SATURDAY
Leinster SHC round 4
Antrim v Galway, Corrigan Park, 2pm
Dublin v Kilkenny, Parnell Park, 6pm
Joe McDonagh Cup round 4
Laois v Down, Laois Hire O'Moore Park, 3pm
Westmeath v Meath, TEG Cusack Park, 6pm
Christy Ring Cup round 5
London v Kildare, Ruislip, 1pm
Sligo v Derry, Markievicz Park, 1pm
Tyrone v Wicklow, Carrickmore, 1pm
Nickey Rackard Cup round 5
Louth v Donegal, Dowdallshill, 2pm
Armagh v Monaghan, Box-It Athletic Grounds, 2pm
Roscommon v Mayo, Dr Hyde Park, 1pm
Lory Meagher Cup round 5
Longford v Fermanagh, Glennon Bros Pearse Park, 1pm
Leitrim v Cavan, Drumshanbo, 1pm
Lancashire v Warwickshire, Pairc na hEireann, 2pm
SUNDAY
Munster SHC round 4
Clare v Waterford, Cusack Park, 2pm
Tipperary v Cork, FBD Semple Stadium, 4pm
Leinster SHC round 4
Carlow v Wexford, Netwatch Cullen Park, 3pm
Joe McDonagh Cup round 4
Offaly v Kerry, Glenisk O'Connor Park, 1pm
Christy Ring Cup round 4
Wicklow v Sligo, Aughrim, 2pm
ONLINE
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TV
Clare v Waterford and Tipperary v Cork live on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Dublin v Kilkenny live on GAAGO.
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RADIO
Live commentaries and updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport, and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta's Spórt an tSathairn and Spórt an Lae.
WEATHER
Saturday: Overall a good deal of dry weather with just a few light showers mainly in the south and east. Highest temperatures generally 17 to 21 degrees but a little cooler in the north and northwest with a light or moderate northerly breeze.
Sunday: A mostly dry day with sunny spells and just an isolated shower possible in the northwest. Highs of 17 to 21 or 22 degrees Celsius with light northerly or variable breezes. For more, visit met.ie.
Table-toppers meet in Leinster
The most entertaining Leinster championship in years continues on Saturday. We might still end up with the Kilkenny-Galway + Dublin/Wexford order of the last two years but at least there have been a few surprises on the way.
Not least promoted Carlow securing a superb draw against the four-in a-row provincial champions Kilkenny last weekend.
Dublin reasserted their credentials with a thumping win over Antrim that took them top and Micheál Donoghue's men could put one foot in the final if they beat the Cats at Parnell Park.
The expected backlash from last week aside, history is not in the Dubs' favour. They have beaten Kilkenny just once in championship in the last 82 years - the 2013 Leinster semi-final replay - and have not scored a goal in this fixture since 2020, though they have raised six green flags in three games so far this term.
Derek Lyng has named Mikey Carey and Eoin Cody in the starting XV, despite previous fears the All-Star forward could miss the rest of the provincial campaign with an ankle problem sustained in round one. Walter Walsh, Richie Reid and Adrian Mullen remain out.
Dublin bring Ronan Hayes into the forwards in place of Paul Crummey.
Henry Shefflin's Galway have been in unconvincing form so far. They took their time to get going against Carlow in Pearse Stadium before an eventual 11-point win, dug out a draw in injury-time against a Kilkenny team missing key men and were outfought in Wexford last time out.
Wins against Antrim and Dublin would still be enough to ensure qualification, though not necessarily a place in a final, but Corrigan Park is a tricky place to travel to.
Darren Gleeson's side have been hammered twice on the road but they shocked Wexford in Belfast in round two and drew with Dublin there last year.
The Tribesmen won the teams' last two meetings by 19 (championship) and 25 (league) points but you would expect a closer contest this time at least.
Sean Linnane and David Burke start in place of Gearoid McInerney and Brian Concannon, the later having injured his hamstring, as has Cathal Mannion.
Antrim: Ryan Elliott; Conor Boyd, Niall O'Connor, Paddy Burke; Gerard Walsh, Ryan McGarry, Conal Bohill; Eoghan Campbell, Keelan Molloy; Nigel Elliott, Michael Bradley, Niall McKenna; Conal Cunning, Seaan Elliott, James McNaughton.
Subs: Cormac McFadden, Rory McCloskey, Phelim Duffin, Scott Walsh, Paul Boyle, Fred McCurry, Seán McKay, Conor McCann, Joseph McLaughlin, Rian McMullan, Aodhan O'Brien.
Galway: Darach Fahy; Jack Grealish, Daithi Burke, Fintan Burke; Seán Linnane, Padraic Mannion, Cianan Fahy; David Burke, Ronan Glennon; Gavin Lee, Tom Monaghan, Joseph Cooney; Conor Whelan, Conor Cooney, Evan Niland.
Subs: Eanna Murphy, Eoin Lawless, Adrian Tuohey, Shane Cooney, Gearóid McInerney, Donal O'Shea, Tiernan Killeen, Jonathan Glynn, Jamie Ryan, Jason Flynn, Declan McLoughlin.
On Sunday, Carlow will be aiming to earn more points at Netwatch Cullen Park, this time against Wexford, who are as unpredictable as an internet portal audience.
So far, Keith Rossiter's men have: thrown away a lead to draw with Dublin, lost in Antrim and won against Galway.
With a 22-point gap to make up to Dublin, Wexford need a big victory, otherwise they are looking at repeating last year's final-day heroics in Kilkenny.
A hammering seems unlikely given how competitive Carlow have been, especially at home, where they were only five-point losers to the Dubs before holding Kilkenny thanks to Marty Kavanagh's late free.
Simon Donohoe returns to the Wexford midfield, while Cathal Dunbar deputises for the suspended Cian Byrne. The hamstring injury that forced Jack O'Connor off against Galway rules the St Martin's clubman out.
Carlow: Brian Tracey; Paul Doyle, Dion Wall, Niall Bolger; Tony Lawlor, Kevin McDonald, Fiachra Fitzpatrick; Jack Kavanagh, Richard Coady; John Michael Nolan, Ciarán Whelan, Conor Kehoe; Chris Nolan, Marty Kavanagh, James Doyle.
Subs: Ciarán Abbey, Conor Lawlor, Jack McCullagh, Jake Doyle, Evan Kealy, Scott Treacy, Paddy Boland, John Doyle, Fiach O'Toole, Paidi O'Shea, Donagh Murphy.
Wexford: Mark Fanning; Shane Reck, Conor Foley, Eoin Ryan; Liam Ryan, Damien Reck, Matthew O'Hanlon; Conor Hearne, Simon Donohoe; Richie Lawlor, Lee Chin, Liam Óg McGovern; Cathal Dunbar, Conor McDonald, Rory O'Connor.
Subs: Aaron Duggan, Séamus Casey, Mikie Dwyer, Kevin Foley, Conor Devitt, Niall Murphy, Darragh Carley, Tomás Kinsella, Charlie McGuckin, Paudie Casey, James Byrne.
Back in Munster, we continue to expect the unexpected - as a much-maligned GAA slogan should have read.
The expectation would have been for Cork to crumble when Limerick erased their eight-point half-time lead last weekend, as Clare did having been nine up against the champions, but the Rebels fought to the end and got their rewards with an injury-time winning penalty dispatched by Patrick Horgan.
Like last year, Limerick have been put under intense pressure in Munster. But they have this weekend off to recover and John Kiely will be happy to have banked four points given they trailed heavily in two out of three games.
It was do or die for Pat Ryan's side, having lost to Waterford and the Banner, and it's essentially the same situation against Tipperary on Sunday, though a draw would leave them with a (very) slim chance of snatching third.
There was a lot to admire in Cork's display last weekend when young guns Shane Barrett, Alan Connolly and Brian Hayes played as big a role as the veterans in creating space rarely seen in the Limerick defence.
Liam Cahill will have noted with interest how the Treaty twice scored goals having picked Sean O'Donoghue's pocket at short puckouts but also that O'Donoghue, along with Mark Coleman, kept reigning Hurler of the Year Aaron Gillane scoreless from play.
Thousands of fans spilled onto the Páirc Uí Chaoimh pitch at the final whistle and they are likely to outnumber their hosts at Semple Stadium - despite Cahill this week exhorting Tipperary supporters to "get in behind them, support them and try and future-proof Tipperary hurling going forward and hopefully pick up a bit of silverware."
That might suggest he doesn't see success this season as realistic. But perhaps it also reflects that just how good Tipp are remains a mystery, even to themselves.
They were sluggish and sloppy in defeat to Limerick but rallied well to snatch a draw in Walsh Park, having been somewhat unlucky to trail by four heading into injury-time.
Cork are now deserving favourites but their opponents have had an extra week to recover and prepare. A win would ignite Tipperary's season. Lose and they are out with a round still to play. Draw and their -15 points difference means they would probably need to beat Clare on the last day.
Cahill will hope for more from long-time sharpshooter Jason Forde, who appears to have lost his confidence and usual dead eye at placed balls, and Jake Morris, though the latter did land three points from play against the Déise, having failed to score against Limerick.
Both teams are unchanged but Ciarán Joyce has recovered from a hamstring strain sufficiently to force his was onto the Cork bench.
Tipperary: Barry Hogan; Cathal Barrett, Ronan Maher, Craig Morgan; Michael Breen, Bryan O'Mara, Conor Bowe; Alan Tynan, Eoghan Connolly; Gearóid O'Connor, Jason Forde, Noel McGrath; Jake Morris, Mark Kehoe, Darragh Stakelum.
Subs: Rhys Shelly, Paddy Cadell, Willie Connors, Seán Hayes, Seánie Kenneally, Patrick Maher, Dan McCormack, John McGrath, Andrew Ormond, Johnny Ryan, Conor Stakelum.
Cork: Patrick Collins; Niall O'Leary, Eoin Downey, Seán O'Donoghue; Tim O'Mahony, Robert Downey, Mark Coleman; Ethan Twomey, Darragh Fitzgibbon; Declan Dalton, Shane Barrett, Séamus Harnedy; Patrick Horgan, Alan Connolly, Brian Hayes.
Subs: Brion Saunderson, Eoin Roche, Ger Mellerick, Tommy O'Connell, Ciarán Joyce, Luke Meade, Conor Cahalane, Shane Kingston, Jack O'Connor, Conor Lehane, Seán Twomey.
Earlier in the day, the province's only unbeaten team, Waterford, travel to Clare, runners-up in the last two Munster finals.
Waterford were not particularly fancied to improve on last year's two-point haul following a glum league campaign but the return to fitness of stalwarts like Tadhg de Burca and Stephen Bennett helped them to spring a surprise against Cork, and Davy Fitzgerald's men were seconds away from making it two home wins from two against Tipperary.
He will hope that taking one point rather than two from that game is not the difference between a first round-robin qualification and a fifth successive failure.
Both teams are close to full strength; Waterford have had two weeks off since that drawing while Clare, who got back on track against Cork, have had three. Tony Kelly has only played 20 minutes so far, having missed the Cork game with an ankle injury - he underwent ankle surgery over the winter - but is named on the bench as Darragh Lohan returns to the XV in midfield.
Waterford have made one enforced change, Jack Fagan replacing the injured Conor Prunty in defence and Mark Fitzgerald moving to full-back.
Victory for Davy over his native county would all but guarantee Waterford a Munster final spot - unless Tipp shoot the lights out in their final two games - which would be quite the achievement after three rounds.
But it's also another chance for Brian Lohan's side to prove they are the true pretenders to Limerick's throne. A draw or Clare win could mean a three-way tie at the top of the table by Sunday evening.
Clare: Eibhear Quilligan; Adam Hogan, Conor Cleary, Rory Hayes; Diarmuid Ryan, John Conlon, David McInerney; David Fitzgerald, Darragh Lohan; Cathal Malone, Mark Rodgers, Peter Duggan; Aidan McCarthy, Shane O'Donnell, David Reidy.
Subs: Cian Broderick, Conor Leen, Paul Flanagan, Séadna Morey, Cian Galvin, Paddy Donnellan, Ian Galvin, Aron Shanagher, Shane Meehan, Robin Mounsey, Tony Kelly.
Waterford: Shaun O'Brien; Kieran Bennett, Mark Fitzgerald, Iarlaith Daly; Jack Fagan, Tadhg de Búrca, Calum Lyons; Darragh Lyons, Jamie Barron; Jack Prendergast, Neil Montgomery, Michael Kiely; Dessie Hutchinson, Stephen Bennett, Kevin Mahony.
Subs: Billy Nolan, Ian Kenny, Conor Ryan, Mairtín Power, Patrick Curran, Patrick Fitzgerald, Shane Bennett, Peter Hogan, Padraig Fitzgerald, Paddy Leavey, Tom Barron.
In the Joe McDonagh Cup, leaders Laois (6 points) will seal their spot in the final with a round to spare if they beat Down (3). But a win for the Mournemen would put them back in contention as Offaly and Kerry (both 4) meet on Sunday. Last year's Leinster participants Westmeath (1) are surprisingly still without a victory but could ensure pointless neighbours Meath are relegated instead by taking the points at TEG Cusack Park.
Going into the last round of the Christy Ring Cup, a healthy +66 scoring difference means unbeaten Kildare (8 points) look good to reach the final, barring a big defeat against London (6) in Ruislip.
Derry (also 6) beat the Exiles last time out so have the edge on the head to head but are 14 points worse off and will need to score heavily at relegation favourites Sligo (0) in case a three-way tie ensues. Wicklow's meeting with Tyrone (both 2) will decide the fourth and fifth placings unless Sligo spring a surprise.
Winning four from four means Donegal are guaranteed a place in the Nickey Rackard Cup final regardless of how they fare in Louth (2 points). Roscommon and Mayo (both 6) meet in Dr Hyde Park for what is essentially a semi-final. Monaghan (0) need to win in Armagh (2) and hope Louth get a result if they are to avoid the drop.
Fermanagh (7 points) lead the way in the Lory Meagher Cup and will be in the final unless they lose to second-place Longford (6 points) and Cavan (5) make up a 28-point difference in beating Leitrim. Cavan can catch Longford if Fermanagh win but would be pipped on the head-to-head if both teams finished on seven points. Lancashire and Warwickshire face off in Páirc na hÉireann to avoid the wooden spoon.
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