All-Ireland Hurling semi-finals: All you need to know

All-Ireland SHC semi-finals

SATURDAY

Kilkenny v Clare, Croke Park, 5.30pm

SUNDAY

Limerick v Galway, Croke Park, 3.30pm

ONLINE

Live tracker on Saturday and Sunday on RTÉ Sport Online and RTÉ News Now app.

TV

Live coverage of both All-Ireland semi-finals on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Saturday's coverage begins at 4.30pm, while it's a 2.30pm start on Sunday.

Both games will also be live on Sky Sports Arena.

Highlights of all the weekend's action on The Sunday Game, RTÉ2, 9.30pm.

RADIO

Live commentary and updates on RTÉ Radio 1 Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport.

WEATHER

Wet weather is due to clear Dublin on Saturday morning. Dry weather should follow for the whole weekend, with sunny intervals, and highs of 17 degrees.

Westerly winds will be light to moderate.

A detailed forecast can be found on met.ie.

A rare championship meeting

Clare were favourites coming into their All-Ireland quarter-final clash with Wexford and yet, for the best part of an hour, it looked as if the Model County were going to set up an intriguing all-Leinster last four clash.

It was only then though, with their backs against the wall, did we see the Banner begin to hit their marks as they blitzed Darragh Egan's men, hitting 1-06 without reply to turn the tie on its head.

While Waterford were seen at the start of the campaign as the biggest threat to Limerick's three-in-a-row bid, Clare have now taken up that mantle, and if they can perform like they did in the last ten minutes against Wexford they will be hard to stop on Saturday evening.

That said, their semi-final record isn't great with just two wins (2002 and 2013) in this century. In that time they've suffered three defeats and a draw (2018), while they've only beaten the Cats once in championship.

That was the 1997