National Hurling Leagues 2026

the only way the gaa can help in my opinion is not through extra funding but to make sure the minority sport is not being walked on , it happened in laois with eddie brennan and it happened in offaly before that with a crazy pro football chairman from edenderry that nearly ruined hurling in the county

meath , kildare and laois all have strong hurling bases to work on , yes some of them are duel clubs but they defiantly have the numbers to be more competitive then they are , i remember about 25 years ago kildare winning a few all ireland b titles under age and expected them to make the breakthrough then but it never happened , we have seen it here in clare with davey fitz trying to stop clare football getting any money off the county board in his time as manager , its this kind of stuff thats holding back hurling in football counties

Waterford really should've beaten Killkenny in Nowlan Park. They're bound to get out of the group stage in Munster eventually. Of all the games Cork will be playing in Munster this year, Waterford in Walsh Park is the game i'm worried about the most. Cork would want to go into that game fully switched on. Any complacency and it could be very costly indeed.

Ah come on, that is bullshit. On the night Collins had so much Confidence in Dalton, that right through the first half he never pucked a single ball down between himself and Hayes. From his appearance over the past decade with Limerick, against really proven opponents, either as a back or forward, Hayes never threw himself down, why would he bother doing it against Dalton.

6 football matches being televised this weekend and one hurling match.......

I came on here to say the same. Disgraceful tbh. Great work to convince us a tv licence should be paid...

Cork must have done ferocious training since the tipp game considering all their absentees. Especially as most of them played in that game ( except harnedy). Although joyce, o mahony, p connelly and Brian Hayes returning balance that somewhat. Nowlan park will be a fair different tomorrow from the carpet like surface of puc. 50 /50 contest.

Galway waterford will be a slog with rain forecast all day for the west. Waterford panel seems to be getting stronger weekly. Although no sign of dessie on the line out.

Galway will likely go down if they don't win tomorrow. No daithi , gavin lee, Fleming or Rory burke . A concern I'd have for Galway is that rabbitte and niland are playing every match. With them being u20 and an intense schedule of matches at both grades, you'd think they could do with a few weeks off.

Have you seen the cork team though? 3 having their first league start. Weather will be leveller too

They got a goal themselves from one, so it cancels out.

Hayes was very good again and Cork really need him to stay fit. The goalkeeper position is still an area of concern, though. As for Kilkenny, they look a very average side at the moment.

I was at it, and I’m not sure how it came across on TV but the weather was absolutely atrocious. Very hard to play in tha.

i think it was 11 championship starters from cork and 9 for kilkenny , them players missing do make a huge difference , especially in the full back line , kilkenny were the more physical team but the quality of ball into the forwards was really poor