Laois v Kilkenny league clash moved from O'Moore Park to Nowlan Park

This Sunday’s Laois-Kilkenny Allianz Hurling League tie has been switched to UPMC Nowlan Park.

Laois are due to have home advantage for the game but with MW Hire O’Moore Park in poor condition due to the recent bad weather, the Laois county board has decided to close the county ground for a number of weeks once it hosts Saturday night’s crunch Laois-Kildare Division Two football game.

Having beaten Carlow at O’Moore Park last Saturday, the outcome of the game has no impact whatsoever on Laois as they are safe from relegation and too far adrift in the Division 1B table to make the knockout stages of the competition.

Indeed, playing Kilkenny at Nowlan Park should be a useful dress rehearsal for Laois boss Eddie Brennan, who takes his side to the venue for a Leinster Championship clash with his ex-boss Brian Cody on May 16.

Meanwhile, the games that fell victim to the weather earlier this month have been refixed for the weekend after next, when the League quarter-finals were originally due to have been played.

Limerick-Waterford in Division 1A will now take place at the LIT Gaelic Grounds on Saturday week at 7pm while Galway-Tipperary, in the same group, has been set for the following afternoon at Pearse Stadium.

Postponed games in Divisions 2A, 2B and 3B have also been refixed.

ALLIANZ HURLING LEAGUE REFIXTURES

Saturday, March 7

Division 1A

Limerick v Waterford, LIT Gaelic Grounds, 7pm

Sunday, March 8

Division 1A

Galway v Tipperary, Pearse Stadium, 2pm

Division 2A

Offaly v Antrim, Bord Na Mona O’Connor Park, 2pm

Division 2B

Derry v Kildare, Celtic Park, 2pm

Division 3B

Fermanagh v Sligo, Brewster Park, 2pm