and defeated in the semi-finals by Portumna last year, were surprisingly sent crashing out of this year’s Galway SHC title race when they lost to Tynagh Abbey-Duniry.

A FEW weeks ago in the quarter-final of the Leinster SHC between Galway and Wexford, we were treated to some magic.

A construction company has been fined €75,000 under the Health and Safety Act arising out of an accident at a building site where a man was killed after a steel bar fell onto him.

An English-registered construction company has been fined €250,000 for breaching safety regulations on a building site where a Monaghan drainage pipe layer died six years ago.

A health and safety inspector has revealed at the trial of a construction company charged with breaching safety regulations that three safety groups operated on a site where a drainage pipe layer died five years ago.

A building company has been fined €50,000 after a woman’s car was crushed by a load of steel mesh grids at a construction site just minutes after she had dropped a number of children at a nearby school.

KILKENNY 3-22 GALWAY 1-18

Galway will meet Kilkenny in the All-Ireland quarter-finals for the second successive year after this comfortable win over Antrim.

Galway will field a much-changed side in tomorrow afternoon's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Antrim (Pearse Stadium, throw-in 3pm).

Kinvara's Colm Callanan has beaten off competition from Aidan Ryan to start as Galway's goalkeeper in tomorrow's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Laois (Portlaoise, throw-in 7pm).

Wexford 1-16 Galway 0-14, Nowlan Park

Galway 3-25 Antrim 0-12

LEINSTER manager John Conran has drafted Kilkenny duo Jackie Tyrrell and Eoin Larkin into his side for tomorrow’s M Donnelly Inter-provincial hurling final against Connacht at Pearse Stadium.

Diarmuid Cloonan and Mark Kerins have been drafted into the Connacht side for Saturday's M Donnelly Interprovincial Hurling final against Leinster (Pearse Stadium, throw-in 4.45pm).

Galway manager Conor Hayes has made three changes to his side for tomorrow evening's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final with Kilkenny (Semple Stadium, throw-in 6pm).

Galway 0-10 Kilkenny 1-16

SO close they can almost touch it. Midleton face St Flannan’s at Ennis tomorrow in the Harty Cup final and want to end 11 years of waiting.

JERRY LISTON has been appointed as Chairman of the Irish Aviation Authority by the transport minister.

Galway will boast an unchanged line-up for Sunday's Erin All-Ireland under-21 hurling final against champions Kilkenny.

Whatever way you look at this afternoon's All-Ireland senior hurling final between champions Cork and pretenders to the throne Galway, it seems John Allen's Rebels will come out on top (Croke Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

GALWAY have selected the same fifteen which started the semi-final for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland senior hurling championship final with Cork at Croke Park.

All-Ireland champions Cork name their side for Sunday's Liam McCarthy Cup decider against Galway tonight, and it is expected to be an unchanged one.

CORK and Galway are almost certain to be unchanged for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland hurling final in Croke Park.

Galway 1-19 Cork 1-13

Niall Healy, the Galway seniors' three-goal hero against Kilkenny last weekend, has been included in the county's Under-21 line-up for tomorrow's All-Ireland U-21 hurling semi-final against Cork.

THEY obviously knew something the rest of us didn’t in Galway last week.

Jim O’Sullivan

DURING his legendary managerial career, Laois boss Mick O'Dwyer has always maintained the dictum of its "horses for courses."