The Allianz NHL gets underway this evening with some mouth-watering fixtures from the very start, including Cork v Kilkenny in Páirc Uí Rinn and Dublin v Tipperary in Parnell Park tomorrow.

DCU 1-20 St Pat’s-Mater Dei 0-11 

Galway got an early season boost when they came from behind to capture their second ever Walsh Cup title at Croke Park.

Galway 2-18 Carlow 0-15: Walsh Cup: Helped by goals late in each half from Padraig Brehony and Jonathan Glynn Galway hurlers advanced to a Walsh Cup final after being given a decent challenge from a plucky Carlow side at Network Cullen Park yesterday.

Dublin and Galway advanced to next Saturday’s Bord na Móna Walsh Cup Final at Croke Park (5pm), following wins over Laois and Carlow respectively this afternoon.

CIT 0-17 DCU 1-6: CIT manager Pat Mulcahy praised Tipperary star John O’Dwyer’s big-game character after inspiring his team to an opening-day Fitzgibbon Cup success. The All Star forward shot four important points in the final quarter, and 0-8 in total, to settle a tie that hung in the balance.

Wexford and Galway successfully negotiated their first competitive games of 2015 in Hurling’s Bord na Móna Walsh Cup this afternoon.

Six-time All-Ireland winning minor hurling boss Mattie Murphy has joined the managerial ticket seeking to replace outgoing Galway senior manager Anthony Cunningham.

Looking at the World Cup quarter-finals in the last few days, it would be fair to say Spanish referee Carlos Velasco Carballo and his colleagues made more mistakes than the GAA match officials this past weekend.

Tipperary came from the dead to slay Galway in a quite remarkable All-Ireland senior hurling championship qualifier at Semple Stadium this evening.

A sense of deja vú must have pervaded the air in Tipperary this week as the county’s hurlers stared down the barrel of a second Round One Qualifier dismissal in succession.

Management Moves

Galway 1-22 Laois 0-23

For the second time in 12 months Galway got the fright of their lives in the Leinster SHC as the Tribesmen carved out a two-point win over a determined Laois side in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise.

Nowhere are the travails of a county longing for an All-Ireland more documented than Galway

Galway hurler Joe Canning believes their failure to translate club success onto the inter-county stage has been "blown out of proportion".

Kilkenny 1-16 Galway 0-15 Kilkenny charged into the NHL final with a compelling second half performance at the Gaelic Grounds.

Galway 1-20 Limerick 1-12

Galway 3-16 Tipperary 1-19

ALLIANZ HL DIVISION 1A:

KILKENNY 2-16 GALWAY 1-16

Leinster 1-23 Connacht 0-16

Waterford 0-22 Galway 1-13

Waterford 0-22 Galway 1-13

Dublin manager Anthony Daly is thankful that his troops only have a week to wait to get yesterday's drubbing by Galway out of their system.

Galway 0-28 Dublin 1-12

I’m living in the heart of rural Clare but I could be by the sea. Looking out my window I only see water and wind whipping up the whitecaps and it makes me wonder — will these games go ahead at all this weekend? Should these games go ahead?

CLARE

Connacht 1-18 Munster 0-16

Clare’s joint U21 manager Donal Moloney admitted the injury to senior panellist Aaron Cunningham could force him out of the All-Ireland SHC final.

Kilkenny v Galway in Thurles this Sunday in the second of the two All-Ireland U21 hurling semi-finals (Clare v Antrim 4pm, Kilkenny vGalway 6pm) — a prelude to what might happen on September 9 in Croke Park, the big one?

RECENT seasons have been defined by the inconsistency of Galway senior hurling sides in the white heat of championship.

WHEN France won football’s World Cup in 1998 with a sprinkling of Arsenal players, an English tabloid famously produced the headline: Arsenal 3 Brazil 0.

GALWAY minor boss Mattie Murphy has rewarded Dean Higgins and Jack Carr for their dazzling showings when introduced as substitutes in their semi-final win over Clare, by naming them in his starting 15 for tomorrow afternoon’s All-Ireland final against Dublin.

COUNTY player Aonghus Callanan hit 0-5 from play as city side Liam Mellows, who won the last of their seven Galway SHC titles back in 1970, advanced to the quarter-finals at Athenry yesterday, seeing off Sarsfields 0-13 to 0-11.

Kilkenny 5-19 Galway 0-15

TOMORROW’S ESB All-Ireland MHC semi-final in Croke Park is the latest in a series of compelling clashes between Kilkenny and Galway.