Limerick manager John Kiely paid tribute to his panel yesterday for maintaining their standards since winning last year’s All-Ireland success, saying “all the credit goes to the players” for kicking on to reach the Allianz League final.

What kind of game are Tipperary trying to prosecute, asks Enda McEvoy.

For many counties, the notion of this being a month for club championship action has looked more and more like an extended April fool’s joke, writes Mike Quirke.

They share more than a surname, principally a red-blooded passion for Cork GAA, with a combined 88 years of astonishing service to the cause.

Dublin ladies senior football team manager Mick Bohan has backed Clontarf clubmate Jack McCaffrey to make a full and successful recovery from cruciate knee ligament damage.

Kieran Donaghy looked like he went to sleep in Dunboyne on Saturday night and woke up in Croke Park back in 2006, such was the terror he was inflicting on that Galway full-back line in the first half.

Missing urine samples from GAA players that were due to form part of a drugs test will be destroyed if they are ever found, the statutory authority for sport has said.

SPORT Ireland has confirmed in a statement that it has sanctioned Kerry footballer Brendan O’Sullivan for an anti-doping rule violation but accepts that the player "bore no significant fault or negligence" for the infraction.

Mike Quirke gives his view of the lax protection given to some of the GAA’s top stars.

Westmeath boss Michael Ryan admits that he’s “really, really sorry” he won’t be sitting in the stand tomorrow when his native Waterford face Clare in the Allianz Hurling League final.

Born just two miles from the Kerry border, Cork’s Bríd Stack knows all about rivalry and bragging rights.

KILKENNY SHC FINAL:

Foolish pundits with space to fill in the aftermath of All-Ireland finals are frequently tempted to wax on about the likelihood of the new champions becoming a three-in-a-row team.

For a long time yesterday afternoon it looked as if Meath might just address the one gaping hole in a summer filled almost to the brim with sporting drama.

Tipperary county board chairman Sean Nugent has pinpointed the 2010 All-Ireland final as the day when relations with Kilkenny began to deteriorate.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin insists the Paddy McBrearty bite saga hasn’t affected his side’s Allianz Football League final preparations.

If Tyrone are to gain a starring rather than supporting role then they need to clip Dublin’s wings, and they need to do it sooner than later.

The GAA are looking into the possibility of staging one or both of the Interprovincial finals in Dallas, Texas in 2014.

By way of laying our scene for the new hurling championship, two conversations from the evening of May 6, shortly after the National League final.

Monaghan hurlers’ new manager hopes to put their national league final debacle behind them in time for the Nicky Rackard Cup.

The week a politician discloses his sexuality to the public, you’d imagine a quiet couple of days would be in order.

Jenny O’Leary hasn’t played in a major final since Cork lost to Wexford in the 2007 All-Ireland.

Kerry defender Aidan O'Mahony is hoping the Kingdom can deliver their 37th All-Ireland SFC title on Sunday, and earn the Rathmore clubman a fifth Celtic Cross.

BASKETBALL SuperLeague outfit Bord Gáis Neptune are expected to announce their new head coach next week after Pat Price revealed he was returning to the USA after a glittering career in Ireland.

Tonight’s game in Wexford Park is not hugely important for the hosts, certainly not remotely as important as it is for the visitors.

While losing an eight-point second-half lead to fall to Cork by a point in the Allianz Football League final may represent failure in some eyes, Dublin’s Barry Cahill doesn’t see things that way.

KERRY U21 manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes his county are in a situation where they usually thrive from.

WE HEAR so much about football being a panel game, it has not entered the realm of cliché. But, as with most cases, it’s a cliche born from truth.

KILKENNY secretary Ned Quinn has backed Brian Cody’s side to bounce back from Sunday’s Allianz League final defeat to Dublin and be a force in the championship.

THE CASE FOR ... By Fintan O'Toole

Alan Dillon has called for root-and-branch reform of Mayo football following their humiliating exit from the All-Ireland championship on Saturday.

ALAN DILLON has called for root and branch reform of Mayo football following their humiliating exit from the All-Ireland championship on Saturday.

THE faintest strains of a familiar song could be heard escaping from one onlooker’s MP3 player as John O’Mahony spoke softly of his decision to step down as Mayo manager on Saturday night.

CORK hurling selector Gerry Ryan says complacency is not an issue ahead of Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Limerick.

Dual player Eoin Cadogan could be about to feature in two high octane Munster Championship matches in the space of seven days, after making himself available for Cork's Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry on Sunday.