Oulart The Ballagh (Wexford) 0-16 Clonkill (Westmeath) 0-8: Wexford champions Oulart The Ballagh moved into the Leinster Club hurling final with a comfortable eight-point victory over Westmeath champions Clonkill at a wet Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday. 

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 3-8 Clough-Ballacolla (Laois) 0-13 (AIB Leinster Club SHC): Oulart-The Ballagh made their expected advance to a Leinster Championship meeting with Clonkill of Westmeath but they were forced to survive a vigorous examination to do so.

Leinster U21 HC semi-finals Kilkenny v Carlow, Netwatch Cullen Park (J Heffernan, Wexford), 7.30pm.

Waterford’s Philip Mahony is honest about his return to action.

Darren Stamp insists Oulart-the-Ballagh only have themselves to blame for their latest Leinster senior club hurling final collapse.

Oulart-the-Ballagh and Wexford defender Eoin Moore is unfazed by criticism of the leggings he wore in last Sunday’s AIB Leinster senior club hurling final against Mount Leinster Rangers.

Oulart-the Ballagh (Wexford) 0-8 Mount Leinster Rangers (Carlow) 0-11

Mount Leinster Rangers manager Tom Mullally was honest enough to admit he hadn’t processed his side’s win at the final whistle yesterday.

Mount Leinster Rangers manager Tommy Mullally believes Oulart-the-Ballagh’s poor Leinster final record will ensure the Wexford champions will take little for granted in Sunday’s provincial hurling final.

Carlow's Mount Leinster Rangers and Oulart the Ballagh of Wexford will meet in the AIB Leinster Club SHC Final, while Sixmilebridge advanced to the Munster decider against Na Piarsaigh of Limerick, following today's action.

Oulart the Ballagh 0-20 Clara 2-11

Kilcormac-Killoughey, Oulart the Ballagh and Mount Leinster Rangers booked semi-final berths in the AIB Leinster Club SHC, while their were county title wins for Midleton and St Gabriel's in Cork and London respectively.

Oulart-the-Ballagh 3-12 Ferns St Aidan’s 1-16

Oulart the Ballagh, Castletown-Geoghegan, Mount Leinster Rangers and Glenealy are celebrating Senior Hurling Championship wins in Wexford, Westmeath, Carlow and Wicklow respectively following finals this afternoon.

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

Wexford dual player Lee Chin was last night leaning towards lining out for the hurlers instead of the footballers on Saturday.

Milford Camogie Club waited quite a while for a first Cork county senior title, but since they beat St Catherine’s last October the good times have rolled.

Kilcormac/Killoughey 1-12 Oulart-the-Ballagh 0-11

Oulart-Ballagh 1-11 Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-10

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 1-13 Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 1-12

Retired Wexford stalwart Darren Stamp helped Oulart-the Ballagh edge out Kilmacud Crokes in a tense AIB Leinster Club SHC quarter-final tie at Parnell Park.

The novel southside derby in today’s Dublin SHC final ended in a 2-10 to 0-9 victory for Kilmacud Crokes over Cuala at Parnell Park.

Oulart-The Ballagh (Wexford) 3-13 Drom & Inch (Tipperary) 0-5

AGAIN, the weekend’s fare on the horse racing front isn’t the most inspiriting but Kempton, which is a track I like for national hunt racing, hosts a decent card, which features the Lanzarote Hurdle.

KEN HOGAN was already thinking of the All-Ireland semi-final at the final whistle in Nowlan Park yesterday.

THIS club hurling championship must be one of the strangest competitions around.

Leinster Club SHC final: Oulart-the-Ballagh (Wexford) 1-11 Coolderry (Offaly) 1-15

WITH THE plethora of first-time winners in the county hurling championships all over the country, Ken Hogan could be forgiven for dreaming just a little.

COOLDERRY had an impressive six points win over Ballyboden St Enda’s in this entertaining Leinster Club SHC semi-final at Parnell Park yesterday.

Oulart-the Ballagh survived a second half scare from Laois champions Clough/Ballacolla to register a 3-12 to 2-11 semi-final win in the AIB Leinster Club Senior Hurling Championship.

THERE was massive delight in the villages of Oulart and The Ballagh yesterday, as their Leinster club win over Kilkenny champions James Stephens at Nowlan Park on Sunday was celebrated with gusto.

IT’S taken four attempts in the last seven years, but Wexford champions Oulart-The Ballagh have finally turned over a Kilkenny team in the Leinster Club senior hurling championship.

RATHNURE tried hard but were unable to stop Oulart-the-Ballagh completing a three-in-a-row in a dour Wexford SHC final at Wexford Park yesterday.

O’LOUGHLIN GAELS full-back Andy Kearns has been ruled out of the AIB All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final clash with Ulster kingpins Loughgiel Shamrocks on February 19.

THREE times postponed, this Leinster Club senior hurling final at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow, yesterday was worth the wait.

O’Loughlin Gaels (Kilkenny) 0-14 Oulart-The-Ballagh (Wexford) 1-8

WEXFORD champions Oulart The Ballagh qualified for the Leinster Club SHC final following a hard-earned victory over Westmeath champions Raharney in a high-scoring match played in dense fog at Cusack Park yesterday.

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

THERE is no rest this week for newly-crowned Kilkenny champions Ballyhale Shamrocks, no time to celebrate their magnificent achievement of four-in-a-row.

WEXFORD SHC FINAL:

Connections of Wichita Lineman are hoping top-weight Notre Pere takes his chance in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse tomorrow.

Notre Pere has been declared for Monday’s Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National, despite Jim Dreaper admitting to concerns about the ground being faster than ideal.

WICHITA Lineman is on course to attempt to follow up his dramatic Cheltenham Festival victory in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National.

Wichita Lineman is on course to attempt to follow up his dramatic Cheltenham Festival victory in the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National.