ALL-IRELAND champions Cork survived an extremely stern examination from Tipperary at The Ragg.

The difference between Galway 2017 and previous versions?

New Wexford senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald has included forward Jack Guiney in a winter training squad of more than 40 players.

Ireland’s Rugby World Cup odyssey has caused a headache for the GAA with major disruptions to county final club fixtures nationwide next weekend.

Tony Reddin, who died on Sunday aged 95, was a Galway native who established a reputation with Tipperary as a legendary hurling goalkeeper, whose brilliance was recognised in his selection in the GAA’s ‘Team of the Century’ and then in the ‘Team of the Millennium.’

Two of the last six All-Ireland Club hurling finalists will meet at the semi-final stages of the Offaly SHC next month after Kilcormac-Killoughey and Coolderry both eased through their quarter-final ties this weekend.

Offaly football manager Emmet McDonnell has called for a two-tier format to resolve the Leinster championship’s lopsided nature.

Birr 0-16 St Rynagh’s 1-07

Former Offaly great Ciarán McManus played a leading role in Tubber’s victory over Ferbane in the crucial final round robin stage of the county senior football championship last night.

Ever hear the story of the Carlow senior hurling final that took eight weeks to determine a winner? Urban myth or glorious fact?

Thousands flocked to Derry for the weekend’s Féile Peile na nÓg — the national festival of U14’s Gaelic Football for both girls and boys.

Dinny Cahill just ‘loves the buzz’.

St Rynagh’s and Kilcormac/Killoughey will clash in an Offaly SHC final for the first time after they registered penultimate round victories over Shinrone and Birr, respectively, in Tullamore yesterday.

Ken Hogan was extolling the talents of Loughgiel on Saturday when news came through the Antrim side had been taken to extra-time in their All-Ireland Club semi-final with Na Piarsaigh.

FOUR-time All-Ireland club champions Birr served notice of their intent when overwhelming reigning kingpins Coolderry by 1-16 to 0-10 in a one-sided fourth round encounter at Shinrone on Saturday.

FOR the first occasion since 1988, four-time All-Ireland club champions Birr won’t be involved in the Offaly SHC semi-finals, after they were defeated 0-11 to 0-10 by reigning champions Tullamore at O’Connor Park on Saturday.

Donoughmore (Cork) 1-8 Donaghmoyne (Monaghan) 2-7

IT’S fairytale time again. The small print changes every winter, but the plot remains the same. This year the unlikely lads are the Tullamore hurlers who have emerged from the shadows to challenge one of their code’s behemoths.

LADIES Football Association president Pat Quill said insisted that it is all systems go for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior and junior club finals, despite the continuing rainfall around the country this week.

TEENAGER Cormac Joyce-Power will make his Munster SFC debut for Limerick, who take on Tipperary at Semple Stadium next Sunday.

Offaly are expected to be without Ger Rafferty for Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Dublin as the St Rynagh's clubman is nursing a knee injury.

PADJOE WHELAHAN was last night ratified as the new manager of the Limerick senior hurling team for a two-year period.

LEGENDARY Birr boss Padjoe Whelahan is set to replace Dave Keane as manager of the Limerick senior hurling team.

ALL-IRELAND club champions Birr bid for their fifth consecutive Offaly SHC title against first-time finalists Ballyskenach at St Brendan’s Park tomorrow.

CARLOW have appointed former Kildare player Mick Condon as manager of their intercounty senior football side.

By Jim O’Sullivan AGAINST different opposition, Kilcormac/Killoughey might at least have been competitive over a longer period in yesterday’s Offaly county hurling final in St Brendan’s Park.