Tens of thousands rocked the home of Limerick hurling as the newly crowned All-Ireland champions arrived home in style with the Liam MacCarthy cup.

Latest: The All-Ireland hurling champions are at the Gaelic Grounds rounding off a night of celebration in the city.

A “spectacular” welcome home for the newly crowned All-Ireland Hurling Champions Limerick is promised for later this evening.

Limerick manager John Kiely admitted he “couldn’t block out” thoughts of his county’s defeats in the 1994 and 1996 All-Ireland finals as this year’s decider wore down.

All-Ireland winning captain Declan Hannon spoke from the heart and gave credit to every Limerick player, backroom team member, sponsor and supporter in an emotional speech.

The Gaelic Grounds will host the homecoming for the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Champions tomorrow.

Limerick legend Joe Quaid believes their players have the right mental approach to finally end their 45-year wait to lift the Liam McCarthy Cup this Sunday.

When the players involved in the All-Ireland SHC final are retiring to their beds next Saturday night, Niall Donohue is sure to pop into Conor Whelan’s mind.

Ahead of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals, the GAA has issued a warning for anyone thinking of buying or selling touted tickets.

Four-time All-Star Ollie Canning believes Galway's experience will see them retain the Liam McCarthy Cup.

Tyrone legend Brian McGuigan says they will need a big step up in performance if they are to challenge Dublin in next month's All-Ireland Football Final.

Demand for tickets to the match is huge.

After last year's heartbreak in the All-Ireland hurling final against Galway, Waterford's Austin Gleeson is determined to give it everything he has until he can bring Liam home.

Clare weathered a late Wexford comeback to advance to a first All-Ireland semi-final since 2013.

The prize for the winners of Sunday’s Offaly-Wicklow game is a date with Dublin, a take that John Evans likens to facing a ‘firing squad’.

Ex-Dublin senior football performance coach Fergus Connolly reckons the Super 8 All-Ireland SFC quarter-final stages will be a detriment to Irish society.

As the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh half opened last July for the All-Ireland quarter-finals, many would have seen it as an incredible chance to lay down a marker for the future of the GAA in Cork.

Over one million people tuned in to watch yesterday's All-Ireland footbal final between Dublin and Mayo, making the match the most-watched show on Irish television so far this year.

Everyone's favourite sports punditry double-act have been blown away by the GAA.

More than 50,000 supporters turned out across Galway to greet the All- Ireland hurling champions as they returned home, having won the senior and minor titles for the first time in the same year.

The turnout and enthusiasm by Waterford hurling supporters as their team arrived home last night after coming so close to All-Ireland glory left many wondering what it will be like when they do go and win it.

Derek McGrath has criticised the “sweeper” characterisation of Waterford on RTÉ’s Up For The Match programme on Saturday.

Enough is enough.

As David Burke was finishing his speech last Sunday, I was making my way along the Hogan Stand touchline for a piece with RTÉ when I felt this urge to go over to the devastated Waterford players and management still out on the field, says Tony Browne.

Waterford went a point up ten minutes into the second half. It had been tit for tat in the second period, but from that point on Galway had the scoring power to creep ahead and the experience to see out the game.

Derek McGrath is as talkative as ever but the toll of the day is clear.

In a TV interview afterwards, David Burke spoke about an incident midway through the second half, where he shouted to Joe Canning, Conor Cooney, and Joseph Cooney.

From a distance, the world looks maroon and white this morning.

Joe Canning has to merely do his bit for Galway to win whereas Austin Gleeson has to do more than his bit for Waterford to win. — (Sentence written at 3.25pm)

A righteous delivery is how Micheál Donoghue framed this victory and few could dispute him although we may have to wait for the dust to settle for him to point out exactly who were calling Galway “chokers” in the build-up to yesterday.

Another September. Dreams fled away, as Thomas Kinsella used to say.

A Special Congress to alter the format of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship in time for next year is strongly mooted to take place this October.

Update 12pm: Minister Leo Varadkar says the government stepping in to fund wage increases for Dublin Bus drivers would only lead to more strikes.

Other leading hurling counties will draw inspiration from Tipperary’s All-Ireland final win over Kilkenny, Tipp manager Michael Ryan believes.

A barnstorming response to an early second half Kilkenny goal was the catalyst for Tipperary’s first All-Ireland title triumph in six years.

Tipperary have a very fancy mascot.

Another All-Ireland quarter-final berth booked by Mayo, but the prospect of finally recapturing Sam looks further away than ever after this most unconvincing of wins on Saturday evening.

Brian Cody has named 12 of his All Ireland-winning side for Kilkenny's Division 1A League opener.

A motion proposing Division 4 teams enter a separate competition to the All-Ireland senior football qualifiers will go forward to next month's GAA Congress