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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Stone wall peno.
Sure what’s the worst that could happen? Not like he’ll be punished for acting like a little cheat and given a fine or suspension, is it? Just like what’s wrong with still making ‘Monkey chants’? Sure what’s the worst that could happen? Not like you’ll be banned from your Club or your Club given a massive fine for tolerating it. Two disgusting acts of cheating and racism last night but you can be sure Uefa won’t do a thing about it!
Football is getting worse and worse in terms of on and off field behaviour and becoming increasingly harder to watch because of it!
That has to be the worst one ever ….
There’s a new one now. The I’ll stop playing cos I reckon I’ve been fouled scenario. Player stops with flailing hands, ref hesitates then blows up cos something “must’ve happened”. Football is getting more & more embarrassing by the day, look at Ronaldo last night.
At least there was contact with Ronaldo even though it was minimal but until they start to ban players for diving it won’t stop
What a clown, looking for a penalty….
This is so silly and annoying to watch but Ronaldos was way worse. Got a man sent off and next match ban. Its blatant cheating and needs to be stopped.
Illiarmendi taps his kicking foot, reaction is overplayed but would still have been well off balance. The red card should be the real talking point, complete nonsense.
He may well have been ever-so-slightly clipped so perhaps we’re being harsh here….obvs it’s still not a pen
He is off balance having being fouled