It may have been the individual brilliance of Patrick Horgan which took them past Erin’s Own last month, but according to Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher, it’s been the squad’s collective commitment that has them looking forward to a second successive Munster Club Championship campaign.

These days, when the Cork county senior hurling championship final is called the ‘Little All-Ireland’ it’s done so with a healthy sense of self-depreciation as opposed to the self-delusion that existed in the past.

Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 2-18 Ballygunner (Waterford) 2-11: Na Piarsaigh’s greater experience and physicality served them well yesterday in Semple Stadium, as they turned on the afterburners in the second-half to beat Ballygunner to the Munster Club senior hurling title.

Dingle chairman Seamus Ó Bambaire says the Kerry County Board must now take action to ensure no club suffers the same as they have due to the Munster Club Championship fixture controversy.

Waterford secretary Timmy O’Keeffe fears teams could be eliminated from county championships by June if national proposals to condense club competitions into a calendar year are successful.

Michael Cussen is likely to be one of the players included in the Cork senior football squad for the McGrath Cup, which begins in January.

Podge Collins has admitted there was only ever going to be one outcome when Davy Fitzgerald told him to choose between Clare hurling and football.

Limerick footballer John Galvin says it is remarkable that only the second senior club game he has started should yield him a county championship medal after guiding his adopted club Cratloe to glory in Clare on Sunday.

Goalkeeper: Eddie Lynch (Passage)

With a first county senior hurling title since 1991 safely under their belt, the next focus for Midleton has to be the Munster title — so says former great John Fenton. The only Cork club to have won the provincial crown since his own side did it in 1987 has been Newtownshandrum.

Na Piarsaigh have set their sights on further silverware following Sunday’s Limerick SHC victory.

Taking Cork home games in the Allianz Football League outside of the city is not a catch-all fix for poor attendances, according to the county’s PRO.

Lar Corbett has claimed horses are treated better than the best hurling club teams in the country.

It’s hard writing about this game. Having watched Thurles Sarsfields up close from my role with Kilmallock, we’ve tried to move on from the defeat.

Shane Nolan can still hear the words manager James McCarthy whispered in his ear before being introduced as a 47th minute substitute in last Sunday’s Cork SFC final against Duhallow.

De La Salle 1-21 Dungarvan 0-12

They won a third Cork county title in five years on Sunday, but Sarsfields are already looking to the Munster Club championship, says long-serving attacker Kieran ‘Fraggie’ Murphy.

They provided one of the most uplifting stories of 2011.

Cork captain Donal Óg Cusack has paid an emotional tribute to fellow hurler Dessie Fitzgerald as the Charleville man today prepares to marry sweetheart Sarah McEvoy.

BALLYGUNNER legend Paul Flynn says his clubmates, who face Limerick’s Na Piarsaigh in the Munster club SHC semi-final on Sunday, are a more experienced outfit than people think.

MID KERRY forward Gavan O’Grady is putting college friendships on ice for Sunday’s Kerry senior football decider.

IT won’t bother Crusheen today, their title retained, but the question has to be asked: should this Clare SHC final have been allowed go ahead?

THE importance of leadership in a college team competing in the county championship cannot be overstated.

THE easy cliche about Sunday’s county final win by Carrigtwohill — so easy we’ve thrown it out a few times already — is that it offers a template to other clubs in Cork looking to achieve the same level of success.

CORK’S wait for All-Ireland football glory was becoming exhausting before last month’s success and the Kavanagh family served as a perfect microcosm of that.

WATERFORD hurling legend Tony Browne has confirmed his retirement from the inter-county game after this, his 19th season at the top level.

DIARMUID O’FLYNN (DO’F): “Francis, you actually recorded a series of firsts in your career?”

IT was celebration time in the GAA on Sunday on the exact date of that famous meeting in Hayes Hotel in Thurles 125 years ago.

IT’S a scene replicated everywhere in Ireland, new clubs coming to the fore in county finals.

THEIR recent county championship exit may have brought dejection for Kerins O’Rahilly’s, but the Tralee club salvaged something from their season with victory in yesterday’s Kerry Senior Club Championship final at Austin Stack Park.

CORK SHC FINAL:

THE first weekend of November doesn’t mean an easing of the demands placed on Cork’s Michael Cussen.

KERRY chairman Jerome Conway hopes Pat O’Shea will remain at the helm next season.

RACING people are often heard referring to talking horses. This relates to a bright, young thing, yet to be asked the big question. The animal has been showing all the right signs on the gallops but is yet to be tested when it counts on the track.

THE prospect of leading Cork into next year’s Guinness All Ireland hurling championship – an honour he held in the 1993 campaign – might appear too tempting as Brian Corcoran contemplates retirement. He would not talk about 07; he’d rather enjoy this week and the upcoming Munster club Championship.

The five selectors who guided Cork to All Ireland SHC hurling glory last September will be in place again next year.

St. Senan’s Kilkee 3-8 Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-9

IT’S been a tough week for Clare GAA fans. Last Sunday, dreams of a Munster SHC final slipped away, and for good measure, the intermediate team sank as well.

Waterford's Paul Flynn has been honoured with the County Hurler of the Year award.