Kildare president Seamus Aldridge is surprised, given Ned Quinn’s previous experience in Kilkenny, that the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) chairman decided the county can’t host their All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Mayo in St Conleth’s Park on Saturday because of capacity issues.

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Last October when some of the country’s most enquiring coaching minds and leading service providers attended the HPX High Performance conference out in Sport Ireland’s fabulous new campus in Abbotstown, a number of the best operators working in inter-county hurling fell into each other’s company during a tea break.

Rivals Kilkenny and Tipperary meet again tomorrow in the league final in Nowlan Park. Anthony Daly says this Kilkenny group know by this stage that if they’re not producing the goods, Brian Cody will get someone else to do it

GAA Congress this afternoon rejected the Club Players Association (CPA) motion for voter transparency at the annual event.

The messages have been plentiful as they have been humbling. Heart-warming texts from Derek McGrath, Anthony Daly, and Nicky English. 

Tipperary captain Pádraic Maher accepts neither he or any of his team-mates will be able to play all league and championship games next year because of the condensed schedule.

Four days out from a hurling-dominated Special Congress and what will be decided for next year’s senior championship is anyone’s guess, writes John Fogarty.

A legend, a leader, a braveheart, a kind, loving and spiritual man were among the accolades used to describe Willie Duggan at his funeral Mass, when more than 1,000 people gathered to say farewell to a giant of Irish and international rugby.

Wexford have been dealt a blow ahead of Saturday’s Leinster semi-final against Kilkenny with the news that Liam Óg McGovern is suspected to have torn a cruciate ligament.

If you hear what sounds like a klaxon, it’s because what follows is a mention of hurling and the movie “Gladiator” in the same breath.

FAI chief John Delaney and Ireland team manager Martin O’Neill were among the mourners yesterday at the funeral Mass for Milo Corcoran, a former FAI president who leaves “many, many legacies”.

Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey has taken up a key role with the county’s underage footballers.

Kilkenny chairman Ned Quinn has issued a heartfelt apology to the county’s minor footballers in the wake of their humiliating defeat to Wexford in the Leinster championship on Saturday.

Kilkenny's county board chairman has apologised to the county's minor footballers who suffered a 71-point thrashing at the hands of Wexford on Saturday in the minor Leinster Championship.

A fleece of us in Clare got nominated for All Stars in 1998 and the county board obligingly decided to fly us up on the Friday and back down on the Saturday.

Surveying the crowd of thousands last night in Nowlan Park at another victory celebration, Brian Cody was already planting the seeds for more All-Ireland homecomings in Kilkenny.

When a little more time has passed, it will inevitably become a question among hurling’s barstool brigade: name the man who spent a single year as Kilkenny manager immediately prior to Brian Cody?

And just like that, Waterford are again everyone’s second favourite team.

As one foxy-headed supremo bowed out from the inter-county fray this week, another is about to make his eagerly-awaited return. 

Fr Tommy Maher, who died on Tuesday evening, has been described as a "legendary figure in Kilkenny and in hurling generally" by Kilkenny County Board chairman Ned Quinn.

So the end came over tea and scones. That seems a rather genteel way to conclude the greatest career in Gaelic games rather than, say, a last, frenzied attack to overturn a two-point deficit, a desperate free launched into a hostile square.

As was widely anticipated, Henry Shefflin this afternoon confirmed his inter-county retirement after 16 illustrious years.

It may be six months since the word was uttered but with time it has become more powerful. Because it’s never been retracted. Never apologised for. And, let’s be honest, never denounced by a GAA official without any vim.

Hurling 2020 chairman Liam Sheedy believes a limit of five defenders on the goal-line for 20-metre frees is a fair compromise.

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Alan Cadogan will not feature for the Cork senior footballers in 2015, having chosen to focus on hurling next season.

Brian Cody has avoided suspension for comments about referee Barry Kelly in the wake of Kilkenny’s All-Ireland hurling final replay win over Tipperary last month.

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.

Thousands gathered at Nowlan Park this evening to welcome home the victorious Kilkenny team after their 35th All-Ireland Senior Hurling triumph yesterday at Croke Park.

The GAA’s Hawk-Eye technology has its critics, but the system netted the association €3m extra in gate receipts after its pivotal role in yesterday’s drawn All-Ireland hurling final.

Kilkenny County Board chairman Ned Quinn has called for the building of a hurling museum in the city to mark the county’s illustrious GAA past.

Irish Rail will suffer yet another significant financial loss this weekend if talks on staff pay cuts do not quickly yield a solution which averts the upcoming strike action.

Filing an attendance yarn during the week, the mandatory phone call was put in to Kilkenny chairman Ned Quinn.

The roofless Old Stand in Nowlan Park won’t be seen in Sky Sports’ GAA debut next month.

Sky Sports’ GAA debut will feature a roofless stand as a new one won’t be ready in time for the Leinster SHC quarter-final between Kilkenny and Offaly in Nowlan Park on June 7.

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