It's not just Kilmoyley and Lixnaw (Austin Stack Park, 3.30), you see. It's Anthony Daly on the line against Eamonn Cregan. And it's Paul Galvin playing his first love (that is, hurling). Actually Galvin, Eamonn Fitzmaurice and four other Lixnaw players are just 120 minutes from a dream double, with Feale Rangers through to the football final. In fact some of them are on for a treble, with the club's footballers in the intermediate semi-final as well.

Their hurling involvement is expected to end today, though, leaving Daly with the possible dilemma that Cregan famously found himself in 1994 of plotting the downfall of his own kin; should Clarecastle beat Tulla in the Clare semi-final today and win the final, they'll meet the Kerry champions in the Munster championship in four weeks' time.

The TG4 cameras are in Sligo for their county football final between Eastern Harps and Tourlestrane (Markievicz Park, 3.30). You probably associate the latter . . . in fact Sligo football itself . . . with Eamonn O'Hara but they're hardly a one-man team; he was injured for their semi-final win over St John's and is doubtful to start today.

TG4 will also be showing deferred coverage of the Down final between Mayobridge and Longstone (Newry 4.00).

Mayobridge are understandably favourites, this being their ninth final in 10 years and with Benny Coulter continuing to bang in goals for fun; he scored a hat-trick in the semi-final win over Bryansfort.

But Longstone boast a fit-again Ambrose Rogers and they're the reigning All Ireland sevens champions.

The club they beat in that final in Kilmacud last month, St Gall's, are out in the Antrim county final against Portglenone (Casement Park, 2.00), a repeat of the 2005 decider which Gall's shaded on their way to claiming the Ulster club title. We notice it's below the Dunloy-Loughgiel decider (4.00) on the billing which is one good bit of news for Antrim hurling men in what's been a bleak week for the county and sport.

Also up north you have the Cavan county football final between Gowna and Cavan Gaels (Kingspan Breffni Park, 4.00). Gowna haven't won a county title five years, in which time the Gaels have landed three, but Dermot McCabe and Ger Pierson have the desire and form to deny the Gaels here.

The busiest province of the lot today is Leinster. Kieran McGeeney will be an interested observer of the all-Newbridge Kildare county final between Moorefield and Sarsfields (Newbridge, 3.30). Moorefield aren't just the reigning champions, of course, but Leinster champions. However, Dermot Earley has been in brilliant form for Sars since his return fmanagerrom his latest injury.

In Offaly, Tullamore and Shamrocks face off in the county football final (Tullamore, 3.30). There'll be some romance either way; though Tullamore lead the county roll of honour, they were in a relegation play-off this time last year, while Shamrocks from Rahan are the Waterford of Offaly football, having contested seven county semi-finals in the last 10 years yet remain one of only two parishes in the county never to have won a senior title. PJ Ward might end that famine, but then the way Shane Dooley . . . county hurling panelist and son of Joe . . . is scoring, it might well continue too.

There are also hurling county finals in Wicklow (Kiltegan v Glenealy, Aughrim, 4.00) and Derry (Kevin Lynch's v Banagher, Celtic Park, 4.00) while new Carlow hurling manager Jim Greene will surely be forsaking his homeclub Mount Sion's mouthwatering Waterford quarter-final against Ballygunner (Walsh Park, 2.30) to scout the Carlow decider between Mount Leinster Rangers and St Mullin's (Dr Cullen Park, 1.45).