Like Currid, Regan has previously worked with an All-Ireland-winning Tipperary team.

Can things go too well, too early? It’s a question Limerick aren’t used to, but Mark Foley doesn’t think it’s an issue.

Anthony Daly and John Fogarty review the hurling weekend and we hear from Ronan McCarthy and James Horan.

Limerick hurling manager John Kiely has confirmed that Performance Psychologist Caroline Currid has left his backroom team.

It may have taken more than 30 years after his last championship for the wisdom of John Wooden to cross over from his own sport and permeate the language and thinking in Irish coaching circles, but since it did, he has been pretty much a constant and towering presence there.

Declan Hannon had tears in his eyes when he was pictured immediately after Limerick’s defeat to Clare in the 2013 All-Ireland semi-final.

Even a side as well as prepared as this may have to lose one to win one, writes  Kieran Shannon.

Limerick turning Tipperary over is hardly something the Munster championship or the Gaelic Grounds hasn’t seen before yet there was something novel and different about this.

The problem if you make any conclusions after just one round of the league is you can make yourself a hostage to fortune, not just later in the summer but later the same week.

His three-year appointment was hailed as Dublin hitting the jackpot by chairman Andy Kettle, but Ger Cunningham’s first public appearance as the county’s senior hurling manager was fairly down to earth.

Derek McGrath has assembled a star-studded backroom team as he attempts to pip Peter Queally in the race to become Waterford’s new senior hurling manager.

Bringing in a sports psychologist was a master move by Limerick manager John Allen

Winning at the Olympics does away with the need for any profundities when signing the visitors’ book.

When trying to describe how good someone is in the women’s game the best recourse is to turn to the men’s game.

Kieran Shannon tells a story which explains why some counties need sports psychologists more than others.

Connacht club champions St Brigid’s are hoping performance coach Caroline Currid’s All-Ireland success will rub off on them.

COLIN REGAN never expected to be in this job. On February 21, 2010, his mind was only on football as he jogged out onto the pitch for the first run out of the year with Melvin Gaels, a day after firing 1-1 for the Leitrim senior footballers in a league game against Kilkenny.

CAROLINE CURRID has revealed she’s unlikely to continue as the Dublin senior footballers’ performance coach next year.

PREVIOUSLY, Kevin McMenamin’s head would have been wrecked before a big game, his nerves nearly shot, his energy practically drained.

KERRY might beat Dublin, but the occasion won’t.

A SPORTS psychologist who deals with GAA players who have alcohol addiction problems has disclosed that the youngest person she is dealing with is just 15.