Afternoon all and welcome along to today’s Allianz Hurling League coverage.
Here are the main games, we’ll be keeping track of.
Division 1A
Kilkenny v Cork, Nowlan Park, 2pm
Tipperary v Clare, Semple Stadium, 3pm
Division 1B
Galway v Laois, Pearse Stadium, 2pm
Wexford v Kerry, Innovate Wexford Park, 2pm
It’s been a brilliant start so far to life with Wexford for Davy Fitzgerald as they’ve claimed victories over Limerick and Galway to now be in pole position for promotion.
The venue for today’s showdown in Kilkenny.
Here’s how last night’s big hurling games unfolded in Croke Park and the Gaelic Grounds.
Kilkenny 0-2 Cork 0-0
2 mins – Flying start from Kilkenny with TJ Reid and Eoin Murphy both converting frees.
Wexford 0-2 Kerry 0-2
Two Lee Chin points so far for Wexford, Kerry reply each time through Brian Murphy and John Buckley.
Kilkenny 0-3 Cork 0-2
8 mins – Shane Kingston finds Alan Cadogan in space and the combination play between the Douglas duo results in a point.
Kilkenny 0-4 Cork 0-4
11 mins – Richie Leahy stretches Kilkenny’s lead before Seamus Harnedy and Lehane are on target to reel them in.
Wexford 0-3 Kerry 0-3
11 mins – Kerry making it interesting at the moment, still level with the Division 1B league leaders.
Galway 0-11 Laois 0-2
11 mins – Galway are running riot in Pearse Stadium, looks grim already for Laois.
Kerry 0-4 Wexford 0-3
Padraig Boyle puts over a free to put Kerry, who are backed by the wind, in front.
Kilkenny 0-5 Cork 0-5
14 mins – Points swapped by TJ Reid from a free and Bill Cooper from play.
Kilkenny 0-6 Cork 0-6
17 mins – It’s tight and closely contested so far in Nowlan Park. A free from Cork’s Conor Lehane leaves the sides level.
Galway 0-13 Laois 0-3
18 mins – An impressive 10-point lead now for Galway. Jason Flynn, Padraic Mannion, Joseph Cooney, Conor Cooney and Aidan Harte amongst their point-scorers to date.
Kilkenny 0-7 Cork 0-6
20 mins – A majestic point by TJ Reid, his first from play, and Kilkenny are back in front.
Wexford 0-6 Kerry 0-4
A little bit of daylight between the teams now as Paul Morris notches a point for Wexford.
Kilkenny 0-8 Cork 0-7
25 mins – Richie Hogan from play for his first of the day and Conor Lehane from a free for his fourth of the day.
Wexford 0-7 Kerry 0-4
Jack O’Connor is fouled and the free is slotted over by Conor McDonald to increase the gap to three points.
Kilkenny 0-9 Cork 0-7
29 mins – Reid fires over a free and then is just off target from play after an excellent flowing move by Kilkenny cut open the Cork rearguard.
Kilkenny 0-11 Cork 0-9
36 mins – Lehane hits over a wonderful free but that’s quickly cancelled out by Richie Hogan.
Kerry 0-7 Wexford 0-7
Paudie O’Connor brings Kerry level.
Galway 0-20 Laois 0-4
Thomas Monaghan on target as Galway reach the 20-point mark.
Half-Time: Galway 0-20 Laois 0-5
Half-Time: Wexford 0-7 Kerry 0-7
Half-Time: Kilkenny 0-11 Cork 0-10
A result from Croke Park.
Cork 0-11 Kilkenny 0-11
37 mins – Conor Lehane brings Cork level early in the second half.
Kilkenny 0-12 Cork 0-12
39 mins – Cillian Buckley points from play and Lehane bangs over a ’65. Cork could have netted before that ’65 but Eoin Murphy was equal to Cormac Murphy’s well-struck shot.
Goal for Wexford from Harry Kehoe!
Goal for Galway from David Burke!
Wexford 1-9 Kerry 0-7
A five-point lead now for Wexford.
Galway 1-23 Laois 0-7
The Galway captain hits the net and it looks like game over in Salthill.
Kilkenny 0-15 Cork 0-12
43 mins – Walter Walsh with a brace and one from Reid sends Kilkenny clear by three.
Tipperary 0-4 Clare 0-0
3 mins – Brendan Maher and John McGrath on target so far for Tipperary.
Kilkenny 0-18 Cork 0-12
45 mins – The gap is steadily increasing. Richie Hogan (2) and Conor Martin both point to increase the gap to six.
Tipperary 0-5 Clare 0-1
8 mins – First point of the day for Clare comes from Podge Collins.
Kilkenny 0-19 Cork 0-13
51 mins – Cork grab a point back through Dean Brosnan but Richie Leahy quickly responds for Kilkenny.
Goal for Wexford from Diarmuid O’Keeffe!
Red card for Kerry’s Patrick Kelly!
Kilkenny 0-20 Cork 0-13
55 mins – Richie Leahy raises another white flag for Kilkenny with a glorious shot from the sideline.
Brilliant save by Anthony Nash to deny Colin Fennelly finding the net for Kilkenny.
Subs: Cork bring in Patrick Horgan and Stephen McDonnnell for Killian Burke and Shane Kingston.
Red card for Cork’s Cormac Murphy.
Tipperary 0-8 Clare 0-8
David Reidy brings the Banner level. They’ve recovered well from a bad start to this game.
Joe Canning and Conor Whelan goals for Galway.
Galway 3-29 Laois 1-10
Quite the beating Galway have handed out at Pearse Stadium today.
Result – Kilkenny 0-22 Cork 0-15
Result: Wexford 3-18 Kerry 0-12
Clare 0-11 Tipperary 0-10
John McGrath points a free and now there’s only one between them in Thurles.
Half-Time: Clare 0-11 Tipperary 0-10
Result: Galway 3-31 Laois 1-11
A good day’s work then in Division 1B for Galway and Wexford while Kilkenny claim their first victory of the campaign in Division 1A.
Clare 0-11 Tipperary 0-11
Noel McGrath brings Tipperary level early in the second half.
Tipperary 0-15 Clare 0-12
45 mins - Noel and John McGrath both point, three in it now.
Tipperary 0-19 Clare 0-15
55 mins – John McGrath fires over a point, he’s been excellent today.
Tipperary 0-22 Clare 0-15
60 mins – Tipperary pulling clear now, seven points to the good.
Tipperary 0-23 Clare 0-20
68 mins – Galvin has made a real impression since coming on, now only three between the sides.
Tipperary 0-27 Clare 0-20
71 mins – Tipperary putting the game to bed now, newcomer Paul Flynn on target.
Result: Tipperary 0-28 Clare 0-21
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40 wins in a row. My god. No wonder most ppl couldn’t give a flying fiddlers about Football anymore. Maybe just maybe, the Dubs might realise the Money, home advantage and population might be the reason to this. Or shall we just hope Wexford or Westmeath beat them next year?
@John Paul Mullins: if its money and population Cork should be doing well
@John Paul Mullins: the government gave Dublin the money, they did say yes please, they can’t control the population, Derry Mayo and Kerry have small populations and can beat Dublin in the top games, the Dublin team and supporters would love to come out of Croke park, but both Leinster council and Croke park want them to play there, population agreement would have Dublin winning hurling and camoige and under age football championships all the time, just saying
@real man: dublin has three times the population of cork.
@Martin Lonergan: Good man….. Keep up the top quality denial and delusion. Why would dublin young lads ever switch to hurling when the money is in the football. Smh!
@real man: Corks Population is a fraction of Dublins
@Barry Baz: Cork’s gaa playing population is the highest in the country.
@Martin Lonergan: The Gaa gave them the money.
I was in the Hill when Dublin missed a peno to beat Meath in a Leinster semi final in 97. The place was packed. And the three games that Meath played against Kildare after that was packed too. Those days are gone. Today’s crowd was embarrassing. We need something new.
@Andrew Smyth: *quarter final
@Andrew Smyth: offaly beat meath that year in leinster final I remember it well was on a Saturday night and roy malone scored two crackers.
@Paully kells: Offaly put Meath to the sword in the final ten minutes. All the games caught up with them. Probably the best Leinster Championship of my lifetime.
Nice to see dubs getting a leg up from the ref to allow 13 steps for first goal
@Tony McGrath: Even as a Dub I agree it was steps, but having said that it would’ve made zero difference to the outcome if we’re honest.
@Ultán Corcoran: Think the referees take into account the fact he was fouled while heading towards goal. Always play advantage and balance out one foul with the technical foul. That way he doesn’t stop a goal chance or stop the flow. Just a theory
Obviously the money and the resources dublin have puts them way ahead of most Leinster counties but the real story in Leinster is how bad meath and Kildare are, monaghan beat dublin in the league and with 5 minutes to go In the all ireland semi final last year were level, Derry beat dublin in the league final and have a genuine chance of winning the all ireland, neither of these counties have superior resources or tradition to meath or Kildare they have no reason bot be competitive
Meath has a bigger population than Kerry, Tyrone, Down & Mayo – all counties that have been competitive in the last few years. Maybe some inward reflection required on why they cant put a good squad together
@Owen ODonoghue: half of Dublin live in Meath and play with Dublin clubs!!
@Owen ODonoghue: maybe Dublin people have reallocate to Meath because of house prices.
No one outside leinster would watch it. Fair play to Colm for saying it as it is. Dublin doesn’t have a serious game until at least the all Ireland semi’s. Ulster is the only competing province now. Something needs to be done and fast
How about starting with moving the semis out of croker in 2 weeks time Leinster council?
The GAA is in a poor state ATM. The majority of games that took place today and last week are irrelevant, Dublin won’t be stopped in Leinster, Mayo/Galway won easy Connaught and Armagh won at a canter against Fermanagh.
I’m a GAA man but also an avid sports fan and it’s hard to watch GAA when the Premier League is coming to an exciting climax and one of the 4 majors in golf is on all weekend.
I turned Meath/Dublin on for 15 mins and went back to the Arsenal game as the outcome was always going to be one way.
The GAA has done this to itself in my opinion not changing with the times and sticking with the same old same old championship structure that has run its course.
Very sad to see
Provisional competitions need to be scrapped. A champions league style AI would be amazing… Play Provisional competitions as stand alone
The round Robin in hurling is the same. The bigger counties Will always come out on top.
Should have stayed on the Sunday game Colm you had all the answers on tv .
Not as easy on the sidelines.
Not Dublins fault Meath so poor.
@Tom Murphy: Colm is not a novice and knows GAA far more than most. He was only stating what everyone was thinking including Dessie Farrell. It is a total eff up. Sad day when people have to go to Google to try and unravel the ins and outs of the championship!!
@David Jackman: won’t 3 crash out