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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.

An Cearnog Nua, Moycullen, capped a great weekend on Sunday in the Kingfisher NUIG sports centre when they comfortably accounted for last year’s league winners, Tolka Rovers on a 74-57 scoreline.

A dramatic year for Galway United, loaded with crucial contests and strange stories, concludes at the Belfield Bowl tomorrow (7.45pm).

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.

It was a highly successful weekend for the two Carlow under-age teams as FC Carlow and the Carlow Youths League both recorded impressive victories. Despite the horrific wind and rain, most of the scheduled matches went ahead as planned.

Top Oil under 21 hurling championship semi-final

Mayo will make the long trip north this weekend to take on the Inishowen league in their opening game in this season’s Oscar Traynor Trophy. For the second year in a row Castlebar Celtic manager Declan Kilkelly will be taking charge of the side and after narrowly missing out on qualifiying from the group stages last year Kilkelly will be hoping to at least improve on that this season. This year’s competition sees Mayo in a three team group with this weekend’s opponents the Inishowen League and the Galway League and with only one team to qualify for the next round of the competition.

Mervue United are on the brink of an amazing end to their first season in the Eircom League A Championship as they prepare to take on the First Division’s bottom club Kildare County in a promotion/relegation play-off over the next week. Tomorrow night’s first leg at Fahy’s Field (kick off 8pm) promises to be a memorable occasion for all involved with the progressive club.

Leinster Club intermediate hurling final

The harrowing sound of club managers shouting out football drills has been replaced in Mayo GAA Clubs of late by the mellow sound of tin whistles and ballad singing as the county gears up for the annual Scór competitions.