ASSIGNMENTS in championship hurling don’t get much tougher than Kilkenny away, but Antrim will relish Sunday’s trip to Noreside for their opening fixture in Leinster’s round robin.
IT'S a big hurling weekend in Antrim with the Saffrons facing Kilkenny at Nowlan Park in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship on Sunday, so the majority of this week's club fixtures take place on Saturday (times and dates subject to change).
A BLISTERING 10 minutes in the second half when they rattled off nine points without reply saw St Brigid's maintain their 100 per cent record in Division One at Musgrave Park on Wednesday.
THE pendulum swung the way of St John's down the stretch as they made it two wins from two in Antrim hurling's Division One at the expense of Rosa at Corrigan Park on Sunday.
IN the end, Down made their way into the semi-finals of the Ulster Senior Football Championship, but their five-point win over a dogged Antrim was far from convincing in a game that won't live long in the memory.
THE opening weekend of the provincial football championships served up shocks aplenty, so will we see the early trend continue in Newry on Saturday when Antrim travel to face Down, or have the Mournemen been forewarned?
HAVING both won their openers against Dunloy and Cushendall respectively, the derby meeting of St John’s and Rossa at Corrigan Park on Sunday holds a little extra intrigue.
A GRASSROOTS GAA organisation comprising of thousands of Gaels – including well known hurling, football and camogie stars – have written to the new Taoiseach calling on the Irish government to formulate a Citizens' Assembly on "an agreed shared Ireland".
WITH the League now in the rearview, Antrim’s footballers have had little time to reflect as attention swiftly turns to Saturday’s Ulster quarter-final against Down in Newry.
THE contrasting starts to the season for St John's and St Brigid's continued at a windy Corrigan Park on Sunday as the hosts slipped to a third defeat, while the Biddies Madde it three wins from three.
