Ballinacourty’s gentle giant this week decided to call time on his 14-year Waterford career

Limerick manager Justin McCarthy will tonight confirm his team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final showdown with Tipperary, and both of the Moran brothers, Niall and Ollie, are pushing for selection.

FOR your edification, snatches of conversations overheard in the media lift on Sunday afternoon, as we headed in search of reaction from the principals involved in the dramatic Limerick/Waterford All-Ireland SHC semi-final, conversations that were surely repeated wherever hurling is followed.