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Kilkenny players, from left, Michael Brennan, Seán Bergin, Aaron McEvoy and Tom McPhillips with the cup after their side's victory in the oneills.com Leinster Championship final / SPORTSFILE

All You Need to Know: Kilkenny v Tipperary in the All-Ireland U20 Hurling final
Tipperary will face Kilkenny this Saturday at UPMC Nowlan Park in the All-Ireland U20 Hurling Championship final
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Kilkenny College players huddle after the Bank of Ireland Leinster Rugby Schools Senior Cup 1st Round match between Kilkenny College and Presentation College, Bray. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

Three Kilkenny school players named in IRFUs National Talent Squad Inductees for...

KIlkenny captain TJ Reid has been named on the All-Stars Hurling team for 2019

2021 GAA Championship draws to take place next week

T.J. Reid and his colleagues will have January 3 start in the Walsh Cup

2021 GAA Championship draws to take place next week

Basketball Ireland preparing a framework for return to sport

Gowran AC runner Billy Coogan delivered a superb performance when representing Kilkenny CBS at the All-Ireland Schools cross-country championships in Santry

Top of the class! Billy and Caoimhe are heading to Scotland!

The Kilkenny Firsts continued on their charge for a League and Cup double

Determined Firsts keep on course for Leinster League and Cup double

Lady Captain Eileen Healy and Men's Captain Seán Scanlan are whisked away for their official drive-in at Castlecomer golf club

All the golf news from Kilkenny

Pictured is All Ireland 4 Wall minor singles finalist Billy Drennan from Galmoy (left), who defeated Lorcan Conlon (Mayo) in the semi-finals

Amazing - the county earns shot at 14 finals

Pictured at the Borris Captains’ drive-in are incoming ladies Captain Margaret Brown and men’s Captain Denis O’Neill

All the golf news from Kilkenny

Sophie Becker (St Joseph’s) surges ahead of Charlene Mawdsley to win the women’s 400m title at the National Senior Indoor Championships. It was a first national senior indoor title for Becker

Brilliant Becker brings home the National Senior gold

Kilkenny will now play Carlow in the Leinster League final

Spirited performance leads Kilkenny to final
Leinster Under-18 League; Kilkenny 13; Athy 5
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Fixtures; semi-finals on the agenda for Kilkenny players

Success for Abbeyleix Hockey Club.

Hard-working Firsts can look forward to a Cup final

Pictured at the Launch of the ElectroCity tennis tournament were Nicky Reade (tournament organiser), Keith McCullagh (store manager) and Kilkenny LTC Captain, Helen Fitzgerald Picture: Harry Reid

Elements no match for hardy tennis players!

The Bord draws the lines for the 2020 action

The Kilkenny City Harriers boys’ under-15 relay team of Adam Slawinski, Alex Cullen, Sean Young and William Nugent won bronze medals in their final

McEvoy and Connolly to the fore on a superb weekend for county

Success for Abbeyleix Hockey Club.

Double delight for Thirds

Pictured at the Gowran Park golf club drive in 2020 were Pat Murphy, club President; Ger Treacy, club Captain, Catherine O'Driscoll, club Lady Captain and Conor Cleere, Junior Captain.

Kilkenny golf notes

A Paula Farrell goal couldn’t give Kilkenny victory

Firsts edged out in tense Trophy battle by Kildare

The Thomastown Paddlers pairing of Donnacha Brennan (right) and Tadgh de Barra are taking on the three-day Dusi river race in South Africa. The event features 120km of fast and challenging river

Paddlers take on the world in South Africa

Jack Walsh celebrates scoring his opening try. The young Mullinavat man has enjoyed a super season with Kilkenny Picture: Michael Brophy

Battling Kilkenny secure top flight Division 1A status

Leinster Four Wall under-16 doubles champions, Galmoy, pictured with defeated finalists Laois and referee Emmet Landy

A busy weekend of handball left plenty for Cats to celebrate Sport Reporter

Weekly golf notes

Kilkenny winners at the Leinster Athletics Awards. Sophie Jackman and Jordan Knight were among the individual winners, with Brow Rangers scooping a club title

Stars align in a great week for Kilkenny athletics

It is win or bust for Kilkenny rugby in Leinster

Pictured is Leinster 4 Wall minor singles champion, Billy Drennan from Galmoy. The talented handballer and Kilkenny hurler defeated Mark Doyle (Wexford) 21-11, 18-21, 21-5

Galmoy’s Drennan proves he is alley Cat

The Dicksboro team who won the Roinn A under-19 hurling championship on Saturday

’Boro round off fine season with battling victory in under-19 final

Kilkenny City Harriers athlete Brian Maher delivered a fantastic performance as he won the national masters cross-country title in Wicklow

Brian is Kilkenny’s running Maher-vel once again!

Bridie McGarry, Lady Captain with her husband Ben, family and extended family at the Kilkenny golf club 2020 Captains’ drive-in Picture: Michael Brophy

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Shirley Trimble and Catriona O’Flaherty, the winners of Section 2 in the American tournament, pictured with Melissa Quirke

Action warming up in the Frostbite League

The Kilkenny First team players celebrate scoring against Genesis in their Leinster League match Picture: Mark Desmond

Firsts forced to share the spoils in League draw

Olympian Fionnuala McCormack was announced as ambassador for the 2020 KIA Race Series Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Streets 5k to be a part of Kia Race Series in 2020

The Kilkenny rugby veterans who hosted Pro Recco Rugby team from Italy Picture: Harry Reid

A royal welcome for Italians before the Cats swing into rugby action

Pictured are the winners of the Leinster colleges four wall junior doubles championship, Cathal Buckley and John Hayes from St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny

All eyes now turn to Wexford and Westmeath

Kilkenny GAA fixtures

Anthony Cleere, Captain and Bridie McGarry, Lady Captain with Michael Grant, President and Carmel O’Shea, Lady President at the Kilkenny Golf Club 2020 Captains’ Drive-In Picture: Michael Brophy

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Thos Hayes, Kilkenny City Harriers, running to victory in the Milford Hospice 10k at the University of Limerick Picture: Keith Wiseman

Long weekend ends with plenty of Kilkenny success

Social tennis in Abbeyleix

Tennis swings into action

St Senan’s athlete Caoimhe Phelan (blue singlet) was the winner of the Junior Girls’ race at the East Munster Schools championships in Waterford. The races saw a number of top class performances

Clean sweep for Kieran’s and Loreto

Kyle Jordan, representing Grennan College, Thomastown won the All-Ireland second level colleges junior handball singles title on Saturday. He defeated Rory Carthy (Roscommon) in the final, 15-10, 15-3

Players strike gold in Kingscourt and Belfast

Soccer Fixtures and Results

The Conahy Shamrocks team who won the Permanent TSB under-19 Roinn D hurling county final

Conahy keep the good times rolling with good under-19 county victory

Kilkenny Golf Notes

Brow Rangers athletes Ciaran Coady, Patrick Darcy and Michael Sperrin, who represented the club at the national indoors junior and under-23 championships, which were held in the AIT Arena

Runaway county successes for Morgan and Kirwan

Sinead Connery got the first team rolling with the opening goal

Cats keep their cool with Cup double

Kilkenny’s Naomi Trait (left) pictured after finishing third in the 200m freestyle final

Naomi and Maria do well in Geneva

Winner of the girls 17 and under title at the She’s Ace handball weekend in Mayo was Noelle Dowling

Our young girls are made of champion stuff

St Martin’s captain, Jack Farrell, is presented with the winners trophy by Bord-na-nOg official, Patrick O’Flynn

Martin’s back to winning ways, at last

A group of boys who played in the under-13 doubles championship in which Kells beat Kilfane in the decider

The 4-Wall juveniles produce ace stuff as champions emerge

St Senan’s athletes Tadgh Connolly and David Williams were part of the Irish under-17 boys’ team who claimed bronze at the Celtic International in Scotland

Success in Scotland and glory in Gowran for Kilkenny athletes

The new officers at Kilkenny Golf Club (from left:) Anthony Cleere, Captain; Bridie McGarry, Lady Captain; Carmel O’Shea, Lady President and Michael Grant, President Picture: Michael Brophy

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