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The Annual Convention of the Organisation of National Ex Servicemen and Women will take place this weekend at the Ormonde Hotel in Kilkenny from Friday June 10 to June Sunday 12.

Kevin Walsh's Sligo team start their Connacht championship campaign on Sunday when they take on Leitrim in Markievicz Park. The Yeat's men were unlucky to be relegated from division two of the NFL this year, but, even without the injured David Kelly, they should have too much power and class for Leitrim.

St Lachtain’s GAA Club have won the Irish Institute of Sports Surfaces Leinster GAA Club Playing Surface of the Year award 2010.

Paul Kinsella Chairman of the Kilkenny County GAA Board welcomed all delegates to O’Loughlin/Gaels GAA club earlier in the week to mark the 126th year of the foundation. Each year the annual convention takes a look back over the past successes and future plans.

Next Monday night the different committees of the Mayo GAA Strategic Action plan will meet up and give their recommendations from their various committees, the chairperson of the strategic action plan steering group Liam Horan has been very pleased with the amount of engagement from the public and GAA members at large to the plan. Speaking to the Mayo Advertiser this week he said “It has proved that there are plenty of people who are willing to work and roll up their sleeves to help Mayo GAA, it also shows that people who say that the age of volunteerism is dead are wrong. We’ve had a huge amount of interest from people who wanted to get involved and still do want to get involved.”

Over 30 people gathered in the Community Centre in Kilmacow last Wednesday afternoon to participate in the round of consultative meetings being held as part the Kilkenny Age Friendly Initiative. Kilkenny intends to become the second ‘Age Friendly’ county in the country after this programme was piloted in Louth.

Sporting clubs that comply with best practice standards and follow a recognised code of conduct could be awarded an EU “blue flag” under a scheme proposed by Irish sports representatives this week.

One of the largest sponsorship agreements in the history of St Canice’s Kilkenny Credit Union was announced this week. For the next three years St Canice’s Kilkenny Credit Union, the largest community based credit union in Ireland, will be renewing its sponsorship of the GAA Senior County Championship, the winners of which in the past year have won the All-Ireland Club Championship.

Galway hurlers and GAA enthusiasts are once again backing GOAL’s efforts to raise funds for AIDS-ravaged Uganda.

Barna boast a very hard-working and progressive GAA club and the u-16 team proved that fact by winning three trophies this year - the championship, league, and comortas peile na Gaillimhe.