Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kildare and Leighlin (; ) is a Roman Catholic diocese in eastern Ireland. It is one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin and is subject to the Archdiocese of Dublin. On 7 May 2013, the Most Reverend Denis Nulty was appointed bishop-elect of the diocese. The united diocese includes virtually all of County Carlow, most of County Kildare and parts of counties Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, Wexford and Wicklow. The largest towns in the diocese are Athy, Carlow, Edenderry, Kildare, Naas, Newbridge, Portarlington and Portlaoise.
2016 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship - Offaly Fergal Horgan - Tipperary John Keenan - Wicklow Alan Kelly - Galway Barry Kelly - Westmeath Diarmuid Kirwan - Cork Colm Lyons - Cork James McGrath - Westmeath Paud O'Dwyer - Carlow James Owens - Wexford Johnny Ryan - Tipperary Highest attendances: Total attendance: 486,553Average attendance: "24,328" "The Sunday Game" team of the year was picked on 4 September, which was the night of the final. The panel consisting of Brendan Cummins, Henry Shefflin, Michael Duignan, Ger Loughnane, Liam Sheedy, Eddie Brennan and Cyril Farrell selected Tipperary's Séamus Callanan as the Sunday game player of the year. Other