THE ALL-IRELAND senior club finals take centre stage next weekend in Croke Park with both games live on TG4.
Cork’s Sarsfields play Dublin’s Na Fianna in the hurling final at 1.30pm, before Dublin’s Cuala play Tyrone’s Errigal Ciarán in the football decider at 3.40pm.
There will be new champions crowned in both codes as all four clubs are competing at the final of their respective code for the first time.
Before that there’s Sigerson Cup action on Tuesday and Wednesday, with four games in Round 2A and four games in Round 2B.
Then in the Fitzgibbon Cup, there are three games down for decision on Wednesday, and two on Thursday as the group stage action commences in the third-level hurling competition.
Here’s the full list of what’s in store:
Tuesday 14 January
Sigerson Cup
Round 2B
- MTU Kerry v UCC, MTU Kerry, Tralee, 7pm.
Wednesday 15 January
Sigerson Cup
Round 2A
- Ulster University v University of Limerick, Abbotstown, 7pm
- MTU Cork v TUS Midlands, MTU Cork, 7.15pm.
- TU Dublin v St Mary’s Belfast, Grangegorman, 7.15pm.
- UCD v DCU, Belfield, 7.45pm - HEC YouTube.
Round 2B
- ATU Sligo v ATU Galway, ATU Sligo, 7pm.
- University of Galway v Queens University Belfast, Templeport, Cavan, 7pm.
- Maynooth University v ATU Donegal, Maynooth, 7.15pm.
Fitzgibbon Cup
Round 1
- UCC v UCD, Mardyke, 5.30pm.
- ATU Galway v MIC Limerick, Liam Mellows GAA, Galway, 7pm.
- UL v SETU Waterford, UL Grounds, Limerick, 7.30pm.
Thursday 16 January
Fitzgibbon Cup
Round 1
- TUS Midwest v DCU, TUS Midwest, Limerick, 7pm.
- University of Galway v MTU Cork, Dangan, Galway, 7.30pm.
Sunday 19 January
All-Ireland club senior hurling final
- Na Fianna (Dublin) v Sarsfields (Cork), Croke Park, 1.30pm, (Ref: Liam Gordon, Galway) – TG4.
All-Ireland club senior football final
- Cuala (Dublin) v Errigal Ciarán (Tyrone), Croke Park, 3.40pm, (Ref: Paddy Neilan, Roscommon) - TG4.
Absolute legend. Hopefully he gets an amazing reception in the stadium.
Fascinating listening to JT and Murray talking in the podcast about Joe’s ability to find any weakness in a side and exploit it, like 2 of the NZ qtr final tries against us. Should be interesting to see what he picks out in young Sam’s game. A pity winning has to matter so much as it would have been a great learning test to see what he would do against a starting Casey, Izzy, Gus, O’Toole, etc….
Agreed Carmine. Any Aviva crowd owes Joe a big reception. He developed the confidence in our team to challenge the best in the world – at least in the rankings. He gave this entire generation the space & tools to be the best version of themselves. And above all he was always a gentleman.
He should get a brilliant reception and if he doesn’t I’ll be mortified. Got so much to be thankful to him for, instilling that training should be top notch. Was just listening to Ian Madigan on Indo pod, even his description of rucking, ball presentation and walk throughs was super..