A FEW weeks ago we had the US president here, Barack Obama, and he left us with a new catch-cry — Is Féidir Linn.

Tony Considine analyses the Cork lineup ahead of tomorrow’s Munster SHC showdown with Tipperary

I HEARD a lot of complaints in recent weeks from Clare and Limerick about being in Division 2; on the basis of what I saw in Ennis on Saturday, both counties were where they deserved to be this year.

FROM Biddy Early to Biddy Mulligan — this is a story of Dublin but it’s also a story of Anthony Daly.

EVERYONE in hurling, no matter what county you follow, must congratulate Dublin’s hurlers on reaching their first league final since 1946.

FOR the thousands who went to Galway yesterday in hopes of a hurling contest there was one consolation – it was a beautiful day in scenic Salthill.

BEFORE I say anything about the games yesterday, I want to pay tribute to a great Kilkenny hurling man, from a great Kilkenny hurling family –Eamon Hennessey.

APART from the two teams — Wexford and Offaly — in the relegation battle this Sunday in Division 1, which itself is a huge game for both counties, every other team has a chance of making the league final.

THERE’S a day in golf, the third day, that they call ‘moving day’, fellas getting into position for the final push on the last day; this is ‘moving weekend’ in the Allianz Hurling League.