Given the wealth of underage successes the club has enjoyed in recent years, the turnover in the Na Piarsaigh team shouldn’t come as a surprise.

This was a convincing return to fortunes for Na Piarsaigh whose fourth senior county title never really looked in doubt in the Gaelic Grounds.

Kerry and Donegal have had their proposed €7,500 fines reduced to €5,000 following a Central Hearings Committee (CHC) meeting in Croke Park on Wednesday night.

Limerick SHC final

Kilkenny 3-25 Limerick 0-16 (SH challenge): Kilkenny warmed up for the Leinster championship with an impressive win over Limerick in this inter-county challenge in Inistioge.

Cork have made four changes to their side for Sunday’s final Allianz HL Division 1A game against Tipperary at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Limerick scored all of their 3-20 tally from play, as they claimed the Waterford Crystal Cup for the first time since 2006, at Mallow GAA Club tonight.

Limerick 2-15 Waterford 1-15

The surprise Socialist victory in the Dublin by-election should act as a springboard for a national boycott of water charges in the New Year, Joe Higgins has insisted.

Water charges will be further reduced for vulnerable groups and low earners in steps to be announced in the budget.

Independent candidate Michael Fitzmaurice clawed back a 1,114-vote deficit after the first count to emerge victorious in the Roscommon South Leitrim by-election this evening.

Anti-Austerity Alliance candidate Paul Murphy has been elected to the Dáil, beating Sinn Féin poll topper Cathal King in the Dublin South West by-election.

Socialist MEP Paul Murphy is now just 291 votes behind Sinn Féin candidate Cathal King after the seventh count in the Dublin South West by-election.

Sinn Féin's topped the poll in the Dublin South West by-election, but faces a battle to win the seat with the Anti-Austerity-Alliance candidate just behind.

Votes will be counted this morning in the two Dail by-elections.

The byelection battle in Dublin South West is so tight that Sinn Féin sources are already talking about a recount.

A failure to win a seat in today’s Dáil by-elections will not be linked to questions around Micheál Martin’s leadership of Fianna Fáil, according to the party’s finance spokesperson, Michael McGrath. 

Whoever emerges as victor in tomorrow’s Dublin South West by-election, this particular poll could well be a weather vane for the shifting winds of politics, writes Michael Clifford

By-elections in Roscommon-South Leitrim and Dublin South-West will be held on Friday, October 10, the Government has announced.

Sinn Féin has nominated councillor Cathal King as its candidate for the imminent Dublin South West by-election — just weeks after he insisted he would not run in order to make room for a female candidate.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has pledged that his councillors will root out corruption if elected and also claimed that a newspaper group is running a campaign against him and his party.

While there are those in Limerick who bemoan the fact the Treaty are again plying their wares in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League, that is not a sentiment shared by first-year manager TJ Ryan.

Portumna (Galway) 1-15 Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 1-11

AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB SHC SEMI-FINAL:

Goalkeeper: Eddie Lynch (Passage)

Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 4-14 Sixmilebridge (Clare) 0-8

“Centre stage ...

Timing is everything

Na Piarsaigh 2-13 Kilmallock 2-12

I was expecting a tactical battle from the throw-in last Sunday and I was surprised when it failed to materialise. I will be astonished if Clare and Limerick isn’t a tactical engagement.

Limerick manager John Allen has selected an unchanged team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final showdown with Clare at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

Limerick boss John Allen admits that managing expectations on Shannonside will be one of his biggest challenges after Sunday’s sensational victory over 2012 champions Tipperary.

I want to start with a question — what is it about Limerick and fine sunny summer days, Munster championship, against big opposition?

Limerick 1-25 Kilkenny 1-20

ALLIANZ HL DIVISION 1B FINAL

Gardai are baffled by the shooting of a banker who was targeted outside his home.

The family of an innocent bank worker shot twice at his front door have moved out of the home.

Loughgiel (Antrim) 0-27 Na Piarsiaigh (Limerick) 2-13 (aet)

Crusheen (Clare) 0-9 Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 1-13, Thurles

LAST Sunday was a real test of character for both Na Piarsaigh and Crusheen, especially the final 10 minutes of their Munster Club decider.

IT’S nice to have the guesswork out of the way which is where we all were in the lead-up to the drawn game.

BEFORE I go into the match analysis, I want to comment on the admission price to get into Semple Stadium yesterday — €20.