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Snow gone — turkey gone — Game on! That’s the message coming loud and clear from Foulkstown this week. This weekend sees a return to the Leinster League after the recent Arctic conditions and, of course, the Christmas revelries.

Kilkenny RFC’s firsts maintained their impressive home form at the start of the new season with victory over Edenderry in the Leinster league on a bright, sunny autumn day in Foulkstown.

Kilkenny 10-5 Arklow Amazon’s

Kilkenny’s women opened their season with a closely fought game against Mullingar in the first game of this blitz fixture at Barnhall RFC in Leixlip.

Joe Schmidt, the new coach of Leinster rugby, showed this week he had not forgotten his midland connections as he brought the entire Leinster panel to Mullingar rugby club for a full and rigorous training session on bank holiday Monday.

The Leinster League campaign had finished some weeks ago but with Kilkenny finishing in third position their future for next season was unclear. However, this was clarified last weekend when Navan were promoted to the AIL and Kilkenny were promoted to division 1.

Having had almost four weeks break due to match cancellations, Kilkenny under-15s were back in action on Saturday in the South East League tie away to Tullow RFC. With this resounding victory, Kilkenny now top their section with only one game left (Arklow - November 14) to play having beaten all contenders to date.

Mullingar RFC will enter the next level for a progressive club when it plays its first ever Leinster League game under its brand-new €220,000 floodlights this Saturday (November 7).