SATURDAY 5 MARCH
Division 1 Group A
Wexford v Offaly, Chadwick's Wexford Park, 2pm
Cork v Galway, Páirc Uí Chaoimh, 7pm
Division 1 Group B
Dublin v Kilkenny, Parnell Park, 5pm
Division 3A
Warwickshire v Louth, Páirc na hÉireann, 1pm
SUNDAY 6 MARCH
Division 1 Group A
Clare v Limerick, Cusack Park, 1.45pm
Division 1 Group B
Waterford v Tipperary, Walsh Park, 1.45pm
Laois v Antrim, MW Hire O'Moore Park, 3.45pm
Division 2A
Kerry v Meath, Austin Stack Park, 1pm
Westmeath v Down, TEG Cusack Park, 2pm
Kildare v Carlow, St Conleth's Park, 2pm
Division 2B
Mayo v Sligo, Ballina Stephanites, 2pm
Donegal v Derry, O'Donnell Park, 2pm
London v Wicklow, McGovern Park, 1pm
Division 3A
Armagh v Roscommon, Athletic Grounds, 2pm
Monaghan v Tyrone, Inniskeen, 2pm
Division 3B
Fermanagh v Lancashire, Darver, 12.30pm
Longford v Leitrim, Glennon Brothers Pearse Park, 2pm
ONLINE
Live blogs each day on RTÉ Sport Online and the RTÉ News app.
RADIO
Live updates and commentaries on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday and Sunday Sport.
TV
Live coverage of Dublin v Kilkenny and Cork v Galway on RTÉ Two as part of Saturday's hurling double header, coverage commencing at 4.30pm.
Highlights of all the weekend's action on Allianz League Sunday on RTÉ Two and RTÉ Player from 9.30pm.
WEATHER
Saturday, will be a dry and sunny day. After a cold and frosty start, afternoon temperatures will range between 7 and 9 degrees as light to moderate northeast winds fall light and variable.
A cloudier day on Sunday. It will stay mainly dry with light, isolated showers in the east. Afternoon temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees in moderate east or southeast winds.
Division 1 Group A
Two teams who've recently humbled the All-Ireland champions collide in the primetime clash in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday evening.
Cork are famously "not a league team" - no title since 1998 - but in the wake of last August's All-Ireland final demolition, Kieran Kingston's side appear to have targeted it seriously this year. Along with Wexford, they are probably the form team of spring, albeit the former's scalps have been more eye-catching.
They rolled past Clare on the opening night, racking up 2-30, before trampling over Offaly in Birr. Then came the nine-point win over Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds, a result which probably has to be understood in light of the hosts' experimental starting line-up, which allowed Cork build up a 14-point advantage by half-time.
They face possibly their stiffest challenge yet against a much-changed Galway.
The westerners, after a blowout during the Walsh Cup, caught the eye with an imposing and impressive demolition of Limerick in the TUS Gaelic Grounds, further entrenching the notion that they are the team with the physical attributes to take down Limerick.
That win, perhaps, has been placed in a less flattering context by Limerick's apparently indifferent attitude to the league and the jarring six-point home loss to Wexford last weekend.
"Before last weekend, we maybe had Galway on a higher ranking than we do this week," Donal Óg Cusack told the RTÉ GAA podcast this week. "They'll be disappointed with last Sunday. I thought they were unremarkable in many respects."
Shefflin has reacted to the lethargic effort against Wexford by making a host of changes, with Jack Hastings and Gavin Lee getting starts, while, most significantly of all, Conor Whelan returns from injury.
John Kiely's experiment of trying out the youngsters against Cork was effectively aborted halfway through, with the A-lister trio of Diarmaid Byrnes, Will O'Donoghue and Aaron Gillane being sent for at half-time.
During the week, Niall Moran flagged it as concerning evidence that Limerick's strength in depth may not be comparable to dominant teams, in both codes, in the recent past.
With the losses building up, Kiely may be inclined to roll out a full-strength team in Ennis just to stem the tide. It was in Round 4 of the league last year when Limerick found their groove, battering an admittedly under-strength Cork at home. The calendar is different this time around but will they time it similarly this year.
The hosts' league campaign has been badly hobbled by injury, suffering losses against Cork and Wexford. Rather alarmingly, they were only level with Offaly before putting them down decisively in the second half. The game marked the return of Tony Kelly, who whipped over 2-12 as Clare pulled away in the closing stages.
In the other 1A game, Offaly's latest grim assignment is away to the in-form Wexford. Michael Fennelly lamented after their loss to Cork in week two that his team had been "thrown in at the deep end." As ever, a respectable showing is the target.
Division 1 Group B
The first televised game of the weekend is in Parnell Park, with Kilkenny, after a reasonably humdrum first three weekends, taking on an exuberant Dublin.
Mattie Kenny's side registered an exceptionally rare win in Thurles last Saturday, though they did their best to torpedo it in the finish. After a wide-ridden first half, in which the swirling wind was a constant irritant, the Dublin forwards found their rhythm, Rian McBride, Fergal Whiteley and Aidan Mellett all impressing.
Kilkenny, seemingly neutered by the absence of their Ballyhale crew, have made heavy weather of Antrim, lost narrowly to Tipperary - "one of the worst games of hurling I've seen in a long time", according to Shane Dowling - before dispatching Laois last time out. Whether the sizable Ballyhale contingent will be deployed this weekend could be decisive.
Early on Sunday afternoon, Liam Cahill faces his spurned native county in Walsh Park. Waterford are off the back of hefty victories over Laois and Antrim, though the latter made them work considerably harder than the former.
The word 'transition' is writ large in Tipp as Colm Bonnar gets to grip with his charges. With old stagers drifting away, forced or otherwise, they are in a somewhat formative phase of their development, with the likes of Jake Morris and Paddy Cadell becoming central figures. On last week's evidence, Seamus Callanan appears a touch groggy and leggy and was hooked before the end.
Tipp lost twice to Waterford in 2021, in the final round of the League and then in the All-Ireland quarter-final, and the hosts certainly appear to be in ruder health at present.
In the other 1B game, Cheddar Plunkett's Laois host Antrim in O'Moore Park. The visitors' form looks the more compelling, with respectably low losses against Dublin and Kilkenny.
Laois shipped an unsightly mauling in Walsh Park but the evidence of their opening game against Tipperary, admittedly played in desperately inclement conditions, suggests they're more doughty opponents at home. Worth recalling that their form was also dismal last year before they shocked Antrim in the qualifiers.
Division 2A
They're tightly clustered in the second tier, with just the two points separating first and bottom.
As it stands, there's a three-way tie at the 'top' (it is only a six team league) of Division 2A as we enter into week 4. The Joe McDonagh champs host Down in TEG Cusack Park, the visitors' gallop having been halted by a loss at home to Kildare last weekend.
Joe Fortune's side recovered from their loss in Carlow on the second weekend with an emphatic destruction of Meath last time out.
Kerry, with two wins from three, are at home to Meath in Tralee, while Kildare, fresh from their encouraging win up north, host Carlow.
Division 2B
The top two meet in Letterkenny, Donegal and Derry both sitting pretty on six points apiece after three games.
Following their 10-point win at home to Mayo, London suffered a reversal against Sligo but they'll fancy their chances at home to Wicklow.
In the remaining game, Mayo and Sligo collide in Ballina, the hosts without a win, a solitary draw against Wicklow their only point.
Division 3A
Damian Casey racked up 0-13 as Tyrone dispatched Armagh to rise to the top of Division 3A. They descend on Patrick Kavanagh country to face Monaghan.
Jointly top on five points, Roscommon head for Armagh, while the two pointless sides, Warwickshire and Louth face off in Páirc na hÉireann.
Division 3B
Leitrim and Fermanagh sit jointly top of the table with two wins from two, the latter hosting Lancashire, while the latter head south-east to face Longford.
The midlanders registered an important victory over Lancashire last time out. Cavan remain rooted to the bottom.
