PM O’Sullivan and Eoghan Cormican review the weekend’s hurling

Dan Shanahan makes no bones about it: “Semi-finals are about winning; if it’s eight points to seven with 10 sweepers, we’ll take it.”

Bill Cooper’s involvement with Cork came to a sudden halt a few years ago. The Youghal hurler was gathering momentum as a hard-working half-forward when his body betrayed him.

A leading sports physiotherapist claims young Gaelic players are “institutionalised” and many don’t realise what they have sacrificed for their sport until it is too late.

While I always enjoyed the hurling column of Tony Considine over the years I have to say that he went way over the top in his analysis of last Sundays hurling All-Ireland between Kilkenny and Galway (Irish Examiner September 8)

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.

Steve Neville believes it is time for a change to the GAA Championship structure.

Sean Kelly thinks it would be "a disaster" for the GAA to run off all its fixtures in the one calendar year.

Tipperary may be celebrating their hurlers’ successful journey through the back door and into an All-Ireland semi-final, but Brendan Cummins believes difficult decisions need to be made as the county continues to juggle big ambitions in both codes.

Pat Spillane fears Kerry may already be close to halfway into another 11-year spell without an All-Ireland title.

Another two weeks have still to crawl by before the ball is thrown in between Waterford and Cork, a game which will signal the start of the 2014 All-Ireland SHC in most people’s eyes.

“It’s only the league quarter-finals so it doesn’t really matter.” — Discuss in 1,000 words, using appropriate quotation and sarcasm to support your argument

The ninth Temple Bar Trad Fest opens today and features over 200 free events, including a musical trail and a family programme.

Contrary to the minority, it was indeed a year of progress for the Cork hurlers; a first championship victory over Kilkenny since 2004, the unearthing of new talent in Séamus Harnedy and an end to their seven-year absence from the September showpiece.

Down 2-17 Kerry 3-16

Liam Dunne has criticised former GAA president Christy Cooney for not doing enough for hurling.

Jamie Coughlan felt like as if they could keep running forever.

Having started her career with the Montforts, Cork singer Carol Anthony is now a dance music sensation and recently worked with Busta Rhymes, says Declan Cashin

PREPARING Garrycastle for a second Leinster club football final in three years in what could be his last game in charge would be enough to keep most managers occupied. But Anthony Cunningham’s been getting accustomed to multi-tasking since he his appointment as John McIntyre’s successor over the Galway hurlers in late October.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has suggested a compromise could be reached on the hurling league row.

THE last week has given a strange insight into the condition of Galway hurling over the past two decades after two dynamic and hugely talented underage sides produced emphatic victories on All-Ireland final day.

LIMERICK U21 manager Leo O’Connor has hit out at Saturday’s Central Council decision to alter the structure of the Allianz Hurling Leagues next spring.

Calls to change the Allianz Hurling League structures to two groups of six smack of elitism, according to Carlow manager Kevin Ryan, who reckons it will kill off the game in weaker counties.

HE was 19 when he first got his hands on a Celtic Cross.

All-Ireland SHC Qualifier (R3)

GALWAY boss John McIntyre candidly admitted Offaly were desperately unlucky not to have won at Croke Park yesterday.

TOMORROW, Antrim’s second season in the Leinster hurling championship will commence far away from the bright lights of the main stage with a quarter-final tie against Offaly, and that suits Shane McNaughton just fine.

OFFALY manager Joe Dooley insisted that yesterday’s Allianz National Hurling League Division 2 final success will count for nothing when the counties meet again in the Leinster SHC on May 30.

LIKE impatient passengers waiting for an overdue bus, Clare supporters had to hang around for over a year for Anthony Daly to take a significant championship scalp.

AS long as anyone can recall, the weaker teams at hurling’s top table have been crying out for more summer games with which to hone their skills and close the gap on the Corks and Kilkennys.

APRIL 10, 2005 was a day to send an involuntary shudder down the spine of Offaly supporters everywhere.

ADRIAN FENLON is not satisfied yet. Capturing the Leinster SHC crown after a seven year wait is a means to an end, just one more step on the road to Croke Park.