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Carlow GAA are busy putting team management’s in place for the coming year. Dublin man Tom McKiterick will coach the under 21 footballers while Sean Adamson who has done Trojan work training the county minor football teams, will train the under 21 side. Jim Bolger, Dan McInerney, and Breffni Hannon, will act as selectors.

Kilkenny senior hurling manager Brian Cody isn’t impressed with the new GAA rules. The introduction of the new yellow card rules which many believe are designed more for football than hurling may be hurting the game. Brian Cody was speaking in Croke Park on Tuesday last at the launch of the 2009 All-Ireland minor championship.

The great organisation that is the GAA has traditionally had a wonderful way of resolving disputes within the confines of its ranks, more often than not away from the glaring eyes of the media. However in these past few weeks and days we have witnessed some quite bizarre happenings within the GAA world that will surely have rocked the traditionalists of our game back on their heels.

Two of Kilkenny’s finest sons were bestowed with the highest honour possible by their native city when they were made Freemen of the city of Kilkenny at the weekend.

Kilkenny’s seven victorious All-Ireland hurling and camogie teams and Hurling Manager Brian Cody were the guests of honour at an historic civic reception on Saturday night.

The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese has accepted an invitation to be conferred with the title ‘Freeman of Kilkenny City.

John O’Mahony and his senior management team are more than likely disappointed with Keith Higgins’ decision to play hurling for Mayo rather than travel to NY for Mayo’s championship opener on Sunday week. The Mayo hurlers will play Kerry in their championship opener on the same weekend. The talented corner- back has just returned to Ireland having spent a number of months in Australia. Keith did however line out last week in Mayo’s challenge match against Kildare in Kiltoom. I expect that the Mayo management are delighted to have their ace defender back in plenty of time for the bigger challenges ahead, but would have liked if he could have travelled to the Big Apple for the weekend. However it should not have come as a huge surprise that he declared for the hurlers as Keith has always declared his love of hurling and it is no secret that it is his preferred game. This is the first time that both codes have clashed on a championship weekend, which is unfortunate as it has forced Keith to declare his preference. Coincidentally, I met with Martin Brennan, the Mayo county senior hurling manager, during the week who told me that he was thrilled that Keith opted to play in Mayo’s Christy Ring Championship encounter with Kerry. It was not a total surprise to him either as he had been in touch with Keith frequently over the last number of weeks once he was aware of the imminent clash of fixtures.

A Kilkenny man is to run for the presidency of the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) later this year.

A Double DVD called "A Day of Hurling Coaching, Tips and Advice" is now available to buy and features Brian Cody – Kilkenny senior hurling manager, Michael Dempsey – Kilkenny senior hurling trainer/selector and former Kilkenny U-21 hurling trainer and senior selector Martin Fogarty, George O’Connor – coaching officer & former Leinster & Wexford hurler. The DVD also includes interviews with James Meagher – Kilkenny U-21 hurling trainer, Pat Critchley – coaching officer & former Leinster & Laois hurler, Brian Ryan - Kilkenny minor hurling trainer and former Kilkenny U-21 hurling trainer and Adrian Finan – former Kilkenny U-21 hurling manager and club All-Ireland winning manager with James Stephens. There will also be contributions from several current and former Kilkenny players.

This summer will see Irish traditions brought back with a clash of the ash in Kinvara with Feile Cuchulainn taking place from June 12 to 14 .