Jack Cassidy with his third of the half but Eoghan Campbell replies.

Cormac O'Doherty with a free - Slaughtneil's first from a placed ball.

Brendan Rogers with a superb solo score as he gathers, breaks the tackle and cracks over from deep on the right.

Make that four on the spin - Neil McManus again leading the charge as the Antrim champions have now settled.

Ed McQuillan with another as Cushendall hit three-in-a-row.

Two from Neil McManus trims the gap back a little.

Slaughtneil are flying here as Jack Cassidy lands a double and Shéa Cassidy with another.

Great start from the Derry side as Ruairi Ó Mianáin and Brendan Rogers register in between Neil McManus grabbing Cuhendall's first point.

Slaughtneil first on the board through Shea Cassidy and Se McGuigan quickly adds a second.

Referee Peter Owens thows the ball in and the Ulster Club hurling semi-final is underway. Bit of a breeze blowing across the field but nothing to get overly excited about.

In the gaelic football world, the four-month search for a Derry senior manager came to end this week with Paddy Tally getting the job.

He said that the offer was "too good an opportunity not to take" when he caught up with BBC Sport NI's Odhran Crumley on Friday.

An imperious display from Scotstown saw them trounce Erne Gaels 0-19 to 0-6 to set-up an Ulster Club SFC semi-final meeting with Kilcoo next Saturday evening.

Jack McCarron (eight points) and Conor McCarthy (six) led the way for the Monaghan champions at Brewster Park as they made up 0-14 of Scotstown’s tally.

The Monaghan champions were dominant in the first half as they pressed the Erne Gaels kick-outs with intensity, overturned them time and again and put the result virtually beyond doubt by the half-time whistle.

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'If it's not broke, don't fix it' is the thinking of Cushendall manager Brian Delargy ahead of this evening's Ulster Club Senior Hurling Championship semi-final against Slaughtneil as he has named an unchanged 15 that started against Dunloy in the Antrim decider.

That means Sean McAfee remains on the edge of the square and is flanked by Ed McQuillan, who was man-of-the-match in last year's Ulster final against Slaughneil, and teenage star Joseph McLaughlin's who has blossomed further after bursting onto the scene last year.

The spine of the Cushendall team is strong with Paddy Burke, Eoghan Campbell, Ryan McCambridge, Fred McCurry and Neil McManus bringing plenty of craft and leadership.

Slaughhtneil have a different look about them this year on both sides of the white line as Paul McCormack is now at the helm having taken over from Micky McShane who enjoyed a fruitful nine years with the Derry side.

McCormack has been without Chrissy and Karl McKeague, but drafted in new talent in the form of Finn McEldowney, Conor Coyle and Conor McAllister who were not involved last year when the teams met in the Ulster final, but start in the defence this evening.

Cushendall: C McAlister; L Gillan, P Burke, M Burke; Scott Walsh, E Campbell, R McCollam; F McCurry, R McCambridge; R McAteer, N McManus, F McCambridge; E McQuillan, S McAfee, J McLaughlin.

Slaughtneil: O O'Doherty; F McEldowney, P McNeill, C McAllister; R Ó Mianáin, C Coyle, Shane McGuigan; J Cassidy, M McGrath; M McGuigan, Sé McGuigan, C O'Doherty; E Cassidy, B Rogers, Shéa Cassidy

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When it comes to hurling in Ulster, it doesn't get much better than a clash between Antrim's Cushendall and Derry's Slaughtneil.

In a repeat of last year's final, 12-time champions Cushendall will be hoping for more of the same after their four-point win in Newry last December.

For Slaughtneil, it's all about getting to that final to right the wrongs of 2023 and the previous year's final, when Antrim opposition in the shape of Dunloy emerged Ulster champions over the Derry side.

We'll have live text commentary for you from Armagh this evening so welcome along