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There was disappointment for Muckalee last weekend, as Tom Cullen’s men were narrowly defeated by Skerries Harps in the Leinster intermediate football championship.

In 2009, Michael Fennelly captained Kilkenny to win their fourth All-Ireland title in a row.

Another Sunday and another chance for James Horan to see how far his project as Mayo manager has progressed. This time a trip to the capital awaits Mayo and their supporters against the form team of this year’s National Football League in GAA headquarters is on the menu. The Dubs’ have won four out of four in this years league term and look to be in flying form.

The finals of the Mick Fitzpatrick Cup and the Tosh Connors Shield seven -a -side soccer tournament was re-established this year after a seven year absence.

The eagerly anticipated draw for round two of the Claregalway Hotel Senior Football Championship has thrown up a mouth-watering ties between Killererin and Salthill.

Kilkenny’s involvement in this year’s national hurling league was brought to an end last Sunday when they were narrowly out-fought by a Galway side who, for various reasons, were more motivated on the day.

Guinness, an official sponsor of the 2008 GAA All-Ireland Hurling Championship, is bringing hurling off the pitch and into specially built 3D perspex cubes this summer with a new 3-a-side hurling game, Guinness Hurling Cubed. And from today until Saturday, Kilkenny Castle will host Guinness Hurling Cubed for three nights. Endorsed by Kilkenny legend and last year’s All-Ireland winning captain, Henry Shefflin, he’s urging the Kilkenny people to enter a team into the event and to check out the new innovative 3-a-side hurling game. Kilkenny hurlers Tommy Walsh and JJ Delaney have also backed the game and will attend the city final on Saturday, August 2. Played with 21” hurleys and a soft touch sliotar, the game is a fast paced and exciting derivative of the real thing, which was developed by Guinness, with expert guidance from former Cork Manager, Donal O’Grady. Teams of three players compete for either three minutes, or until three goals are scored – in a blitz format – over the course of the night. The nightly winners will battle it out in the Kilkenny City Final on Saturday, with the four semi-finalists winning a trip to Dublin on the eve of the GAA All-Ireland Hurling final for the grand finale of Guinness Hurling Cubed.

Patients, staff and visitors at St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny were treated to a pleasant surprise on Friday October 3 last, when the Liam McCarthy Cup and three other All Ireland hurling championship trophies were on show.

Ballyhale Shamrocks v James Stephens

Kilkenny 6-12