Kerry cruised to a third successive Electric Ireland Munster MFC title with Conor Geaney producing a masterclass against Tipperary at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

In 2013, Kerry defeated Tipperary in Fitzgerald Stadium to deny the Premier County footballers a minor three in a row.

Charlie McGeever has backed Tipperary’s dual star Stephen Quirke to make his mark as a senior inter-county footballer in the years to come.

No prizes for guessing what the Christmas toast will be around the hurling homes of Ballyhale — to second chances.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 0-21 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-14 (AET)

Offaly GAA chiefs are closing in on Pat Flanagan to replace Emmet McDonnell as the next county football manager.

Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen dropped into the count centre to watch proceedings in Co Offaly today.

Former Sydney Swan and All-Ireland winner Tadgh Kennelly stated the AFL’s recruitment in Ireland has changed for the better.

Our Lady’s Templemore 1-15 CBS High School, Clonmel 0-9

Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-21 Birr 1-14

We take a look at the vacant seats in counties countrywide.

Ollie Baker's spell in charge of the Offaly senior hurlers is over after two years in charge. The former All-Star midfielder from Clare will not be seeking a third year with the Faithful county.

Ollie Baker’s resignation as Offaly senior hurling manager was announced to the county board last night, after the former All-Ireland winning midfielder with Clare and St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield decided not to seek a third term.

Tipperary 0-11 Cork 0-8

Michael Hurley has been named at in attack in the only change to the Cork side for this evening’s Electric Ireland Munster MFC semi-final with Tipperary in Semple Stadium (7.30).

Not one harsh sending-off but two, that was the response of Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Danny Owens to the red cards his midfielders, Killian Leonard and Damien Kilmartin, received in yesterday’s AIB All-Ireland Club SHC final.

It may not have been great hurling in this club final yesterday but the weather had a lot to do with that.

AIB All-Ireland Club SHC Final

If you heard Anthony Cunningham speaking on RTÉ’s League Sunday last weekend, the chances are you detected a rasp of a sore throat on the Galway manager.

In a unique position to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of the two finalists in the All-Ireland club senior hurling final in Croke Park this Sunday are PJ O’Mullan and Seamus Quinn.

Thurles Sarsfield 1-14 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-20

Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Danny Owens was, understandably enough, quick to pay tribute to his team yesterday.

This isn’t a run of the mill story of a GAA club and a final.

In his role as Offaly Council chairman, Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Danny Owens had the opportunity to meet Barack Obama on the US president’s visit to Moneygall last year.

Danny Owens soldiered with Offaly sides that plucked many victories from the jaws of the defeat during the 1980s and early ’90s and yesterday guided his Kilcormac Killoughey side to a remarkable comeback win.

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.

Tipperary’s greater scoring power was the key factor as they overcame Cork Rebel Óg to capture the Humphrey Kelleher Memorial Cup at Millstreet on Saturday.

It’s a little-known fact but before there was an All-Ireland club championship at any grade in the modern era there was a Munster equivalent, with Glen Rovers of Cork beating Mount Sion of Waterford in a replay in 1964 to become the first champions.

TIPPERARY’S Moyle Rovers are the front runners to progress from Group A after swashbuckling performances against Ballinhassig and Kinsale.

THE most derided pillar in Irish public administration, the quango, has come to symbolise what is wrong with our bureaucracy.

FIANNA FÁIL’S decision on its last full day in power to appoint two of its own councillors to state boards was classic “stroke politics” and should never have happened, one of the party’s own TDs has said.

MARY HANAFIN appointed a Fianna Fáil councillor and friend of Brian Cowen to the board of the Irish Sports Council on her last full day as Tourism, Culture and Sport Minister.

ON February 1 last, the then Government issued a curious statement.