Cork and Clare meet in the Munster senior football final on Sunday in the Gaelic Grounds, a huge day for both counties, but their hurlers are also in action this weekend, Clare meeting Dublin in Ennis, Cork meeting Offaly in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Sometimes a sportsman escapes the ghetto at the back of the newspaper and makes it to the front, though it isn’t always for the right reasons.

Both Cork and Offaly have made changes for Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC Phase II qualifier at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The focus of the Gaelic football community was trained on Croke Park that Sunday in mid-April but a short distance south from those Division 1 league semi-finals was a game of huge significance irrespective of the lower grade.

IT has been a trying week for Munster Council chairman Seán Walsh.

FOR the second successive year, Sean Buckley dons the captain’s armband on Munster senior football final day.

LEST it has slipped everyone’s notice, in the week of the Munster senior football final, the Leinster senior hurling final, and a host of first-round football qualifiers, there’s also a big game going on in Tullamore on Saturday: a do-or-die All-Ireland qualifier game for the senior hurlers of Cork and Offaly.

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TINA and Larry O’Connor seem to be the perfect match. But at 4.30pm tomorrow they are prepared to make an honourable exception and become sparring partners.

A 14-man Limerick brushed aside an inept Clare challenge to reach the Munster Senior Football Final at a sunny Cusack Park, Ennis today.

PEADAR MCMAHON is a man of steel. Flesh and blood predominantly, but the Kilrush man has a will and a shoulder of iron.

Tipperary senior hurling boss Nicky English will name his team to play Offaly in Saturday's All-Ireland play off in Portlaoise following a squad training session in Portlaoise this evening.

Paul Cahill has been called up by Tipperary for the Munster senior football final against Cork at Thurles on Sunday.

Tipperary senior football goalkeeper Philly Ryan faces an anxious week prior to the Munster senior football final against Cork in Semple Stadium, Thurles having picked up a leg injury while playing for his club Clonmel Commercials.

Cork and Kerry will need a replay to decide who will meet Tipperary in the Munster Senior Football final after the two arch-rivals finished all-square in Killarney this afternoon.