KCLR Sport

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.

Last week Carlow's Niall Culleton earned his spot on the PDC tour where he'll mix it with the best including Luke Littler, Luke Humphries, Gerwyn Price and Gian van Veen.

We had a chat with Culleton about what lies ahead and his journey so far.

Carlow enjoyed a 2-15 to 3-9 win over Laois yesterday in the Dioralyte O’Byrne Shield semi final in Rathvilly. Ross Dunphy and Colm Hulton with the goals for Carlow. After the game we caught up with Carlow manager Joe Murphy and forwards Conor Doyle and Colm Hulton as well as Laois boss Justin McNulty. We also hear from Aaron Amond, Ciara Kavanagh and Bronagh Nolan who were winners at the Carlow GAA awards.

Colm Hulton scored 1-3 as Carlow beat Wexford 1-13 to 0-13 in the O'Byrne Shield quarter final at St Patricks GAA club in Tullow. It was a special night for Paddy Doyle from the host club St Pats who came off the bench to score the second last point of the game on what was his debut. Joe Murphy's side will now face Laois in the semi final this Saturday at 2 in Rathvilly and the game will be live on KCLR. We had live coverage of last nights match and afterwards our match commentator Brendan Hennessy spoke to some of those involved including the local hero.