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Waterford native and hurling great Kevin Ryan has been appointed as the new senior and under 21 hurling manager for Carlow. Ryan was ratified at a county board meeting in Carlow last night (Wednesday) and is expected to push the growth of Carlow’s hurling.

The young boy at the centre of a national debate on racism in sport shrugged off the events of last week to score a goal as his club Éire Óg stormed to the county under-14 football title on Tuesday night.

A general meeting is to take place of all county board chairmen and GAA officials to discuss the problems associated with the invasion of supporters on to the pitch at Croke Park following big games.

The Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Martin Cullen TD, visited the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar and McHale Park on Friday last together with Fianna Fáil TD Beverley Flynn.

Dicksboro GAA Club celebrated their Centenary Year in style when they launched their history Up the Boro in the Ormonde Hotel recently. Written by Gerry O’Neill who was ably assisted by archivists and historians Ned Buggy, Noel Deevey and Tom Beirne, the superbly produced book covers the clubs History at a rate of a chapter per decade.

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The search for a new hurling manager to succeed Ger Loughnane is coming to a close with eight candidates having been nominated. The task now for the county board chairman Gerry Larkin, hurling board chairman Miko Ryan, and secretary John Fahey, is to start the assessment and interview process before final decisions can be made.

Last Monday, the County Board convention took place in O’Loughlins GAA club, where a number of issues arose.

The Cork saga has taken up a lot of paper space in the last month and by the looks of things a resolution seems further away now than it did in its initial stages.

The Kilkenny club season may be drawing to a close for this year but before the curtain finally comes down, there is one more very important fixture to be played, the U21 final is down for decision between Dicksboro and the Rower Inistioge this Sunday at Nowlan Park. This grade is often referred to as the forgotten grade due mainly to the timing of the competition. The fixture’s committee find it almost impossible to fit this competition into the roster because demand on these players is at a premium during the height of the summer. This year’s competition seemed very open with a lot of teams fancying their chances. Teams like St Martin’s, Clara, Danesfort, O'Loughlin and Erin’s Own have all fallen by the wayside over the last month or so. This year’s competition also looked very lopsided with 10 teams competing in the north of the county compared to just three in the south, other snippets of note are that the Rower Inistioge have just played one game namely the southern final to get to this stage of the competition whereas Dicksboro have come through a tough campaign beating Clara, O'Loughlins and Conahy Shamrocks along the way. This is no fault of the southern champions but maybe the system needs to be addressed. I feel one or two southern outfits dropped back to the B championship in search of honours. My thinking on this situation is that a team will always gain more long-term by competing at the highest level. I've seen a few cases at various grades where teams would be capable of competing at a higher level.