It’s just after noon on the day of the All-Ireland hurling final. About one thousand Tipperary people are gathered on Talbot Street in Dublin.

A Kilkenny-Tipperary All- Ireland final — wonders never cease.

It was the autumn of 1887. The warm summer was a distant memory. The hurlers of Tipperary and Kilkenny were about to meet for the first time in championship hurling. This rivalry — later to become one of the most vibrant in Gaelic games — got off to a start that was truly remarkable.

If the phoney war taketh away, sometimes the phoney war giveth.

Tony Wall was in charge of the last Tipperary championship team that took on Clare in Ennis.

Presentation College Athenry are back in the Croke Cup final, back to try and topple the undisputed kings of colleges hurling.

I met Nickey Brennan in the lift on the way out of Croke Park yesterday. “If ever a system needed to be redressed,” I said to him, “the set-up with the Galway club champions has to change.”

As expected the well-flagged appointment of Liam Sheedy as manager of the Tipperary senior hurling team was ratified last night by Tipperary GAA board.

It gives me no satisfaction criticising hurling referees but after the provincial round robins finished up yesterday, the standard is not at the level it should be.

The cancelled Garth Brooks concerts, the 2010 Leinster SFC final, the failed 2023 Rugby World Cup bid and the protracted process to redevelop Casement Park have been cited by GAA director general Páraic Duffy as the major disappointments of his 10-year tenure.

Michael Moynihan reflects on the life and career of Cork’s Willie John Daly.

Most farmers believe the Government should increase spending in next month’s Budget rather than cut taxes.

It feels like only yesterday hurling supporters were venturing to Thurles for the Cork-Tipperary Munster SHC quarter-final. Now we are just days away from the most novel All-Ireland final-day for many, many years.

TV ratings from last Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final revealed an average home viewing figure of just 1,183 watched the game on Sky Sports in the Republic of Ireland. In contrast, 532,000 took in the game on RTÉ2.

Sky Sports will exclusively televise the Munster SHC semi-final between Clare and Limerick in Thurles on June 4, the Irish Examiner can reveal.

The Munster Indoor Masters Championships drew a wealth of experience to the Nenagh track last weekend. Stephen Barry was there to watch veteran track and field stars who remain forever young.

Managers were largely unimpressed by the mark after its opening weekend as a permanent rule in inter-county football.

It’s the morning of the 1916 All-Ireland hurling final. The Tipperary hurlers are in Dublin — they walk down the quays and turn left onto Sackville Street.

Pat O’Connor wonders does a ‘holy trinity’ of officials exist for September Sunday?...

Work-rate more than goals will keep Waterford on the straight and narrow in Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final replay against Kilkenny, according to Noel Connors.

Championship meetings between Cork and Tipperary have been spinning a mythology for over a century. Michael Moynihan took a closer look at some of those myths.

One of the most interesting things about sport is how notions get stuck inside people’s heads and refuse to shift, regardless of the evidence available. A great example of this is the notion that the GAA is now ‘No Country For Old Men’.

Kerry have no issue with Meath’s David Coldrick being appointed to referee Sunday week’s All-Ireland final despite the match official both living and working in Dublin.

Loughmore-Castleiney’s motion aimed at shortening the 13-day rule will end the second-class treatment of club players, according to the club’s chairman Dick Egan.

Uncertainty surrounds the Fitzgibbon Cup after IT Carlow last night confirmed they were appealing their expulsion from the competition.

Cahir 1-10 Loughmore-Castleiney 2-7

Veteran ‘keeper Paul Fitzgerald has hung up his gloves after the Tipperary championship season ended with their defeat to Galway.

Almost like clockwork, Paul Rouse has tweeted each Monday with the latest Sky Sports live GAA viewing figures in Ireland.

Sorry, but is that it? Nearly a week on from all the hype and hysteria and no little fear that was triggered by the GAA’s new TV deal, has anyone actually looked at the games Sky has won exclusive rights to show?

Nenagh Éire Óg qualified for their first Tipperary SHC final since 2006 after a convincing semi-final replay win over Kildangan at Semple Stadium yesterday (1-17 to 0-12).

Tipperary Preview

For the second time in three years, Offaly’s Brian Gavin has been handed the role of officiating the All-Ireland final.