Despite half of those who played in last September’s All-Ireland final playing in the semi-final of the Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship between Munster and Leinster, a crowd of less than 2,000 turned up at Nowlan Park on Sunday to watch.

The Munster Football Team to play Connacht in the Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship has been announced.

MENTION burnout to Ben O’Connor, and you begin to understand why he, Newtownshandrum and Cork are so successful.

THE feelgood factor around Boston on Sunday last, after Munster pipped Leinster in a high-quality Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Championship hurling final, was in marked contrast to the poisoned atmosphere in Australia at the conclusion of the International Series.