Business as usual in Kilkenny, Tipp are kidding no-one, but it’s a revision of the best-laid week-one plans for Messrs Meyler, Fanning, and Kenny, says Derek McGrath.

Passage manager Peter Queally was last night interviewed for the vacant Waterford senior hurling job — but Derek McGrath remains a live contender for the position.

The fixtures have fallen kindly for Donagh O’Donnell this weekend.

NIALL MORAN recalls a November afternoon from 2008. He took an Árd Scoil Rís team to Tipperary Town that day for a Dean Ryan Cupsemi-final against Blackwater CS.

LIKE many hundreds of St Colman’s fans, I was in Clonmel on Saturday last for the All Ireland Colleges final against St Kieran’s. We were all hoping to see history made as Colman’s strived for a three-in-a-row of Croke Cups.