The gates of Cusack Park could be reopened later this month to stage the third round of Clare SHC games.

Tipperary 0-20 Limerick 0-17: A rousing finish from Tipperary – in which Liam Cahill’s charges hit four unanswered points in the final four minutes of action – put paid to Limerick’s Munster minor hurling three-in-a-row bid.

Declan Hannon and Seamus Hickey have been returned to the Limerick hurling team for tomorrow evening’s qualifier clash against Dublin.

Clare minor hurling manager Kenny Morrissey is adamant this evening’s Munster minor semi-final against Tipperary should not have been scheduled so close to the end of the Leaving Cert.

Ballina produced the shock of a busy weekend of Tipp hurling action with a 2-17 to 2-14 win over a very fancied Kilruane MacDonaghs in the North senior hurling championship at Puckane.

John Coghlan held off London 2012 Olympic marathoner Mark Kenneally to take the St. Patrick’s festival 5k road race in Dublin city centre yesterday, a race organised by his father Eamonn Coghlan.

A surprise, but welcome, women’s team bronze medal brightened up a mixed day of Irish performances in Borovets as Fionnuala Britton battled to a sixth place finish at the European Cross Country Championships yesterday.

Mary Cullen stormed to a course record of 25 minutes and 37 seconds in windy conditions at the Axa Raheny five-mile race yesterday while there was also plenty of action in the Woodie’s DIY National Junior and U23 Championships in Athlone.

Tipperary’s senior footballers will be without influential pair Brian Fox and Michael Quinlivan for next Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Kerry in Killarney.

Cappamore (Limerick) 2-07 Borrisokane (Tipperary) 0-06

Tipperary GAA chiefs have once again been left red-faced by the Munster Council after provincial top brass overruled a decision to relegate Borrisokane from the county senior hurling championship.

FURIOUS Ballybacon-Grange officials are up in arms after Tipperary GAA chiefs ordered them to replay their SHC relegation clash against Cashel King Cormacs.

DIVISIONAL forces have been commonplace in Cork and Kerry senior championships for several years but embracing the concept in Tipperary has led to an unlikely football success story.

THE scene for the knock-out stages of the North Tipperary SHC is almost set following the penultimate round of games at the weekend.

CORK hurling boss Denis Walsh last night handed out three full championship debuts for Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium.

BORRISOKANE landed the Tipperary IHC crown yesterday and ensured that no fewer than 12 teams from the North division are eligible for senior fare in 2011.

JAMIE COSTIN achieved the qualifying standard for the European championships but there was disappointment for Robert Heffernan and Olive Loughnane who were both disqualified at the Coppa Città di Sesto San Giovanni IAAF Race Walking Challenge on Saturday.

OVER 3,000 runners will go to the starting line for tomorrow’s “Ballycotton 10”, Ireland’s most enduring and successful road race.

BATTLING St. Brogan’s, Bandon triumphed on the double at Kilmurry yesterday, retaining their Cork Co Vocational Schools S’A’HC title and booking a place in the Munster final against Tipperary opponents in the process.

EILEEN O’KEEFFE launched herself into 13th position in the global rankings for the year when she took her national record to 73.21 metres en route to a seventh successive hammer throw title at the Woodies DIY National Track and Field Championships at Morton Stadium on Saturday.

ST BROGAN’S College, Bandon are on course to make it a double when they play St Fergal’s College (Rathdowney) in the All-Ireland vocational schools SHC final at Cahir today (3.30pm).

St Brogan’s, Bandon 2-13 Borrisokane CC 2-10

ROBBIE OSBORNE'S Latino Magic found a devastating turn of foot to land the featured McDonogh EBF Handicap by two and a half lengths at Galway last night.

Borrisokane CC 2-9 Coláiste Mhuire, Johnstown 0-8

CORK will be without five of their All-Ireland-winning starting fifteen - Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, John Gardiner, Kieran Murphy and Brian Corcoran - for their opening Allianz National Hurling League game against Limerick at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday.

There were some top quality performances at the National Indoor Championships in Nenagh today with sprinters in particular, catching the eye.

NENAGH residents are planning a street rally next Saturday to protest against the Hanly report on the health services.

DEFENDING champions Tipperary have left a vacancy at corner forward for tonight’s Munster MHC semi-final against Limerick as they wait for fitness reports on two players who are in line for the position.

The following is the Tipperary minor hurling team to play Limerick Wednesday next in Thurles.

THERE are three first round games down for decision tonight in the Munster minor hurling championship and for the first time in the competition the losers will have a second chance.