SATURDAY
Leinster football final
Athy v Ballyboden St Enda's, Croke Park, 4.30pm
Leinster hurling final
St Martin's v Ballyhale Shamrocks, Croke Park, 6.30pm
SUNDAY
Munster football final
Daingean Uí Chúis v St Finbarr's, FBD Semple Stadium, 1.30pm
TV
RTÉ will broadcast a live double header of the Leinster football and hurling finals from Croke Park on Saturday, with coverage commencing at 4.15pm on RTÉ2.
TG4 will have live coverage of Sunday's Munster decider between Daingean Uí Chúis and St Finbarr's, starting at 1pm.
ONLINE
Live updates of all three senior provincial finals across Saturday and Sunday, followed by reports and reaction on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app.
RADIO
Live commentaries and updates on Saturday Sport & Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 - and Spórt an tSathairn and Spórt an Lae on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.
WEATHER
Saturday: From afternoon onwards, there should be more in the way of bright or sunny spells developing, especially further south, with showers becoming isolated. Highest temperatures of 10 or 11 degrees.
Sunday: Currently it looks like further outbreaks of rain will push up from the south and will be heavy at times, especially in the east and northeast. A clearance to brighter spells with scattered showers will extend from the west later. Highest temperatures of 8 to 12 degrees. See met.ie for more.
Can Athy stem the tide of Dublin dominance?
One has to go back to 2018 and tiny Mullinalaghta for the last time a club outside of the capital has claimed the Leinster crown.
That was greeted as a nationwide sensation at the time, that possibly the smallest club in the smallest county (Longford) in the province could take down Kilmacud Crokes, the most decorated of the Dublin 'super-clubs'.
The result caught the imagination to such an extent that the next day's Six One sport news was broadcast from Mullinalaghta, with our colleague Eamon Horan pulling on their maroon jersey at the end of his report, surrounded by excitable locals, while the team themselves were paraded at the next Late Late Show.
Since then, the Dublin clubs have had it all their own way, arguably culminating in last January's All-Ireland double in both codes.
Ballyboden kick-started the current run, beating faded aristocrats Éire Óg in a dreary provincial decider in 2019. After that, we had the Covid interruption, followed by an era of Kilmacud dominance, with Cuala scooping the lot in 2024-25.
The south Dublin club had been hotly tipped at the start of the club season, though they made heavy weather of their county title quest at times, labouring past Castleknock in a very low-scoring (by 2025 standards) quarter-final.
They had four points to spare over Na Fianna in a wet Saturday evening final, their marked advantage in the middle third of the field eventually telling as the game wore on.
In the absence of Ryan Basquel, Colm was to the fore, scoring 0-02 and winning a glut of frees, which were converted by Daire Sweeney. Galway midfielder Céin D'Arcy, who was tending to drift into the full-forward line in the second half, bulleted home the crucial goal.
Nowadays, the Dublin champions are automatically installed as favourites for the Leinster championship, though something about Athy's progress in the province has given people pause for thought. However, Ballyboden did bolster their credentials with a 15-point hammering of Tullamore the last time out.
The Offaly champions had been considered dangerous after running Cuala close 12 months ago but Boden, with Ryan Basquel back in tow, had no such trouble.
Athy haven't had much trouble of their own on the other side of the draw.
Having shocked four-in-a-row chasing Naas in a titanic Kildare final, they have swanned through Leinster so far.
Baltinglass, Summerhill and Portarlington have all been dismissed with comfort, the former two by double-digit margins, the latter by eight points.
Kildare inside-forward Niall Kelly racked up 0-10 in the semi-final, six coming from play, while David Hyland landed a couple of two-pointers.
This year's Tailteann Cup-winning captain Kevin Feely mans the midfield.
Moorefield, back in 2017, were the last Kildare club to win the Leinster title, edging out St Loman's in dramatic fashion.
In latter years, the Dublin champions v the Kildare champions has become the default Leinster club final, a state of affairs which may well endure if the GAA's much publicised demographic report is any guide.
Naas fell short in finals twice to Kilmacud in the 2020s. It would cap a decent year for Kildare, after several miserable ones, if Athy can plunder the county's fourth Leinster club title on Saturday afternoon.
Geaney's Daingean Uí Chúis face off against Cork bluebloods
It's already been a monumental year for Daingean Uí Chúis, who won the Kerry title for the first time since 1948 thanks to two late goals from talisman Paul Geaney in the final against Austin Stacks.
Geaney collected his third All-Ireland medal with Kerry this summer, though was a bit-part player after picking up an injury in the group stage.
The club triumph easily made up for any nagging annoyance on that front, with Geaney proclaiming it as "one of the best days of my life."
"This is maybe our ninth major final as a club. This was our fourth county final," Geaney told RTÉ Sport. "We had a Munster final against Castlehaven. We came out the wrong side of penalties. And we had four [Kerry] club finals as well.
"So we felt as a group, we were underachieving a little bit. And we just had a confidence that today was going to be our day."
The 2023 Munster final defeat to Castlehaven was especially brutal, with Daingean Uí Chúis not even having a Kerry county championship to console them that year - they qualified by virtue of their win in the separate Kerry club championship, with county champions East Kerry ineligible due to their status as a divisional entity. (The divisional structure being simultaneously the primary reason for Kerry's underwhelming performance in the Munster senior club championship).
On a wet, windy day in Limerick, the game famously went all the way to penalties.
The Cork champions opted to switch the goalkeeper for the shootout, inter-county hurler Damien Cahalane moving from centre-back to keeper in place of Darragh Cahalane. The reasoning being that the former had won an SFAI National Cup at Under-16 as a soccer goalkeeper.
He saved Tom O'Sullivan's effort, with Dylan and Mikey Geaney both missing as Daingean Uí Chúis denied in agonising fashion.
There are five Geaneys on the team altogether - Paul, Dylan, Conor, Mikey and Niall - alongside a pair of O'Sullivans - Tom and Tom Leo.
The club is very much within the Kerry Gealtacht, and thus we're precluded by law from using its name in English, which rhymes with jingle.
Unsurprisingly, it's Cork opposition awaiting them again in the final.
The Barrs - always and ever Cork GAA royalty - are seeking their sixth Munster football title, their last win coming back in 2021, when they turned over Austin Stacks in the final.
Curiously, or perhaps not, the Togher-based club have won more Munster football titles than Munster hurling titles, despite having far more hurling crowns at county level - possibly reflecting the difficulty of the Munster hurling championship and Cork's struggles in it since the 70s.
They edged out old foes Nemo Rangers in a blockbuster Cork senior final, with substitute Cillian Myers Murray curling over the winner at the death.
Hurler of the Year nominee Brian Hayes has reminded everyone in the club season that he's every inch a dual star, scoring 1-02 in the Cork decider and then burying a hat-trick against Clonmel Commercials the last time out.
The Barr's history remains almost peerless, with three All-Ireland football titles and two All-Ireland hurling titles, all won between 1975 and 1987. They came close to winning the double in 1981, only for Ballyhale to intervene.
A symbol of those gilded days still stalks the sidelines, with the great Jimmy Barry Murphy back as a selector with the footballers this year.
Martin's seeking landmark success against scions of club hurling
In the midst of a relatively lean era for Wexford hurling, some shafts of light.
St Martin's, based in the village of Piercestown, south of Wexford, have taken down the reigning All-Ireland champions Na Fianna and easily accounted for Naas to become the first Wexford club to pitch up in a Leinster senior final since Oulart-The Ballagh in 2015.
Oulart, of course, had plenty of demons in Leinster deciders, having lost three on the bounce in the early 2010s, including, infamously, to Mount Leinster Rangers at the end of 2013. They finally saw off Cuala in the provincial decider two years later to become the only Wexford side to win the Leinster senior club title this century.
St Martin's, by contrast, are fairly free of such baggage. The club, which contains the O'Connor brothers, Jack and Rory, have won four of their six Wexford SHC titles since 2017, securing the back-to-back for the first time in late October.
They hadn't made much of a dent in Leinster until last year when it took a late burst of points for Na Fianna to see them off in the Leinster semi-final in Parnell Park. That the Dublin champions subsequently went on to win the All-Ireland underlined that Martin's weren't far away.
They've taken an extra step this winter. Back on - near enough - home turf in Chadwick's Wexford Park, they edged out the defending champions in a nerve-jangling finale. Three minutes into injury-time, substitute Ben Maddock might have thought he'd nabbed the winning score only to learn that referee James McGrath had already signalled for a free. In any event, Rory O'Connor steadied himself and drilled it over.
The semi-final victory over the Kildare champions was comparatively routine, the O'Connor brothers accounting for 0-17 out of the 0-21 total.
"The club have never been in a Leinster final before. The club have never played in Croke Park before," a jubilant Rory O'Connor told RTÉ Radio 1 afterwards. "This team won the first back-to-back for the club there back a few weeks ago we're certainly creating a little bit of history for the club and long may it continue."
History would naturally ordain them as underdogs this weekend but the odds-makers aren't quite so convinced.
Ballyhale Shamrocks, with Henry Shefflin back at the helm, have made somewhat halting progress through the Leinster championship, which has been marred by controversy.
Their four-point win over Kilcormac-Killoughey was blighted by unsavoury scenes at the end, when Adrian Mullen was struck on the hand on the final whistle, an incident which triggered a melee involving both teams, during which a supporter in a Kilcormac jersey ran onto the pitch and was later arrested.
Mullen suffered a broken thumb and was ruled out for the rest of the Leinster campaign, with Shefflin branding the incident "a dirty belt".
They laboured past Clough-Ballacolla in the semi-final, with Shefflin admitting he was unimpressed with the performance.
Still, if they are toppled this Saturday, it'll be a first for their manager. Shefflin, having guided the Shamrocks to back-to-back All-Ireland titles in 2019 and 2020, has yet to lose a championship game as manager of his home club.
Watch the Leinster club finals, Athy v Ballyboden St Endas in football and Ballyhale Shamrocks v St Martin's in hurling, on Saturday from 4.15pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Follow a live blog on the RTÉ News App and on rte.ie/sport
