Following an opening week defeat by Tipperary, Cork turned around their Munster SHC campaign with an impressive seven-point win over All-Ireland champions Limerick.

Summer hurling’s opening weekend threw up killer lines.

John Meyler has reacted to Cork’s defeat to Tipperary by making four changes for tomorrow’s Munster SHC Round 2 in the LIT Gaelic Grounds.

Eighteen years have elapsed since a 15-man Cork last lost a Championship game to Limerick over 70 minutes. But defeat on Sunday at the Gaelic Grounds puts John Meyler's squad behind the eight-ball. Here are five key changes Cork must get right to be back in business.

Diarmuid O’Sullivan has been nothing if not consistent.

Hard work did a young Na Piarsaigh side make of this first-round Cork SHC clash.

We are a week into Munster Championship Lent. The 40 days and 40 nights before the start of the Munster SHC on May 12 commenced last Tuesday.

Ger Millerick has been named in a strong Cork hurling team to face Kilkenny in Wednesday night's "Kieran O'Connor Benefit Game" in Páirc Uí Rinn.

The Kilmacud Crokes-Craobh Chiaráin Dublin league game threw in yesterday morning at 10.30am.

Waterford 1-20 Cork 1-23: So foolish we were to think Waterford would go gently into the night.

Diarmuid O’Sullivan has admitted he’s haunted by Cork’s second-half collapse against Waterford last August and he acknowledged the management team got some big calls wrong.

Christopher Joyce is paying little heed to league results. There are far more important matters at play, insists the Cork hurler.

Forget the existential challenge of watching a 2018 game in 2017, and disregard the bone-chilling rain, writes Michael Moynihan

We were impressed with how Blackrock went about their business in the semi-final victory against Na Piarsaigh.

The sweeper system works

Galway are there. Cork and Waterford are nearly there. Hurling is taking its August turns. Lovely late summer cadences.

Pat Hartnett doesn’t see any notable shift in mindset or culture as being the root cause of Cork hurling’s latest coming. The players, he insists, are simply doing themselves justice.

Hurling pauses, if only to catch its breath. 

Conor Lehane knows from experience that Saracens will be facing a freak of nature if he plays in the Champions Cup semi-final in Dublin on Saturday.

Irish Examiner writers Michael Moynihan and John Fogarty review the Allianz League weekend.

Christopher Joyce is swift to intervene when you ask whether the Cork hurlers’ training sessions have had an extra bounce since they beat Waterford the weekend before last.

Cork had the upper hand in windy Walsh Park, winning by eight points against an off-colour Waterford side.

At half-time, the Cork players and the match officials were left waiting for Clare for a number of minutes in the bitterly cold conditions. 

Dual star Seamus Kennedy is primed to make his senior hurling debut for Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Cork at Semple Stadium.

Cork 1-26 Clare 1-13: A comfortable win for Cork in this senior hurling challenge game against Clare was marred by a concussion injury suffered by defender Cormac Murphy in the second half. 

Cork 2-22 Kilkenny 2-23: An enthralling game on Saturday night came to a fitting end deep in injury time at Páirc Uí Rinn — Kilkenny sub John Power intercepted a clearance by Cork ‘keeper Patrick Collins to loft over a long-distance winner and condemn the home side to a fourth NHL 1A loss.

This was a superb contest last Saturday night. Cork were six points up and it looked as if they were going to hold out for a much needed win with five minutes remaining in normal time.

Cork hurlers will be without defender Colm Spillane for the rest of 2016, after it was yesterday confirmed he suffered a cruciate tear in Saturday’s Division 1A game against Waterford.