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After the bitter frustration and disappointment of last year’s narrow defeat in the All-Ireland final to Kilkenny, Galway minor manager Mattie Murphy and his minor charges head to Croke Park this Sunday hoping to collect the 2009 title and gain a measure of revenge for last year’s defeat.

Hurling legend Ollie Walsh would have loved the four-in-a-row hype.

Fans and supporters of Kilkenny coach, Brian Cody are waiting with bated breath for the release of his new autobiography, Cody, on September 28 next.

All-time Senior Hurling Championship top-scorer Henry Shefflin says that this Sunday’s All-Ireland final offers an unusual pairing, despite both Kilkenny and Tipperary being two of the superpowers of hurling.

A power-packed display from start to finish propelled Garrycastle into this year’s county decider in impressive fashion. This game had the potential to be the game of the championship but in truth, given its one-sided nature, it failed to live up to its billing.

A Kilkenny goalie who liked to have a tipple or two before throw-in features in a new book about Ireland’s Gaelic Games.

Last Sunday was a fantastic day for Galway hurling.Winning a hurling All-Ireland final, senior, u-21, or minor is a wonderful thing for a county, but beating Kilkenny in the final at Croke Park makes it a little sweeter.

Well done to Mattie Murphy for the invaluable commitment and service he has given to Galway hurling for the past few decades. To manage your county to five All-Ireland minor titles is a magnificent achievement and hopefully there will be more to come. He was very astute and cool on the sideline again last weekend and he made some terrific tactical adjustments in the last quarter when things needed to be freshened up. It is hard to beat experience, especially in the cauldron of Croke Park on All-Ireland final day and Murphy has it in spades now.

Kilkenny natives have more online social networking friends than their Leinster neighbours in Laois and Wexford, and their hurling neighbours in Limerick, according to a survey commissioned by 3, Ireland’s market leader in mobile broadband.

Kilkenny have turned 2009 into their greatest ever year and have also completed the greatest decade in their illustrious history.