Weekend GAA: Throw-in times, team news, TV details

The hurling championship gets underway as the football league comes to a conclusion

Davy Fitzgerald calls for referees to let the game flow

Wexford boss concerned by the pattern of high free counts in recent games

Gaelic games previews: Limerick and Waterford meet in top of the table clash

Malachy Clerkin gives his verdicts on all the weekend hurling and football action

Champions Ballyhale Shamrocks made to work for victory by brave Slaughtneil

Colin Fennelly’s second goal late on gives Kilkenny side some breathing space

Borris-Ileigh back in a Munster final after 33 years

Tipperary champions see off Cork’s Glen Rovers at Semple Stadium

Aidan Nolan to miss Leinster final after match clock confusion

He came on for the final 15 minutes of the round-robin draw with Kilkenny

Limerick come in from the cold to make winning start

All-Ireland champions survive late charge by Wexford to take the points

Galway finally shake off Clare to set up final date with Limerick

Aron Shanagher had chance late on to steal a win for Clare at Semple Stadium

Clare pick up the pieces and book a return to headquarters

Banner bound for semi-final as they prove too strong for Fitzgerald’s Wexford

Your weekend football and hurling previews

Galway should have enough in reserve to retain their Leinster hurling title

Your weekend hurling previews

The round-robin series continues this weekend in both Munster and Leinster

St Kieran’s flirt with disaster in dramatic Croke Cup final

Athenry claw back 10-point deficit but lose out to Kieran’s in extra-time

UL crush DCU dream with Fitzgibbon Cup triumph

The Dublin university beaten by six points in their first appearance in competition final

Good and bad of 2017 piled up in a stack of match programmes

Arcane trivia, off-the-wall stuff to quirks and curios, programmes reflect the GAA year

All-Ireland hurling final referee to lose job in An Post cuts

Postman Fergal Horgan says he is ‘devastated’ by news weeks before Christmas

Peep went the All-Ireland whistle, and down on his knees went Joe Canning

David Burke was probably man of the match, but the Galway forward was the story

Tadhg de Búrca braced for prospect of costly one-game ban

Waterford defender facing likely minimum penalty following off-the-ball incident

Cork young bloods keep plucky Clare at a distance

Kieran Kingston’s team race to victory in Thurles, for 52nd Munster championship

Hurling previews: Cork express moving too fast for quickening Clare

Young Waterford side may struggle to wear down Kilkenny’s sturdy defence

Magnificent Wexford blow the summer wide open

Kilkenny decidedly second best at Wexford Park as Slaneysiders secure famous win

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