Tyrone manager Mickey Harte will give debuts to three players in tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier clash with Offaly in O’Connor Park in Tullamore (3pm).

Kilkenny 2-17 Tipperary 0-20

Richie Power and Walter Walsh are unable to take their places in the Kilkenny team to face Tipperary in tomorrow’s Division 1 final in Nowlan Park — but Michael Fennelly and Michael Rice have been passed fit for the game.

Kilkenny 1-24 Galway 1-17

Kilkenny 1-24 Galway 1-17

Clare 1-15 Kilkenny 3-10,

Michael Rice will make his first start for Kilkenny tomorrow since suffering a horror hand injury in last year’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final victory over Tipperary.

Kilkenny 4-16 Limerick 1-16

A historic day in Croke Park yesterday, Galway crowned Leinster senior hurling champions for the first time after a first-half display of crushing dominance; a day that may also go down in history for another reason, however, the day an empire began to crumble.

Anthony Cunningham was left feeling distinctly “black and amber” after a weekend to forget was completed by a trouncing in Nowlan Park yesterday.

Cork 1-17 Kilkenny 1-15

John Mullane returns to the Waterford side for tomorrow’s crucial Allianz League Division 1A clash with Galway at Pearse Stadium (2.30pm).

As the all-Galway Connacht team took the field in sunny Nowlan Park for this M Donnelly Interprovincial Championship hurling final yesterday, they passed under a sign in their dressing-room which stated, in bold red lettering, win, win, win.

Another stroll in the park for All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in this Allianz Hurling League opener yesterday.

The GAA have declined to comment on Tommy Lyons’ allegation that he was asked to name his price in an interview for the Mayo job.

The powerbases of hurling in Leinster and Munster was reflected in the starting sides chosen by the respective managers Joe Dooley and Liam Sheedy for this Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship hurling semi-final in Nowlan Park yesterday.

A youthful Galway were given a lesson yesterday as Kilkenny swept them aside to claim the Walsh Cup at Pearse Stadium.

IRELAND 2-9 SCOTLAND 1-11

Ireland 1-16 Scotland 2-8

VICTORY for Kilkenny in front of less than 32,000 spectators in this dour All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park yesterday came with a repetitive theme.

A HURLING masterclass in Croke Park yesterday, mighty Kilkenny retaining their Leinster title (and setting a new record in the process, seven in a row) against a Dublin side whose challenge never even got to first base.

Kilkenny 4-17 Dublin 1-15

The Kilkenny team shows just one change from that which defeated Wexford in the semi-final to play Dublin in Sunday’s eagerly anticipated Leinster Hurling Final.

Wexford 1-15 Kilkenny 1-26

LIMERICK have named just two of the starting team that lost to Cork last year for Sunday’s Munster semi-final against Waterford.

IT WASN’T pretty, it wasn’t very competitive — in fact, truth be told, this was an ugly beast of an Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final in Croke Park yesterday, a one-sided affair that never got off the ground.

Dublin 0-22 Kilkenny 1-7

Kilkenny manager Brian Cody has announced his side to face Dublin in Sunday's Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

NO winners here.

CORK hurling manager Denis Walsh has rang the changes for his sides Allianz HL clash with Dublin at Páirc Ui Chaoimh tomorrow with 10 changes from the side surprisingly beaten away to Wexford a fortnight ago.

EVEN the second-half introduction of some of the heavy artillery failed to help Kilkenny outgun Dublin in a cracking Walsh Cup final at Parnell Park yesterday.

Dublin 2-17 Kilkenny 2-13

AT half-time in this Allianz NHL round two game in Nowlan Park yesterday it looked like Cork were heading for another terrible beating.

FAVOURITES Carrickshock survived the sternest of tests from Erin’s Own (Castlecomer) in the first of the semi finals of the Kilkenny SHC at Nowlan Park yesterday before emerging victorious by a two-point margin.

Tipperary 4-17 Kilkenny 1-18

Kilkenny 1-19 Galway 1-10

Eoin Larkin will line out at left half-forward for defending champions Kilkenny in tomorrow afternoon's Leinster SHC final against Galway at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

Kilkenny 4-19 Dublin 0-12, Croke Park

Kilkenny Senior Hurling manager Brian Cody has stuck with 10 of the side that started last year's All-Ireland final for Sunday's Leinster SHC semi-final against Dublin at Croke Park (2pm).

KILKENNY welcome back James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick and TJ Reid from the All-Ireland Club champions Ballyhale Shamrocks for the Allianz NHL Division One clash with Galway at Nowlan Park tomorrow.

THE KERRY management’s desire to employ Marc Ó Sé’s footballing talents in the half-back line gets another trial tomorrow in Tralee, with the youngest of the Gaeltacht brothers selected at right half-back for the clash with Mayo.

AS Kerry last night named their side for tomorrow’s vital Allianz NFL Division 1 clash with Derry at Fitzgerald Stadium (2.30pm), the Kerry County Board confirmed the news that former Kingdom great John Egan is being treated at Cork University Hospital following a recent accident at his home in Cork.

HURLING is on the cusp of a truly historic season as Kilkenny bid to achieve what no team in the GAA has done before and complete five-in-a-row of All-Ireland senior titles.

Kilkenny are without a number of first team regulars for tonight's Allianz NHL Division 1 opener against Tipperary at Semple Stadium (throw-in 7.30pm).