All Star and former Mayo footballer Keith Higgins is now in charge of the counties under 20 side. At this weeks launch we caught up with him to chat about the new rules, coaching players with the new rules in mind and the emergence of Kobe McDonald.

The under 20 championship begins for Carlow on Wednesday March 25th when they host Meath in Carlow, after that they play Longford in Longford before finishing their group with an away clash against neighbours Laois.

Kilkenny's Seanie Maguire scored twice as Cork City beat Wexford 4-1  in the first division.

In the Premier division Thomastown's Colm Whelan started as Bohemians beat  Derry 1-0 at the Ryan McBride Brandywell.

Elsewhere Jimmy Keohane captained Galway to a 1-all draw away to Shels, Shamrock Rovers beat St Pats 2-0 and Dundalk drew 1 all with Drogheda.

Padraig Amond skippered Waterford as drew nil-all with Sligo Rovers, after the game Amond spoke to us as did Johnny Dunleavy.

Carlow made it 4 wins from 4 in the Allianz Football League over the weekend beating Waterford 1-26 to 15 points at Netwatch Cullen Park.

It was also a great weekend for the Carlow Ladies who won a historic 5th match in a row beating Derry 2-12 to 1-7.

Following Saturday's win Brendan Henessy got the reaction of Christopher Blake, Conor Crowley and Manager Joe Murphy.

It was a good Valentines weekend for the men's and ladies' footballers of Carlow with both teams maintaining their 100 percent records in the league.

The men beat Tipperary 1-=17 to 1-14 in Semple Stadium while the ladies over4came Offaly 2-8 to 12 points in Kilcormac. The camogie team were unluck top miss out against Derry, losing by a point, that game will be covered by Camán Caint.

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By the rime you listen to this the Electric Ireland Sigerson Cup for 2026 will be over but before the game Dublin legend James McCarthy and former AFL and Laois star Colm Begley joined us for an evergreen and forever relevant conversation on the benefits of college football, handling retirement and facing Carlow.

Chris Blake kicked 8 points as Carlow beat Wicklow 1-15 to 2-9 in last night's Allianz League Division 4 encounter at Netwatch Cullen Park.

It's a second win in a row for Carlow. After the game we got the reaction from the Carlow camp and from Wicklow boss Oisin McConville who spoke about the standard of officiating in division 4 !

Last week we spotted a story in the Carlow Nationalist about Edel Hayen, who is now in her 25th season with thew Carlow Ladies Footballers. We invited Hayden on the KCLR Sport show to have a chat about her long service to the county and what keeps her going.

On Sunday before Kilkenny played Offaly in the hurling league, we met Kilkenny minor football manager Eoin Hennessy for chat about the work he is doing with his young squad.

Carlow opened their Allianz League division 4 campaign with a 2-16 to 1-15 win over Antrim at the Rogers Casements club in Antrim. 

We had the game live on KCLR and afterwards Brendan Henessy got lots of reaction from players, management and analysts.

Carlow collected silverware last night beating Wicklow in the O'Byrne Shield Final. 2-13 to 1-7 the final score. The game was live on KCLR and our match commentator Brendan Hennessy got all the reaction.