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Never an easy place to travel to and get a result but that is just what Kilkenny did last Sunday in the Leinster League. They got their first win of the League in a hard fought game with both sides committed and showing plenty of respect for each other.

It’s straight into Leinster action this weekend for Ballyhale Shamrocks, who won the Kilkenny title for a fourth successive year when beating James Stephens last Sunday.

Galway’s Padraic Joyce, former All-Star Michael Donnellan, and a host of national football greats such as Kerry’s Seamus Moynihan, Armagh’s All-Ireland winning captain and current Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney, Kildare’s Glen Ryan, Anthony Rainbow, John Divilly David Heaney, Derek Savage, Conor Mortimer, Paul Clancy, Richie Fahey, and Maurice Sheridan will all be in action this Saturday at Tuam Stadium at 3pm when they take on the current Galway football panel in a charity game.

One of the many voices in our kitchen when I was growing up was Michael O’Hehir and the Sunday afternoon game. The GAA (Chumann Lúthchleas Gael) has been blessed with its RTE broadcasters. I don’t think anyone can equal the inimitable Míchéal Ó Muircheartaigh, whose all inclusive broadcasts today are a performance in themselves. I think I am the same as most people to say that I turn down the sound on the TV, and turn up the volume on the radio when Ó Muircheartaigh takes flight.

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.

Kerry’s Tadhg Kennelly had been having a most magnificent year in a Gaelic footballing context, until last Sunday morning. Home from Oz, back with the Kerry panel, he collects a national football league medal, an All-Ireland medal and only last weekend an All-Star. Happy days. Just sit back and enjoy the harvest over the next few months, either in Kerry or back in Australia.

It is time for club members to have their say when the Galway GAA Club Forum takes place on Tuesday November 10.

Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin was honoured as the best hurler of the last 25 years in a prestigious ceremony during the week.

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.

Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin was honoured as the best hurler of the last 25 years in a prestigious ceremony during the week.