Tipp and Limerick champs to make hurling history on South Kerry's Iveragh Peninsula 

This, the club says, is to be first adult hurling match played on South Kerry’s Iveragh Peninsula since 1964, 60 years ago.

Portmagee GAA pitch. Pic via Skellig Rangers GAA

Football will put its hand up for a bit of attention on Saturday in places like Killarney and Sligo and Derry. But this is hurling’s weekend, when the grand old game makes its big entrance, when dust rises and the rain magically evaporates in the white heat of championship.

Fitting then, that hurling is also making an historic appearance in the Kingdom on Saturday, before the big ball action has its hour in the evening sun.