Time heals, time relieves and time changes.

UCC and Waterford carry the Munster flag on the national stage this weekend in their refixed Irish Hockey Trophy quarter-final with plenty of scores to be settled.

The games take place on Wednesday at 7pm.

Dublin boss Mick Bohan has made three changes in personnel as the TG4 All-Ireland Senior Champions prepare to welcome Lidl National League Division 1 holders Cork to Croke Park.

John Fogarty and Eoghan Cormican preview the weekend's GAA fixtures.

Mark Landers bemoaned the old Cork failings that cost the Rebels in Sunday’s league defeat by Waterford.

Stephen Bennett wants Waterford to make Walsh Park a fortress this year.

A remarkable performance and late equaliser from Tipperary’s Aishling Moloney earned Shane Ronayne’s side a point as TG4 All-Ireland champions Dublin were unable to get their Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 campaign off to a winning start in Ballyboden.

Waterford chairman Seán Michael O’Regan believes the increasing number of players stepping away from senior inter-county teams in their 20s is a sign of the times.

Waterford taliswoman for the past two decades Michelle Ryan has called time on her inter-county career.

Mahony, who turns 29 next week, made the surprise decision after a year in which a broken shinbone ended his Championship prematurely, before recovering to co-captain Ballygunner to a sixth Waterford SHC in a row.

Waterford county board hopes to take the next steps in the redevelopment of Walsh Park later this month according to secretary Pat Flynn.

“He was the difference between the teams today,” declared an ecstatic St Mary’s coach, Dan Shanahan. “His puckouts were good and he hasn’t conceded a goal in four games.”

There was a time for Ballygunner when playing Clare opposition in Munster competition was always one match too far, but those days of serial defeat to the best of the Banner have been well and truly ended these past three years.

Last season’s beaten finalists Christian Brothers College got their Harty Cup campaign off to a positive start with an impressive 3-17 to 1-13 win over St Francis College, Rochestown.

Waterford legend Michael 'Brick' Walsh has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling

New Waterford senior hurling manager Liam Cahill has taken the surprising decision to drop captain Noel Connors and Maurice Shanahan among others from his 2020 panel.

It’s a natural watershed.

C&S Neptune remain unbeaten in the Men’s Super League after a terrific 79-75 win over UCD Marian. The only other undefeated side are newly promoted Eanna, who inflicted a shock 87-70 defeat on Garvey’s Tralee Warriors.

Cahill believes the players are capable of carrying out different styles of hurling and intends tailoring tactics around their skillsets.

Former Tipperary All-Star Liam Cahill was ratified as the new Waterford senior hurling manager on a two-year term, with the option of a third, at last night’s county board meeting in Dungarvan.

Munster hockey’s biggest derby returns for the first time in four seasons as Cork C of I and Harlequins face off on the opening day of men’s Division One tomorrow.

GALWAY qualified for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Semi-Final, having survived the severest of stress tests from a vibrant Waterford at Semple Stadium.

If speculation hardens into fact, Davy Fitzgerald will take a break from inter-county management next season, thus ending 12 seasons on the sideline.

It wasn’t pretty but Tipperary manager Niamh Lillis was pleased that her charges hit the last five points to register a hard-fought 0-15 to 0-11 win over Meath in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship at Donaghmore-Ashbourne on Saturday.

The Waterford full-forward line was in devastating form as they proved far too strong for Monaghan in this TG4 All-Ireland SFC Group 2 clash at Shamrock Park in Cremartin.

Galway have one foot in the knockout stages of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland senior camogie championship after yesterday’s 2-12 to 1-10 triumph over Limerick at Kenny Park.

Cork, Waterford and Tipperary all secured their progression to the knockout stages of the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship this afternoon when they secured home wins at the expense of Meath, Clare and Dublin respectively.

Laois manager John Sugrue has named an unchanged side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC fourth-round qualifier against Cork.

Super sub JJ Hutchinson was the game-changer for Ballygunner in the final quarter as the champions blitzed Dungarvan with the last nine points of yesterday’s Round 2 contest at a wet, wet, wet Walsh Park (1-18 to 0-14).

There is no saving to be made by county boards from one of their flagship teams exiting the All-Ireland championship as early as mid-June, Galway treasurer Mike Burke has claimed.

Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald has drafted dual star Hannah Looney into his starting line-up for Sunday’s TG4 Munster Ladies Senior Football Championship Final against Waterford at Fraher Field, Dungarvan (6.30pm).

A strange week ended at around 20 to nine on Saturday night for the Waterford hurlers, and with it their season.

It is three weeks since Cork’s impressive performance against Limerick. A three-week break is a week too long and much of the momentum from that victory is lost.

Tonight, Cork face a Waterford side in crisis but the Leesiders are forewarned.

Cork attacker Robbie O’Flynn has sounded a word of warning ahead of this weekend’s Munster SHC clash with Waterford.

When the poet told us we cannot bear too much reality, he was hardly thinking of the Waterford hurlers, but you never know.

The All-Ireland champions’ defence is up and running at the second time of asking but if it’s a story you want then let’s start with a woeful Waterford side that finished with 14 men.

Ireland South may remain a debatable constituency but no recounts were needed in this corner of the province yesterday.

Limerick's summer looks a good deal brighter after this afternoon's Munster Championship duties in Walsh Park but the real story was the manner in which Waterford's descended from gloomy into pitch black.

Former Waterford selector Dan Shanahan says the Déise players must lift a downbeat county against Limerick in Walsh Park tomorrow.

Waterford stalwart Michael “Brick” Walsh is expected to make his 75th Championship appearance as a starter in Sunday’s do-or-die Munster SHC clash with Limerick.

The Shannonsiders were overturned by Cork in their opening game in the Gaelic Grounds after winning both of their home games in Munster last year.

Cork secured an impressive win in their opening game of the TG4 Munster SFC as they defeated Waterford 3-22 to 0-7 in their round two clash played at CIT on Sunday evening.