Tipperary’s footballers may be losing captain Peter Acheson to Dubai but Conor Sweeney believes their achievements this summer can act as a magnet for some of those lost to the panel this season.

Tommy Carr’s RTÉ co-commentary on yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final has come in for scathing criticism from a number of inter-county footballers, including Dublin’s Jack McCaffrey.

I have been involved in some proud, emotional days in a Tipperary jersey and I cried when Liam McGrath raised the All-Ireland minor trophy in 2011. But this beats them all.

Tipp’s kickout strategy must be on the money tomorrow. It sprang the odd leak against Cork, writes Declan Browne.

Tipperary’s historic Munster semi-final win over Cork last month will see them awarded with a last four bye next year but Peter Acheson still has a problem with the provincial structure.

The mathematics of championship selection is pretty elementary. Eight into six doesn’t go. Nor does nine. So which of the Kerry forwards is dodging awkward conversation with Éamonn Fitzmaurice before the Munster football final on July 3?

Tipperary 1-15 Waterford 1-7: Tipperary’s football pulse, having slowed somewhat during a turbulent and disruptive spring, quickened a beat in Dungarvan yesterday.

Tipperary 3-21 Louth 0-7: “Is it worth anything to us really,” questioned Peter Creedon.

Tipperary delivered a polished and confident performance to comfortably brush aside the challenge of Waterford in this one-sided Munster SFC quarter-final contest.

U2 drummer Larry Mullen and his long-term partner Ann Acheson have sued their former accountants, claiming they suffered losses of more than €11m due to alleged, unsuitable investment advice.

Galway 4-17 Tipperary 4-12

Tipperary 3-17 Laois 4-9

Tipperary 2-17 Longford 0-6

Jack Sheedy’s Longford were bounced out of the All-Ireland senior football championship by Tipperary this afternoon.

Cork 0-16 Tipperary 1-11

Tipperary made easy work of Limerick to line up a Munster football semi-final against Cork in three weeks' time, but the refereeing of the black card rules still remains a major talking point.

UCC 0-15 CIT 0-15 (aet)

Offaly 2-10 Tipperary 1-08

Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

Tipperary -10 Antrim 0-08

Last Saturday evening in Thurles was one of those rare occasions when Tipperary’s senior footballers carried the tag of favourites into a championship game.

Tipperary 1-12 Offaly 0-10

Tipperary 0-10 Kerry 0-16, Semple Stadium

Longford boss Glenn Ryan was “delighted” with the battling qualities shown by his team who came from behind to earn a draw and promotion in Thurles on Saturday night.

ONLY 29 days have elapsed in the first month of the 2012 season and the Cork senior footballers got their hands on silverware at the Clonmel Sportsfield yesterday.

A REMARKABLE football year for University College Cork could have an ending to match on December 4.

ALL-Ireland minor football medallist Philip Quirke scored two second-half goals to settle yesterday’s Tipperary SFC semi-final and send Moyle Rovers through to a first decider since 2009.

TIPPERARY boss John Evans has slammed the “poaching” of some of his top stars by American clubs.

TIPPERARY were transformed after half-time at Semple Stadium yesterday as they got off to a winning start against Limerick in Division 3 of the Allianz NFL.

A strong enough re-make of the 2005 French thriller – though still lacking that certain style that the French can give their films, specially their thrillers – given substance by a strong cast and the backcloth of scenic Venice.

Tipperary 0-13 Laois 0-12

Tipperary 2-06 Kerry 2-18

KERRY football boss Jack O’Connor has named ten of last September’s All-Ireland winning team for the opening clash of their All-Ireland title defence in Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium.