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. But their inability to convert those titles to success on the ultimate day will stick in the craw.
Since they lifted the Tommy Moore Cup 12 years ago they lost four of their six All-Ireland semi-finals. All-Ireland finals are rare occasions for the club so the question has to be, can they deliver on the big day?
O'Loughlin Gaels have made a habit of coming through some really tight games this year, dethroning Ballyhale by a point in the county final, beating Na Fianna by the same margin in the Leinster final, and repeating the trick against Cushendall last time out.
It goes without saying that they'd take it again this weekend on Jones' Road.
O'Loughlin Gaels - route to the final
Kilkenny QF: 0-18 to 2-10 v Mullinavat
Kilkenny SF: 3-16 to 0-22 v Bennettsbridge
Kilkenny final: 0-20 to 0-19 v Ballyhale Shamrocks
Leinster QF: 2-16 to 0-13 v Mount Leinster Rangers (Carlow)
Leinster SF: 0-17 to 0-12 v Kilcormac–Killoughey (Offaly)
Leinster Final: 0-22 to 1-18 v Na Fianna (Dublin)
All-Ireland SF: 1-17 to 1-16 v Ruairí Óg, Cushendall (Antrim)
St Thomas' - route to the final
Galway QF: 2-19 to 0-12 v Cappataggle
Galway SF: 1-20 to 1-17 v Sarsfields
Galway final: 2-12 to 1-13 v Turloughmore
All-Ireland SF: 2-20 (p) v 1-23 v Ballygunner (Waterford)
Expert view
"They've all beaten who we all thought were going to be in the final," Shane McGrath said on RTÉ's Game On this week.
"Anyone saying it wasn't going to be Ballygunner and Ballyhale would have been very hard to foresee.
"It's very hard to separate them. I'm looking from a defensive point of view at O'Loughlin Gaels. They currently have half the Kilkenny inter-county backs in Huw Lawlor, Mikey Butler and Paddy Deegan.
"When you're trying to set up as forwards, and you're looking at the three of those, you might say that you're not going to get much change off the three of them but what can we get off the other defenders.
"People need to realise that the majority of players on both sides have played inter-county, be it at minor, Under-20 or senior level. There's a wealth of talent in both sides.
"The weather is supposed to be warm, wet and windy so that'll be a leveller.
"There's going to be a good few match-ups around the field. Mikey Butler might take James Regan, Huw Lawlor might pick up Éanna Burke, Mark Bergin might end up marking Shane Cooney at some stage.
"The match up that could determine quite a lot of it is Paddy Deegan and Conor Cooney, who is averaging 11 points per game for the club.
"If he pushes back the field to get on ball - we saw he did it against Ballygunner - and you invite Paddy Deegan up the field, he could pop off points like he did against Na Fianna in the Leinster final.
"If Thomas' can bring the intensity they brought against Ballygunner - obviously they have the hurlers - I think they'll just edge it."
