It’s the sort of thorny problem Darren Stamp was sure belonged to a past generation. Yet here he is, a day before a Leinster club hurling semi-final, and there’s something else clawing and scraping away at his mind.

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.

Just days after announcing his retirement from senior inter-county hurling, Wexford's Darren Stamp has called on the GAA to pay players at the top level.

Former Wexford hurler Darren Stamp believes inter-county players should be paid a weekly allowance by the GAA.

Teenager Jack Guiney proved an inspiration for Wexford as he struck 3-5 to help confine Laois to next year’s Allianz Hurling League Division 2A at Nowlan Park yesterday.

Wexford took the psychological boost away from this clash as they hammered a very poor Laois outfit with 15 points to spare at Bellefield yesterday.

Wexford’s grip on camogie shows no signs of diminishing as Oulart-The Ballagh claimed the All-Ireland Clunb senior title at Croke Park yesterday.

LIMERICK and Wexford have reacted strongly against the decision to restructure the Allianz Hurling League from next year.

Darren Stamp is fit to lead Wexford in Saturday's All-Ireland SHC second phase qualifier against Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 5pm).

UNDERSTANDABLY, Colm Bonnar wasn’t so pumped as to champion the advantage of hosting Kilkenny at Wexford Park for the first time since 1944.

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.

Wexford 3-16 Antrim 1-11

Wexford will begin their Championship campaign this weekend without team captain Darren Stamp who is nursing an ankle injury.

WEXFORD’S Darren Stamp may feel hurling is becoming ‘a game for sissies’ but a more nuanced dissection of the ancient code emerged in Croke Park yesterday among some of the Tipperary players he faced in Semple Stadium on Sunday.

WEXFORD star Darren Stamp has launched a blistering attack on GAA disciplinary chiefs – accusing them of taking the “manliness” out of hurling and edging it towards “a sissies’ game”.

Wexford have received a timely boost ahead of Sunday's Allianz NHL Division 2 final against Clare (Semple Stadium, throw-in 5pm), with Darren Stamp and Paul Roche returning from injury to take places on the starting line-up.

KERRY GAA chiefs have described Colm Cooper’s eye surgery as ‘successful’ and expect the All-Ireland winner to return to training in the near future.

WATERFORD last night received a major boost for Sunday’s Munster SHC final against Tipperary at Semple Stadium when co-captain Stephen Molumphy was named to lead the attack in a sector notable again for the exclusion of 2007 Hurler of The Year Dan Shanahan.

WATERFORD football manager John Kiely’s appeal to his hurling counterpart Davy Fitzgerald to release Gary Hurney and Shane Walsh for tomorrow’s first round Munster SFC game against Cork in Dungarvan has brought a positive response and both players are included in the starting 15 to face the Rebels.

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.

BECAUSE of injuries to three key players, Keith Rossiter, Darren Stamp and Ciarán Kenny, manager Colm Bonnar has deferred selection of the Wexford team for Sunday’s Allianz NHL Division Two final against Offaly at Semple Stadium, Thurles until tomorrow night.

Carrey still can’t shake off those annoying mannerisms – the face-pulling and eye-rolling – that often diminish his work, though all the other attributes he has can remove them from our view.

Hurricane Fly and Donnas Palm face a fascinating rematch in tomorrow’s paddypower.com Future Champions Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown.

Kilkenny 2-22 Wexford 2-7

Wexford 1-16 Galway 0-14, Nowlan Park

Declan Ruth is poised to make his first start of the season for Wexford's hurlers when they take on Cork this Sunday in the National League (Pairc Ui Chaoimh, throw-in 3.30pm).

Oulart-The-Ballagh 2-19 Monageer-Boolavogue 0-11

A knee ligament injury will keep Darren Stamp out of contention for Wexford's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final date with Clare on Sunday in Croke Park (throw-in 2.15pm).

THERE’S a starting place on the Cork team for Neil Ronan, while injured trio Ollie Moran, Stephen Lucey and Brian Geary have been named on the Limerick side for Saturday’s Guinness All-Ireland SHC quarter-final clash at Semple Stadium.

Waterford 1-13 Wexford 0-14

Wexford defender Darren Stamp is expected to return to action as his side open the defence of their Leinster SHC crown against Laois on Sunday week.

Wexford manager Seamus Murphy has been given a boost by the news that defender Darren Stamp's hand injury, picked up in a recent challenge game, is not as bad as first feared.

Former All Star full-back Darragh Ryan will play no part in Wexford's opening defence of their Leinster SHC crown.

All-Ireland champions Cork take to the road today and face Wexford, the opposition they overcame in last year's semi-final, in their Division 1B second round clash at Wexford Park.

Darren Stamp will line out in the heart of Wexford's defence for the visit of Cork in Sunday's National Hurling League encounter at Wexford Park.

Hearts 0 Celtic 2

Wexford hurling boss Seamus Murphy is to include dual players in his panel for next season's League and Championship campaigns.

WEXFORD hurling manager Seamus Murphy is to include dual players in his squad for the 2005 campaign.

Rangers 3 Graz AK 0

Basle: Zuberbuhler, Zwyssig, Huggel, Sterjovski, Chipperfield, Gimenez, Kleber, Delgado, Philipp Degen, Smiljanic, Rossi. Subs: Quennoz, Carignano, Barberis, David Degen, Mandl.

The good and the great of the show business world turned out today to celebrate the life of actor, writer and raconteur Peter Ustinov.