Wexford needed three goals in a devastating five-minute second-half spell to cast aside a determined Carlow at Wexford Park on Saturday.

Clare booked their place in the NHL Division 1B final after their fourth consecutive win of the campaign at Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

Stephen McDonnell and Eoin Cadogan have been brought back into the Cork defence by manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy for Sunday’s Division 1A hurling league tie against Kilkenny in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as his team attempts to bounce back from last Sunday’s defeat to Galway.

The Central Appeals Committee (CAC) last night upheld the Central Hearings Committee’s decision to force Monaghan to play Sunday’s Division 2 game against Galway at a neutral venue.

IT may not have been the Manchester derby but Meath and Wexford managed to shake off the inevitable January cobwebs and inject an unexpected amount of entertainment into an O’Byrne Cup game of little importance at Pairc Tailteann yesterday.

Limerick 1-22 Wexford 2-13

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.

A WIN pulling up for Wexford then, but the 11-point margin owed more to Antrim’s spectacular collapse than anything the home team offered up in a Leinster quarter-final that seemed to hang in the balance at half-time.

CLONOULTY-Rossmore defender John O’Keeffe will make his senior intercounty hurling championship debut in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final clash against Cork after being named in Tipperary’s starting side last night.

WEXFORD completed the great escape as they ensured their Division 1 survival with a deserved draw against All-Ireland champions Tipperary at Semple Stadium.

THE final round of games in the two top divisions of the Allianz Hurling League this weekend and plenty still to play for.

DUBLIN football defender Kevin Nolan says he and his team-mates train as hard as Premier League footballers.

IT’S A big weekend on the Allianz Hurling League front. In the first division especially, six teams are still in with a chance of making the final and all involved in games against each other, while the remaining two teams – Wexford and Offaly – meet in what will probably be the relegation decider.

DAVID O’CALLAGHAN came in as a late replacement but proved his value to Dublin with two first-half goals setting his side up for a nine-point victory over a battling Wexford outfit at Wexford Park yesterday.

CORK County Board have called for fair play after All-Ireland-winning captain Graham Canty was snubbed for a trip to America on St Patrick’s Day.

SO many times it’s been said — goals win matches; so many times it’s been said also about this Kilkenny team, that they are a veritable goal-scoring machine. Well, not so yesterday.

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

THIS game told us more about how far Wexford hurling has gone back rather than how far Galway have moved forward from last year.

Galway 1-24 Wexford 0-06, Pearse Stadium

CORK manager Denis Walsh has introduced defensive newcomers Stephen McDonnell and Mark Ellis to his team for their Allianz Division 1 Hurling League match with Offaly at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. Glen Rovers player McDonnell gets the nod at right corner-back while Millstreet hurler Ellis will line out at centre-back.

Laois 2-16 Wexford 1-16

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).

Galway 2-22 Wexford 1-14

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.

THERE was a distinct lack of quality to yesterday evening’s Allianz NHL Division 2 decider in Semple Stadium, but it is results, not aesthetics, that will concern Wexford boss Colm Bonnar.

Laois manager Niall Rigney and his Wexford counterpart Colm Bonnar have named their respective starting line-ups ahead of Sunday's important NHL Division 2 encounter in Portlaoise (throw-in 2.30pm).

TOP-GUNS John Gardiner and Jerry O’Connor have been given starting places on the Cork team for next Sunday’s crunch Allianz Division One NHL clash with Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

GALWAY may have their work cut out with Colm Cooper at Pearse Stadium tomorrow, but Joe Kernan’s side will have another dangerous Dr Crokes corner-forward to contend with too.

Both Dublin manager Anthony Daly and his Wexford counterpart Colm Bonnar have announced their sides for tomorrow's Walsh Cup semi-final in Gorey.

OFF the field, the raging inferno that is the Limerick hurling crisis burns on, yet between the white lines Justin McCarthy is attempting to plough on with the preparation work for the 2010 season.

Clare 2-24 Wexford 2-18

Wexford manager Colm Bonnar has made just one change to his side for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC relegation play-off against Clare at O'Moore Park in Portlaoise (throw-in 5pm).

Dublin 0-18 Wexford 1-13

Wexford 2-17 Offaly 0-16

OFFALY struck a huge psychological blow against Wexford as they secured Division One hurling for 2010 with victory in yesterday’s NHL Division Two decider at Semple Stadium.

JOE JORDAN of Blarney makes his senior debut as Cork take on All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in the Allianz NHL at Nowlan Park in Denis Walsh’s first match in charge on Sunday.

THE 2008 Cork panel met last night to settle on a time and place for their upcoming press conference.

Defender Colm Farrell has been drafted in as the only change to the Wexford team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final clash with Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 2pm).

Kilkenny 5-21 Wexford 0-17

WEXFORD’S footballers may have achieved one major breakthrough at Croke Park yesterday but their hurling counterparts proved to be in no mood to accommodate a second such romantic script.

Wexford 2-15 Dublin 1-15