The man who brought Brian Cody to his knees 11 years ago is worried about the expectation placed on Wexford by their own supporters ahead of Sunday’s Leinster semi-final.

Michael Fennelly’s immediate focus remains proving himself fit for Kilkenny’s meeting with Wexford this Sunday, but ongoing back trouble may force him to re-evaluate his career if the issue continues to compromise his hurling and his life outside it.

In yesterday’s Irish Examiner, we carried a transcript of Brian Cody’s absorbing interview with six journalists in the bar of the CityWest Hotel on Sunday morning.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn have received the go ahead to sue former Anglo Irish Bank chairman Seán FitzPatrick for damages.

Oulart the Ballagh 0-20 Clara 2-11

The family of bankrupt former billionaire Sean Quinn have today sought permission from the High Court to sue former Anglo Irish Bank Chairman Sean FitzPatrick for damages.

The family of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn plans to sue the former Anglo Irish Bank CEO David Drumm and 10 other former Anglo directors.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-17 Shelmaliers 0-10

Everywhere he goes, Michael Jacob is looking, searching for his daughter.

Turns out Christy Cooney was wrong after all.

Champions Oulart-the-Ballagh remain on course for a fourth title in-a-row when they defeated Shelmaliers (1-19 to 2-11) in their Pettitt’s Wexford SHC semi-final at Wexford Park on Saturday.

Dolmen Stockbrokers made a pre-tax loss of just under €2.5m in 2010, accounts just lodged with the Companies Office show, but the firm expects its 2011 accounts to show a return to profitability.

OULART-THE-BALLAGH produced a stunning performance to hold off a magnificent Clough-Ballacoola in this thrilling AIB Leinster Club SHC semi-final at Wexford Park yesterday.

IT’S all changed so much since I was over Cork in the 2003-2004 finals.

THREE years ago, a promise of glasnost swept through Leinster hurling.

Darren Stamp is fit to lead Wexford in Saturday's All-Ireland SHC second phase qualifier against Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 5pm).

AFTER a magnificent win in the Leinster U21 semi-final during the last week, Wexford are going in to this game with their tails up and heads high.

Paul Roche and Garrett Sinnott have been included in the Wexford team for Saturday's Leinster SHC semi-final against Kilkenny at Wexford Park (throw-in 7pm).

WEXFORD in Wexford Park isn’t the fixture Henry Shefflin would have chosen for Kilkenny’s championship bow this summer, but the former hurler of the year has nonetheless welcomed the decision to playSaturday week’s fixture away from Croke Park.

Wexford will begin their Championship campaign this weekend without team captain Darren Stamp who is nursing an ankle injury.

IT’S a subject that was first raised by our own hurling expert, Tony Considine, last year, when he questioned the practicality of hurling under lights.

Kilkenny 2-16 Wexford 0-17, Nowlan Park

DÓNAL ÓG CUSACK returns to the Cork team for the first time this year when Galway visit Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.

LIAM SHEEDY has made four changes to his Tipperary starting line-up as they attempt to revive their All-Ireland SHC challenge in tomorrow’s qualifier tie against Wexford in Semple Stadium after the defeat against Cork in the Munster quarter-final in May.

Wexford manager Colm Bonnar has made four changes to his team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC phase 1 qualifier against Tipperary at Semple Stadium (throw-in 3.30pm).

WHAT were the Leinster Council thinking when they fixed this game for 7pm on a Saturday evening in Kilkenny?

MICHAEL CAHILL and Brian O’Meara will make their championship debuts for Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Goalkeeper Noel Carton and right corner back Lar Prendergast are the only Championship debutants in the Wexford team to face Galway in Saturday night's Leinster SHC quarter-final.

Ballyhale Shamrocks (Kilkenny) 2-20 Oulart-the-Ballagh (Wexford) 1-21, Wexford Park (aet)

WATERFORD last night received a major boost for Sunday’s Munster SHC final against Tipperary at Semple Stadium when co-captain Stephen Molumphy was named to lead the attack in a sector notable again for the exclusion of 2007 Hurler of The Year Dan Shanahan.

FIVE non-executive directors announced their resignation from the board of Anglo Irish Bank yesterday, ahead of the Government’s expected formal takeover of the lender later this week.

The Government was tonight urged to launch a root and branch review of banking regulations as five more directors of scandal-hit Anglo Irish Bank quit, and banking shares plunged on the stock exchange.

Five directors on the board of Anglo Irish Bank have resigned today as the Government prepares to take the firm into state ownership.

The official nominees for the 2008 Opel Gaelic Players Awards for hurling have been announced today by the Gaelic Players Association (GPA), with All-Ireland champions Kilkenny receiving the most nominations.

IT NOW seems garlic and a wooden stake will be necessary to finish Cork. The men in red overcame a nine-point deficit to reel in Clare in yesterday’s All-Ireland quarter-final, a stunning turnaround which looked out of the question at half-time.

HOW do you analyse Wexford hurlers? How do you preview any game in which Wexford are involved?

FOR 38 minutes in Croke Park yesterday this was a match, a real contest, as a Wexford side playing with pace and precision took the fight to Kilkenny, threatened to repeat what they had done in 2004 and win a Leinster title against all the odds.

REASONS to be cheerful in Croke Park yesterday.

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.

IMAGINE this scenario. A team with little realistic chance of defeating Kilkenny “tears” into them from the start but runs out of steam in the second half and is powerless to stop the scores mounting up.

Dublin 0-19 Wexford 2-13

After a long injury layoff, Wexford's All-Star goalkeeper Damien Fitzhenry makes his long awaited return to action for the Model county this weekend against Kilkenny.