Sunday 21 January All-Ireland club hurling final O'Loughlin Gaels (Kilkenny) v St Thomas' (Galway), Croke Park, 1.30pm ONLINE Live blog on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app RADIO Live updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Sunday Sport on FM from 2pm.
Listen to full coverage on Radio 1 Extra (which you can find on the RTE Radio app and the RTE Website) from 1.25pm TV Live coverage on TG4 from 1pm WEATHER The cold snap will be well and truly over by Sunday with highs of 13 degrees possible in the afternoon.
Alas the dry weather is also set to go with rain due during the afternoon, alongside strong breezes.A detailed forecast is available on met.ie.The biggest day in the club hurling calendar will see O'Loughlin Gaels of Kilkenny take on Galway's St Thomas' for the Tommy Moore Cup.Kilkenny clubs have won more All-Ireland club hurling titles than any other county (see also All-Ireland inter-county titles) but O'Loughlin Gaels are going for their first on Sunday.Galway clubs, although they've appeared in more deciders than sides from Kilkenny, have a combined total of 13, which is one less than those ravenous Leinster cats.What St Thomas' have over O'Loughlin Gaels though is a set of winners' medals.
That came back in 2013 after a narrow victory over Offaly's Kilcormac-Killoughey. They also reached the showpiece game six years later but there they met an inspired Ballyhale Shamrocks side.The Gaels' only trip to the final saw them lose out to Galway opposition in the form of Clarinbridge back in 2011.All things considered, something has got to give at Croke Park tomorrow afternoon.Thomas' come into the game having dominated the Galway club scene for the last half decade.