A HUGE boost for the Munster hurling champions as Eoin Kelly makes his first appearance of the year for Tipperary in Sunday’s championship clash with Cork at Semple Stadium.

IT’S been a frustrating start to this season for Kilkenny full-back Noel Hickey.

RITCHIE HOGAN comes into the Kilkenny team at right half forward for tomorrow’s Allianz NHL final against Tipperary at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

TEN of the Cork team that started in last August’s semi-final defeat to Kilkenny, were named in the starting 15 last night for Cork’s NHL Division One trip to Clare on Sunday.

A YOUNG footballer, Micheal Roche, from the Glynn-Barntown club, has successfully appealed against a 48-week ban for an alleged assault on a referee in a minor club game in Wexford.

DUBLIN will have to plan without full-back Kevin Ryan — out with a hamstring injury — for their Allianz NHL league clash with Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. But the Dubs are hopeful centre-back Tomás Brady and midfielder Johnny McCaffrey will have recovered from knocks sustained when, respectively, assisting Na Fianna and winners Lucan Sarsfields in the Dublin U-21HC final last Saturday.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 1-16 St Anne’s (Rathangan) 1-11

ALL-IRELAND hurling champions Kilkenny make three changes in personnel and five positional switches from the win over Offaly for tomorrow’s Leinster hurling final with an unchanged Wexford.

FERMANAGH manager Malachy O’Rourke has kept faith with the side that defeated Monaghan for Saturday’s Ulster SFC semi-final against Derry at Healy Park, Omagh (6pm).

THE Cork senior hurling selectors have named the same starting 15 that took the field against Waterford in last weekend’s thrilling All-Ireland SHC quarter-final at Croke Park for Sunday’s replay at Headquarters.

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.

NATIONAL LEAGUE champions Kilkenny have made wholesale changes on their team to play Galway in the All Ireland Hurling quarter-final in Thurles on Saturday.

DARREN O’SULLIVAN, the 20-year-old whiz kid from Glenbeigh, will make his provincial senior championship debut when Kerry take on Tipperary in the Bank of Ireland Munster SFC semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney on Sunday.

Wexford 2-31 Laois 3-14

KEN McGRATH is set to make his first start for Waterford in the current National Hurling League campaign when the Decies make the long trip north to Portaferry to take on pointless Down, on Sunday.

A MASTER class in scoring by full-forward Rory Jacob set Wexford up for a deserved eight-point victory in a competitive and sometimes fractious NHL Division 1A tie at Wexford Park yesterday.

BRIAN MURPHY and Tom Kenny are to return to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz NHL clash with Waterford at Pairc Uí Rinn.

Waterford 1-13 Wexford 0-14

UCD 0-15 Oulart-the-Ballagh 1-9

PAUL CARLEY is recalled to the Wexford team for Sunday’s Guinness Leinster SHC final against Kilkenny at Croke Park.

Wexford 2-19, Tipperary 2-15

Munster 1-21 Leinster 0-13

CORK are restricted to just two representatives - Ronan Curran and Joe Deane - on the Munster team to face Leinster in the M. Donnelly Interprovincial hurling semi-final in Croke Park on Sunday (12.15pm).

Oulart-The-Ballagh 1-17 Rathnure 1-10

WIT 1-15 Comeragh Gaels 1-7

Wexford 2-12 Offaly 1-11

WEXFORD manager John Conran has given a vote of confidence to the side which defeated Kilkenny for Sunday’s Leinster SHC final against Offaly.

Wexford 4-16 Cork 2-18

THE Mount Sion duo of goalkeeper Ian O’Regan and corner-forward Sean Ryan are the Waterford debutants in tomorrow’s NHL showdown with champions Kilkenny at Nowlan Park.

Dublin 0-16 Wexford 0-10

DARA RYAN is a surprise choice at centre-forward on the Wexford team to play Kilkenny in Sunday’s Guinness Leinster hurling final in Croke Park.

Waterford IT 0-13

WIT 1-17

Waterford IT 3-16 Galway/Mayo IT 1-6

Coláiste na Scéilge 3-15

Wexford 2-16