New Cork senior hurling manager Kieran Kingston will make his championship bow as manager against Tipperary in Semple Stadium next May.

Munster Council chief executive Simon Moroney has expressed strong reservations over a proposal to bring forward the provincial football championships to mid-April.

Attendances at this year’s All-Ireland hurling and football championships reached 1,448,560, an increase of 9.2% on the 2014 figure.

Another season of intercounty Gaelic football action ended on Sunday but, unlike the fare in the final, these end of year awards wont let you down, writes Michael Moynihan

Marc Ó Sé hopes the Munster football championship returns to an open structure next year.

GAA president Liam O’Neill is hopeful that steps to resolve the threatened boycott by some counties of the Munster football championship next year might be taken at next week’s Central Council meeting.

It may have been a launch but yesterday was also a goodbye from Eugene McGee as Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

No Waterford team has ever won a Munster Club football championship.

The GAA can reverse some decisions, but others remain cast in stone. It all depends on the counties involved.

The Munster SFC seeding row took another dramatic twist last night as Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford threatened to pull out of the 2015 competition.

The Munster Council's decision to seed Kerry and Cork for next season's Munster Senior Football Championship has led the other four counties involved to threaten to boycott the province's 2015 Championship.

THE Munster senior hurling final isn’t just a game, it’s an occasion, an event long-established in the Irish psyche, and not just among GAA supporters.

Kerry 4-21 Waterford 1-4

Former Tipperary football boss John Evans was last night installed as the new manager of Roscommon.

Munster Council chairman Sean Walsh has warned the dissolution of the provincial championships would bring about the end of the All-Ireland competitions “within 10 or 15 years” ahead of tonight’s 2013 championship draws.

If you haven’t heard him over the last few weeks, you’ve surely heard of him.

I WATCHED some of the opening ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday afternoon.

‘Nothing beats being there’.

Kerry U21 boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice urged his team not to get carried away by last night’s 31-point demolition of Waterford in an extremely one-sided Munster football championship semi-final.

THREE cheers for the man who suggested, long before Cork and Kerry even took the field in the Munster football championship this year, that a ‘Justice for Paul’ campaign be started to save time.

IT’S THE same question every year. As sure as Cork and Kerry will produce a draw in the Munster football championship, we speculate as to who from the home nations is capable of producing any kind of a win on the annual summer sojourns to the southern hemisphere.

MUNSTER Council chairman Sean Walsh has admitted that attendances at the province’s championship games have been disappointing thus far but the Kerry native has predicted an abrupt about-turn in the coming weeks.

THE GAA yesterday launched a staunch defence of its admission prices for inter-county fixtures after a withering attack from Waterford’s John Mullane who labelled the cost of tickets as “shameful”.

AS A measure of the progress of the Waterford footballers, their post-match reaction in the Fraher Field on Sunday afternoon was instructive.

MUNSTER Council chairman Jimmy O’Gorman has admitted he is ‘very worried’ about the prospect of GAA chiefs abolishing provincial championships.

AFTER this dramatic finale to yesterday’s Munster football championship semi-final in Fitzgerald Stadium – when a Bryan Sheehan free earned Kerry a replay in the third minute of injury time – the big question supporters from both sides were asking themselves was how holders Cork failed to win a game they dominated for long periods.

THE abolition of the seeding system in the Munster football championship has galvanised the competition’s minnows according to Tipperary centre back Hugh Coughlan

Munster football ch.ship 09: Clare (bye to semi) v winner of Tipperary v Limerick; Kerry (bye to semi) v winner of Waterford v Cork

Limerick 1-8 Tipperary 1-5

AN ‘unmistakable’ downward trend in attendances at Munster football championship games is highlighted by secretary, Simon Moroney, in his report to next week’s annual convention in Lismore.

SEAN Og O hAilpin is exceptional in that he is the only member of the Irish squad for the International Rules series who doesn’t play football with his county.

Cork get their Munster football championship campaign under way today with a trip to Ennis to face Clare, who have already an outing under their belts.

Limerick midfielder Jason Stokes will miss his side's Munster football championship semi-final against Sunday's winners of Tipperary and Kerry on June 19.

AFTER the inter-county championship where anything could happen — and usually did — say hello to the predictable club championship.

THE DRAWS for the Bank of Ireland football and Guinness hurling provincial championships for 2005 will be televised on RTÉ 2 on Sunday at 7.30pm.

Limerick's Brian Begley is confident of playing some part against Tipperary in the Munster football championship.

KERRY Under-21 coach Jack O’Connor acknowledges the threat Limerick pose in tonight’s Munster football championship first round tie at Newcastlewest (8 pm).

THERE was a time when a Limerick senior footballer would be lucky to see one day of championship action in a year, when even the hurlers would be grateful for a second day out.