This year's league champions will meet an in-form Ballinamere side.
There's little to choose between Birr and Ballinamere in this weekend's Offaly Senior Hurling Championship quarter final.
That's according to Midlands 103 Commentator Joe Troy.
Birr head in to Saturday's contest as league champions while Ballinamere have lost just one championship game so far.
The two sides will meet in Tullamore at 7.30, Joe Troy says the certain factors that make this game particularly important:
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