Two former Tipperary forwards are concerned Liam Sheedy’s team could suffer against Limerick in the Munster Final as a result of beating them last Sunday week.

The end came with a telephone conversation on Friday evening.

Last Sunday’s Munster club SHC final ebbed and flowed throughout the first half with marvellous commitment, skill and scores.

If there’s one Irish sports autobiography this year that every sports coach in the country should read, then it is Lar Corbett’s All In My Head.

Thurles Sarsfields were crowned AIB Munster Club SHC winners for the first time this afternoon after beating De La Salle in a keenly-fought final in Cork.

John Keane has embraced new faces but will meet some old ones in the Munster Club SHC final on Sunday.

WHAT a difference two weeks makes. A couple of Sundays ago, in the semi-final, the Tipperary champions put their bodies on the line, gave everything possible to get the win over Kilmallock, in Kilmallock.

TIPPERARY GAA chiefs look set to investigate ugly scenes that developed after this Premier County SHC semi-final at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Newtownshandrum (Cork) 0-19 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-15

THE Tipperary senior hurling championship final ended on a sour note in Semple Stadiumyesterday when Drom & Inch and Tipperary midfielder James Woodlock was stretchered off the field deep into injury time with a suspected fractured ankle.

IT’S A long way from Balbriggan to Thurles, longer still if, like Michael Gleeson, you lived in one but pined for the other.

THE FAIRYTALE ended for Upperchurch Drombane in Semple Stadium yesterday, a season in which new ground was broken in the Tipperary SHC at both divisional and county level, and a tame ending it was.

PEOPLE can talk all they like about Ring, Mackey, Doyle, about Tull Considine and Philly Grimes, all the great ghosts of hurling past, but be in no doubt about this; yesterday in Semple Stadium we witnessed one of the greatest ever individual displays in the long history of the Munster championship.

Kilkenny 3-20 Tipperary 2-11

THERE were two very different reactions in Limerick yesterday to this exciting opening round of the Allianz NHL.

Limerick 2-15 Tipperary 2-15

WEXFORD veteran Adrian Fenlon looks set to retire from inter-county hurling. Manager Seamus Murphy confirmed yesterday that while the midfielder had not made contact, he believes that the Enniscorthy Rapparees man has called time on his Model career.

THE good news for Tipperary fans in the run-up to Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling quarter-final meeting with Galway is the return to training of stalwarts such as Eddie Enright and Seamus Butler, and the increasing fitness of the Ger ‘Redser’ O’Grady and John Carroll.

Diarmuid O’Flynn

KEN Hogan wasn’t one bit surprised by the strength of Limerick’s challenge in Thurles yesterday. It proved that the potential from winning three All-Ireland U21 titles is there, he said.

Thurles Sarsfields 3-17 Éire Óg, Nenagh 2-18

TIPPERARY have made three changes from the side that defeated Clare last weekend for next Monday’s Allianz National Hurling League final with All-Ireland champions Kilkenny at Croke Park.