RTÉ released their championship schedule on Sunday and the most noticeable absentees from their coverage are the Munster senior hurling semi-finals.

What a difference a year makes.

After an extended break from intercounty hurling, 2010 Hurler of the Year Lar Corbett looks set to make his first appearance of the summer against Cork in the Munster Senior Hurling Championship.

Munster Council chairman Sean Walsh last night welcomed the return of the provincial ‘Supporter of the Year’ competition, in association with the Irish Examiner, for this season’s inter-county senior championships.

CHAIRMAN Barry O’Brien repeated his view that Tipperary can win an All-Ireland senior football title by 2020 as the county board launched a five-year strategic vision and action plan in Thurles last night.

AFTER obliterating their opponents in a Munster senior hurling final, it was difficult for Declan Ryan to find cause for complaint in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday afternoon.

LIMERICK selector Ciarán Carey insists the team are “very much a work-in-progress” as they prepare for a Munster senior hurling championship date with Waterford next month.

CORK made it an unwelcome hat-trick on Wednesday night, when their U21 hurlers became the third team from the county in-a-row to concede a last-minute equalising goal after a 21-metre free.

LOOKS like it was a classic, doesn’t it? Eighteen scores apiece, just four points separating them at the end, another in a long line of epic Munster senior hurling finals, yes?

HE has a dry wit, has Tipperary’s Lar Corbett, droll enough in delivery but effective nevertheless.

As the future of the GAA Players government grant scheme remains in question, the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) have called a press conference scheduled for tomorrow morning at a Dublin hotel.

CORK defender Cian O’Connor is likely to miss the Rebels’ Munster senior hurling championship opener against Tipperary on June 8, after suffering a knee injury on Friday evening.

AFTER almost a dozen years on the championship scene, it doesn’t get any easier for Clare’s multiple All-Star centre-back Seanie McMahon.

THERE are two major challenges occupying the mind of Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett this week.

ROLL out the barricades, the Tippmen are coming, and this time, they mean business.

NO ifs or buts. No excuses of any kind emanating from a sombre and subdued Deise dressing room.

The secretary of the Co Tipperary GAA board Michael O'Brien, has said that Tipperary should not enter into anymore home and away agreements for Munster Senior hurling finals.

Tipperary have dropped a bombshell by omitting John Leahy and Liam Cahill from the starting line-up for Sunday's Munster Senior hurling semi-final against Clare in Cork.