Dónal Burke in action for Na Fianna during last season's All-Ireland senior club hurling final against Sarsfields (Cork). Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
The usual bank holiday rush sees the busiest weekend of county final action of the year, as from next week the provincial championships begin.
The number swells with a few replays carried over, mostly football to be played on Saturday with the second meeting of Lough Lene Gaels and Castletown Geoghegan in Westmeath down for Monday.
In action on Saturday are All-Ireland champions Na Fianna, who take on Lucan Sarsfields in pursuit of three-in-a-row Dublin titles. Now under the baton of Aidan Downes, the champions survived a rigorous test in the quarter-final when Cuala took them to extra time but they finished powerfully in the semi-final.
A rerun of last year’s final that they were fortunate to win, on this occasion Na Fianna drove home at the end of a tight match to w
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