Leinster Junior Club Hurling Championship semi-finals of the All-Ireland Junior Club Hurling Championship. The current Leinster Junior Club Hurling champions are Mooncoin of Kilkenny who beat Ratoath of Meath in the final. A separate Leinster Special Junior Club Championship which included the Junior Champions of Meath, Kildare, Carlow and Offaly as well as the senior champions of Louth and Longford was discontinued after the 2015 competition. The 2015 champions were Ballypickas of Laois who beat Broadford of Kildare in the final. County champions from various grades throughout the province participated in the 2017 championship: Intermediate champions: Laois, Offaly, Wicklow, Westmeath, Kildare, Meath, Carlow Senior champions:
Cavan from Portadown to Glaslough in 1957, it was found to be uneconomical to keep running the rump section from Monaghan to Cavan. All these lines (including the Cavan and Leitrim Railway) were closed by 1960. The (GNR) Virginia Road Station, from 1863 to 1958 serviced the Drogheda and Navan extension route to Kells and Oldcastle. Cooperation between the Cavan and Westmeath county councils is striving to integrate this into the national and regional development plan. Cavan railway station opened on 8 July 1856, closed for passenger services on 14 October 1957, and finally closed altogether on 1 January 1960. Cavan's