Highly-rated strength and conditioning coach Ross Corbett, who worked with Limerick’s 2015 All-Ireland U21 winning hurlers, has accepted a dream job with AFL outfit Sydney Swans.

Muster SFC semi-final

Cooperation and common programmes are the key to avoiding burnout and fatigue in the GAA, says a leading figure in strength and conditioning.

Dr Liam Hennessy, the IRFU’s former fitness director, has pointed to the issue of match scheduling as a huge challenge for northern hemisphere teams seeking to succeed at the Rugby World Cup.

Last week, Tyler Bleyendaal, Munster’s major signing from New Zealand, made his first appearance in the red jersey after dealing with 12 months of deep frustration because of a career-threatening injury. He came through in style.

Padraig Harrington isn’t currently in the field for the second major of the year in June but reckons a top-five finish in one of four upcoming tour events will be enough to secure him a spot in the US Open for the 14th consecutive year.

For an overview before the hurling season started, Michael Moynihan spoke to GAA coach/tutor Damien Young, who lectures in strength and conditioning at Limerick IT and Setanta College as well as working as a performance analyst for the Tipperary senior hurlers

In the aftermath you may have missed it, but the remarks bear revisiting.

Eoin Cadogan will take his first steps into coaching when he links up with the Armagh hurlers next season — despite yesterday committing to Cork’s footballers in 2015.

Back in February, Eoin Cadogan said his piece. Frustrated, the usually mild-mannered dual player spared his chest of a gripe on Twitter.

When Donal O’Grady stepped down from his position with Limerick on April 22, there was panic in the county, real fears that the vacuum created couldn’t be filled in time for the challenge they faced against Tipperary in Thurles in the Munster semi-final.

Recently retired Connacht Rugby captain Gavin Duffy has been appointed to a new role with the province, as Senior Development Executive, within the Commercial & Marketing department.

Former Connacht Rugby captain and current Mayo footballer, Gavin Duffy, is returning to the province to take up a new role in the commercial department.

Niall Ronan is to focus on the exact reason he had to retire from professional rugby to embellish the next stage of his working life — injury.

Munster's Niall Ronan has announced he will retire from professional rugby at the end of the season due to injury.

Last Monday, Nate Silver re-launched his website, fivethirtyeight.com, writing a lengthy manifesto to accompany the new-look site, which features an equally lengthy list of new writers.

When injury ended Julie Davis’ promising career as a hurdler, she wanted to stay involved in sport, but in what context?

AFTER a series of injuries last year, Cork GAA player Eoin Cadogan is ready hit the pitch running — as a hurler and a footballer.

Roy Keane recently hailed hurling as the best sport in the world and the Manchester United legend may prove responsible for luring one of Cork’s finest exponents of the ancient code back into the inter-county fold.

AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC SEMI-FINAL:

DR Liam Hennessy of Setanta College (inset) can draw on a lifetime of experience in preparing teams when considering how Cork and Clare might have readied themselves for combat in tomorrow night’s replay.

A few weeks ago we sat down with Cork footballer Eoin Cadogan, who mentioned the course he was doing in Setanta College.

Jason Ryan admits he had toyed with the idea of leaving Wexford over recent seasons.

Mark Rohan’s story is so engaging it could keep the spools of a recorder turning for hours but, this being Ireland, the conversation eventually wound its way around to the more humdrum topic of the weather on Thursday.

WHILE he is better known as an All-Ireland senior hurling medal winner with Cork in 1999, Kevin Murray was also a talented footballer, playing with Dohenys until six years ago.

ONE of Ireland’s foremost sports physiologists Dr Liam Hennessy is to head up a new state-of-the-art institute aimed at improving Irish sports performances.