Manchester City and Real Madrid played out a Champions League semi-final for the ages last night. It finished 4-3, “and it could have been anything” in the parlance of the football analyst – does Ken Early still give Real Madrid a rat’s chance of qualification?

 

Henry Shefflin welcomes Kilkenny to Pearse Stadium in Salthill for the most eagerly-anticipated game of the Leinster championship round-robin – but what can he do to instil some of his own most renowned characteristics as a player into a squad of Galway hurlers that have a habit of throwing away winning positions?

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Jamie Wall attempts to answer that question, questions whether Cork can beat Clare this weekend… and he takes a victory lap for his downbeat assessment of Tipperary last week.

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