As the end of the year draws closer, so too does the completion of the GAA’s provincial club championships.
This weekend will see the last remaining provincial finals played off, with football titles on the line in both Munster and Ulster.
Kerry champions Dingle will meet Castlehaven of Cork at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday afternoon.
Beginning their provincial campaign at the semi-final stage, Dingle put an end to Clonmel Commericals’ season with a 0-13 to 0-10 victory at Semple Stadium last month, keeping their hopes of claiming their first Munster Senior title alive.
Castlehaven, meanwhile, had the slightly longer route, besting Limerick’s Newcastle West in the quarter-finals, before getting a big win over Rathgormack from Waterford at Fraher Field in the semi-final, ending 1-16 to 1-7.
The Geaneys will be on Castlehaven’s watchlist, but the Cork club are not without their own formidable families, with the Cahalanes and Hurleys.
Throw-in is at 2pm, with live coverage on TG4 from 1.30pm.
The Munster champions will go on to meet Connacht titleholders St Brigid’s of Roscommon in the All-Ireland Senior Club Football semi-final in the new year.
Up north, All-Ireland runners-up Glen from Derry travel to the Athletic Grounds on Sunday hoping to retain their Ulster title.
After the drama and ultimate agony of losing last season’s All-Ireland final, the Derry men look as if they’re out to set the record straight.
As luck would have it, the Ulster champions will go on to face their Leinster counterparts in the All-Ireland semi-final, which, if Glen come out on top this weekend, would recreate the match-up of last year’s final, putting them up against Dublin’s Kilmacud Crokes.
But Monaghan’s Scotstown could easily throw a spanner in the works.
The club boasts the county talents of Darren Hughes, Conor McCarthy, Jack McCarron, and Rory Beggan, who have been at the fore of Scotstown’s success this year. But the threat of Glen and Derry talisman Conor Glass will loom large in their minds.
Throw-in is at 4pm, with live coverage on TG4 from 3.45pm.
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