GAA club championships: All the football and hurling action from across the provinces

There’s a good spread of action today with provincial clashes in football in Connacht and Leinster while the small ball is the focus in Munster and Ulster.

You can follow all the action from around the country as it happens in our liveblog below.

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Connacht SFC semi-finals

1.30 Leitrim Gaels 1-3 Maigh Cuilinn 4-9 (40 mins)

1.30: St Brigid’s 1-14 Ballina Stephenites 3-2 (40 mins)

Leinster SFC quarter-finals

1.30: Naomh Mairtin 1-6 Portarlington 0-9 (40 mins)

1.30: The Downs 1-4 Tullamore 1-9 (40 mins)

1.30: Castletown Liam Mellows 0-8 Ballyboden St Enda’s 1-10 (40 mins)

Munster SHC semi-finals

1.15: Ballygunner 4-16 Sarsfields 2-12 (45 mins)

Éire Óg Ennis v Loughmore Castleiney (2.30)

Ulster SHC semi-final

Slaughtneil v Portaferry, 3.30

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Fiachra McDonagh gets Moycullen's second goal, with Harry Plunkett hitting the net for Tullamore, who lead the Downs by six points at half-time.

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Kevin Mahony gets Ballygunner's fourth goal, capitalising on yet another defensive error by Sarsfields.

Ballygunner 4-13 Sarsfields 2-8 (40 mins)

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See all the half-time scores above.

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Sarsfields' momentum is halted as Patrick Fitzgerald capitalises on a defensive error to score his side's third goal, restoring their eight point lead.

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Daniel Hogan gets his second goal for Sarsfields, who have now hit 2-3 without reply.

Ballygunner 2-12 Sarsfields 2-6 (40 mins)

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Watch Daniel Hogan's excellent goal which gives Sarsfields something to cling to, cutting the deficit to eight at half-time having once trailled by 13.

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Dessie Conneely moves Moycullen four clear with a goal. Brigid's lead Ballina by four in the other Connacht clash.

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Castletown have the wind at their backs vs Ballyboden St Enda's, with Darragh Brooks cashing in with two early orange flags.

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The freshly crowned All-Star Sam Mulroy has three early points on the board for Naomh Mairtín, but Rioghan Murphy draws Portarlington level.

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Sars have come to life before the half-time whistle with an unanswered 1-3. Ballygunner needed the half-time whistle but go in with an eight point lead.

Ballygunner 2-11 Sarsfields 1-6 (half-time)

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Barry O'Flynn hits the net for Sarsfields after a mistake by Stephen O'Keeffe but it's pulled back after the referee fails to play advantage. O'Keeffe is yellow carded and McCarthy taps over the free.

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What a brilliant goal.

Daniel Hogan gives Sarsfields a little hope, beating three Ballygunner defenders before flicking to the net. Excellent skill.

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40-year-old Senan Kilbride notches an early goal for St Brigid's with Garvan Jones raising a green flag for Leitrim Gaels. See live scores above.

Jones' goal was a sensational individual effort.

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Dessie brings his tally to 2-1 from play in the first 15 minutes, extending the Gunners' lead further.

Colm McCarthy stops the bleeding for Sarsfields with a badly needed point.

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It's a true nightmare of a start for Sarsfields. A sideline evades a Sarsfields defender with Dessie Hutchinson ghosting in behind to bury his and Ballygunner's second goal.

Ballygunner 2-5 Sarsfields 0-1 (15 mins)

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Frank Roche from Dr Hyde Park:

Some intriguing late team news from King & Moffatt Dr Hyde Park, where St Brigid’s of Kiltoom host Ballina Stephenites in the semi-finals of the AIB Connacht club senior football championship.

Senan Kilbride wasn’t listed in the Brigid’s match programme team but he has now been promoted at the expense of Eoghan Derwin.

Meanwhile, former Mayo defender Padraig O’Hora wasn’t even originally named in the Ballina match-day squad but he will now start, wearing No 22.

Former Roscommon forward Kilbride, now 40, spent much of the previous five years in Abu Dhabi. But upon his return home and a spell playing with the Roscommon masters and then the Brigid’s third team, he was coaxed back into the senior fold.

He came off the bench in the drawn county final against Padraig Pearses before manager Anthony Cunningham threw him in from the start of the replay.

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