St Patrick’s Day hosts the AIB club football and hurling finals in Croke Park and there’s a farming link this week.

In the football side of things, Dr Crokes of Kerry take on Derry super unit Slaughtneil, but it’s in the hurling where the real farming links are.

Ballyea man and dairy farmer James Murphy will be lining out against Dublin club Cuala in the hurling at 3pm.

Interestingly, as well as taking over the running of John Kelly Meats in Co Clare, Kepak has also taken over the sponsorship of Ballyea. Kelly had been sponsoring the club but, since Kepak’s acqusition of the company, the name is now on the front of the jersey.

Kepak was one of the first companies to sponsor a GAA team when it was on the Meath jersey in the early to mid 1990s.