MOUNT LEINSTER RANGERS 0-13 ROBERT EMMETS (LONDON) 0-11
MOUNT Leinster Rangers’ hopes of a first ever All Ireland intermediate hurling title are still alive after this heart-stopping semi-final in Parnell Park on Sunday.
CARLOW 0-11 UCD 2-13
THE unfamiliar setting of IT Carlow on a soft Friday night saw Kevin Ryan’s Carlow senior hurlers kick off the new season with an eight-point defeat to UCD in the first round of the Walsh Cup.
SHORT two key forwards in Willie Hickey and Paul Coady the pressure was on the Rangers attack to produce the goods.
YET again Carlow played second best to college opposition.
OUTGOING St Patrick’s GFC chairman Chris Murphy has agreed to take the chair for one more year.
MICKY Ruben may have been shivering on his arrival to St Laurence O’Toole’s athletics club on Saturday morning but he and over 100 athletes and coaches who had come to hear him speak were soon warming up as the Trinidad and Tobago native took a hands-on workshop on how to build strength for speed.
CO CARLOW 31 PORTLAOISE 0
CARLOW have an outside chance of securing a promotion play-off spot thanks to this easy win in Oak Park on Sunday when they accounted for relegation-destined Portlaoise.
CLONDALKIN 37 TULLOW 29
TULLOW look destined for a relegation play-off after this disappointing league defeat to Clondalkin in Kingswood on Sunday.
CARLOW look to bridge a six-year gap by qualifying for the Oscar Traynor Cup semi-final when they take on Wexford in Graiguecullen on Saturday.
THREE Carlow girls have reached the pinnacle of their chosen sport of acrobatic gymnastics.