Raymie Ryan remembers first clapping eyes on the "impatient, talented young fella" that was Séamus Callanan when he took over as manager of Drom & Inch ahead of the 2007 campaign.

DESPITE pre-match reports of poor ticket sales last week, Tipperary and Cork still managed to draw the biggest crowd of the 2011 championship so far in Semple Stadium yesterday, with 31,231 paying in to witness the clash of the Munster rivals.

HE’S reinvented himself and hung in there when few others believed it was worth his while. So is Clyda’s Clydesdale Paudie Kissane finally about to get his just reward? He spoke to sports editor Tony Leen