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The scoring prowess of brothers TJ and Eoin Reid played a big part as Ballyhale Shamrocks claimed their fourth Kilkenny County Championship in-a-row.

Beaten semi-finalists Galway received three camogie All-Stars awards.

Last Saturday, in the preliminary round of the under 21 championship, a clash between O’Loughlins and Danesfort saw the two teams tie, in a close physical match.

Kilkenny All-Star player Tommy Walsh has been named as the Opel Gaelic Player of the Year for hurling for 2009.

The Shamrocks players created club history last Sunday by landing the Tom Walsh Cup for the fourth year in a row. This year’s victory was without a doubt the hardest earned of the four.

In 1966 Galway were fortunate to get out of Connacht by beating Mayo. To an extent they were also lucky in a hard fought semi-final against Cork. They eventually won what was regarded as the best game of football seen in years, by a score of 1-11 to 1-9. And so they were into their fourth All-Ireland final in a row and going for three wins in a row and the question was, would this team reverse the three losses in a row that Galway suffered at the hands of Kerry 1940, Kerry 1941, and Dublin in 1942? Meath still stood between them and Sam.

A super Eoin Reid point pushed the Leinster Championship to extra time in this exciting encounter between Ballyhale Shamrocks and Oulart-the-Ballagh. The game was played in front of a large crowd in Wexford Park on Sunday last.

When people think of the Portumna hurling captain, they almost automatically associate that honour with Ollie Canning.

Rugby

All-Ireland hurling champions Kilkenny will be captained by one of the two Reid brothers next season.