As expected injury has ruled former hurler of the year Joe Canning out of Galway’s do-or-die NHL clash with Tipperary tomorrow as Shane O’Neill places his faith in 14 of the starters that claimed victory over Cork last time out.

The personal fitness boom last year sent pre-tax profits at the Flyefit gym group speeding ahead by 35% to €4.6m.

Nemo Rangers manager Paul O’Donovan was full of praise for his defenders’ performance in yesterday’s Munster club final win over Clonmel Commercials.

With one old score comprehensively settled, redemption will again be foremost on Nemo minds when they step into the ring with Corofin early in the New Year.

No dramatic denouement in Dungarvan on Sunday. A brisk assertion of the verities instead.

Nemo Rangers will take on reigning champions Corofin in the All-Ireland club football semi-final after comfortably seeing off Clonmel in today’s Munster decider.

Stephen Barry picks out three potentially key match-ups as Nemo Rangers bid to gain revenge in Sunday's Munster Club SFC final against Clonmel Commercials.

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“We haven’t even spoken about it, to be honest with you,” says Nemo Rangers manager Paul O’Donovan of their agonising 2015 Munster final defeat at the hands of this weekend’s opponents.

“We haven’t even spoken about it, to be honest with you,” says Nemo Rangers manager Paul O’Donovan of their agonising 2015 Munster final defeat at the hands of this weekend’s opponents.

It was a dour struggle in many respects as befitting the time of the year, but cometh the hour some brilliance burned brightly in the low-lying West Clare sun as the Kennedys swooped to conquer for a mightily relieved Clonmel Commercials side.

Clonmel Commercials’ bid for a second Munster title is very much on track after a late, late show advanced them to another provincial day out against Nemo Rangers for a repeat of the 2015 decider that the Premier County kingpins won with virtually the last kick of the ball.

Patrick Horgan has been shortlisted for 2019 PwC Hurler of the Year award, along with Tipperary and Kilkenny captains Séamus Callanan and TJ Reid.

Almost all of Tipperary’s 2018 hard luck stories disappeared into the ether last Sunday.

From watching Arsenal in Clonmel on Saturday morning through the third lap of homecoming celebrations on Wednesday night in Liam Sheedy’s Portroe, Seamus Kennedy’s All-Ireland diary takes us inside an exhilarating and emotional week in Tipperary.

James Barry revealed that he knew he would not be included in Tipperary’s All-Ireland final team over a week before the game, but instead of wallowing in disappointment, he passed on a few nuggets of full-back advice to help Barry Heffernan and Ronan Maher.

As rain and hail drenched the first half, it wasn’t an afternoon for ‘playing through the lines’

Tipperary’s 28th All-Ireland title came easier than expected as Richie Hogan’s first-half sending off helped to pave the way for their third Championship crown this decade.

In the Father Ted episode where a bomb was planted on Dougal’s milk float, two fellow priests and a tense Ted were involved in a major planning session.

As anticipated, Kilkenny have drafted in Cillian Buckley for Richie Leahy for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC final.

On October 7, 2010, a month after winning the All Ireland and stopping Kilkenny’s five-in-a-row, Liam Sheedy's Tipperary management team announced they were stepping down.

Being a Clonmel man and a dual player, the natural assumption to make about Seamus Kennedy was that football would be his priority.

Resilience is a word that is often used in relation to Kilkenny under Brian Cody.

We are a week into Munster Championship Lent. The 40 days and 40 nights before the start of the Munster SHC on May 12 commenced last Tuesday.

Sean Carey was the toast of Moyle Rovers as his injury-time goal knocked arch-rivals and holders Clonmel Commercials out of the county senior football championship in a thrilling semi-final at Cahir — Rovers won 2-7 to 0-11.

The Waterford footballers’ joy at outlasting their hurling counterparts in the Championship has been tempered somewhat by an unkind Round 2 qualifier draw.

I’m led to believe Stephen Cluxton had blood in his mouth following that first-half clash with James McGivney, so the conspiracy theorists won’t be happy.

Waterford 2-22 Tipperary 2-22: The width of a post has often been the difference between victory and defeat. Not here.

I got talking to Joe McKenna in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday shortly after the final whistle. Joe was naturally on a high, as was the whole Limerick crowd, a good share of whom were down on the pitch basking in the warm afterglow of such an impressive win, writes Anthony Daly.

The legend of Tipperary’s historic All-Ireland minor football success has multiplied with time.

Michael Ryan may have produced the tactical masterstroke of the season when he shifted Ronan Maher into Tipperary’s midfield.

Dr Crokes managed to grind out a comeback win after being reduced to 14-men for most of the second-half of their Munster Club SFC quarter-final in Clonmel.

Eoghan Cormican picks three players to watch in tomorrow's All-Ireland U21 Hurling semi-finals, featuring Kilkenny v Derry and Limerick v Galway.

Galway have shown to date that when they are tuned and ready, they are capable of wrecking teams, writes Anthony Daly.

Tipp’s experience was vital in Páirc Uí Chaoimh today as they showed all their nous to edge out Clare in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final, hitting five points in the closing stages for a three-point win, writes Michael Moynihan.

Tipperary will be without Kieran Bergin for their Munster and All-Ireland SHC defence.

At around half six on Sunday evening, most of the Galway team were to be found licking ice creams outside Supermacs on the Old Ennis Road.

Conor Lehane knows from experience that Saracens will be facing a freak of nature if he plays in the Champions Cup semi-final in Dublin on Saturday.

Tipp rely on Seamus Callanan and John McGrath to create goal chances out of nothing, writes Donal O’Grady.

Tipperary 0-28 Clare 0-21: “I’m not joking, we’re doing nothing different,” insisted Michael Ryan after this latest piece of evidence that the crown weighs lighter on Tipperary’s heads than previous times.

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