An “off the cuff” approach can steer Clare past Cork in Saturday’s sink-or-swim qualifier clash, according to two-time All-Ireland medal-winner Frank Lohan.

Clare football coach Ephie Fitzgerald has rubbished suggestions they will encounter a fragile Cork outfit in Sunday’s Munster semi-final.

Hurling coaches are choking the game to death. What materialised inside the whitewash at Thurles on Sunday reaffirmed my concerns for the game. 

Adare's John Fitzgibbon was the hero for Limerick but Clare were left counting the cost of their indiscipline in a niggly and sometimes ugly Munster quarter-final.

Seamus Sexton beat Pat Butler by a bowl in a brilliant Munster intermediate championship quarter-final at Timoleague.

"Just bad bruising and a bit of swelling," was the price Stephen O’Keeffe paid for bravely putting his body on the line to block Anthony Nash’s penalty on Sunday.

For the second successive year, James McGrath from Westmeath has been chosen to referee an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final replay.

IT’S not like it hasn’t happened before. It’s not as if it was the biggest demotion of the day in the world of sport either. But Kieran Donaghy’s axing from the named Kerry team for Sunday’s Munster final has raised a variety of questions.

New Clare football manager Mick O’Dwyer has described the yellow card rule as “a joke”.

Marc Ó Sé is out of Kerry’s Munster quarter-final against Tipperary on Sunday with a hamstring tear.

Disappointment tempered by relief, that was the reaction of former Kilkenny great Eddie Keher to the news yesterday that while Richie Power will miss Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A final, the injury he suffered playing for Carrickshock in Saturday’s club game against James Stephens isn’t as bad as first feared.

LIMERICK football boss Maurice Horan is sweating on the availability of star midfielder John Galvin ahead of their Munster championship opener on June 4th after he sustained a blow to his knee in a challenge match against Down on Sunday.

FOR years, Armagh had to fend off criticism they were an ageing side.

LIAM SHEEDY has made four changes to his Tipperary starting line-up as they attempt to revive their All-Ireland SHC challenge in tomorrow’s qualifier tie against Wexford in Semple Stadium after the defeat against Cork in the Munster quarter-final in May.

Cork-Kerry rivalry enters a new phase when they clash for the first time in the Bank of Ireland SFC semi-final at Croke Park today.