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Galway footballers have suffered a massive blow with the news that Michael Meehan will not feature in this year’s championship.

Kilcormac-Killoughey are odds on favourites to retain the Seán Robbins Cup in Offaly after Coolderry, winners of the Offaly and Leinster championships in 2011, crashed out of the championship at the quarter-final stage for the second year in succession on Saturday evening.

Daithí Regan and Johnny Pilkington may have soldiered together for years as midfield partners for both Birr and Offaly, but they’ll be in opposition next weekend when Regan’s Shinrone meet Pilkington’s Birr side in the quarter-finals of the Offaly SHC.

Dinny Cahill just ‘loves the buzz’.

St Rynagh’s and Kilcormac/Killoughey will clash in an Offaly SHC final for the first time after they registered penultimate round victories over Shinrone and Birr, respectively, in Tullamore yesterday.

There will new hurling champions in Offaly after All-Ireland club finalists Coolderry were comprehensively brushed aside by impressive St Rynagh’s in the quarter-final yesterday.

FOUR-time All-Ireland club champions Birr served notice of their intent when overwhelming reigning kingpins Coolderry by 1-16 to 0-10 in a one-sided fourth round encounter at Shinrone on Saturday.

LOUGHREA’S St Brigid’s completed a stunning year at All-Ireland vocational hurling level when their senior side pipped Roscrea CC by two points in a thrilling SAHC final in Semple Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

THERE is a unique tri-county element to the Roscrea CC team that will take to the field in this afternoon’s All-Ireland Vocational SAHC final in Semple Stadium.

FOR the first occasion since 1988, four-time All-Ireland club champions Birr won’t be involved in the Offaly SHC semi-finals, after they were defeated 0-11 to 0-10 by reigning champions Tullamore at O’Connor Park on Saturday.

THE Cork team for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Clare shows one change from the side that defeated Galway last Saturday night.

JUSTIN KEHOE couldn’t be blamed if he hardly knew where he stood these days.

Legendary defender Brian Whelahan has been named in the Offaly attack for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Dublin (Parnell Park, throw-in 7pm).

Northern Ireland’s Michael Hoey and Shinrone’s Justin Kehoe finished in a tie for 51st place as Lanarkshire’s Marc Warren finished the Thomas Björn Open presented by Multidata on a week to forget for the European Challenge Tour’s Irish contingent.

DONEGAL will be without Damien Diver for their All-Ireland SFC qualifier with Down at Clones on Sunday.