Darragh O’Sullivan didn’t have much joy against Clare opposition during his Ballygunner playing days. He’s hoping for better luck now that he’s traded the jersey for the bainisteoir’s bib.

Brian Cody’s extraordinary longevity as manager of the Kilkenny hurlers throws up some fascinating statistics.

Super sub JJ Hutchinson was the game-changer for Ballygunner in the final quarter as the champions blitzed Dungarvan with the last nine points of yesterday’s Round 2 contest at a wet, wet, wet Walsh Park (1-18 to 0-14).

Former Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins is an early favourite to succeed Derek McGrath as Waterford manager.

Denis Walsh’s life, so many ways, has been a weave of Cork and Waterford.

It’s a shame it’s not in place for this year, this weekend. Picture it – and with weather like this, it’s so easy to picture it.

Listening to JJ Delaney, Tommy Walsh and Aidan Fogarty on Off The Ball last weekend, it was striking if there was one thing they loved more than winning it was simply playing and if there was one thing they hated more than losing it was not playing at all, writes Kieran Shannon. 

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 0-17 Ballygunner (Waterford) 0-16: Yesterday’s Munster Club SHC quarter-final came down to one play in injury time, when Thurles Sarsfields’ free-taker, Pa Bourke, stood over a 65 that would nudge his side one ahead against Waterford champions Ballygunner.

New Wexford hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald was the unanimous choice of the six-person committee charged with finding the Model County’s next boss, and has been set a target of achieving promotion from Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

Patrick Curran shot 1-8 as Dungarvan enjoyed a convincing win against Passage at Fraher Field last night (1-16 to 2-8).

Stephen O’Keeffe saved a last minute penalty from Shane Ryan to salvage a draw for holders Ballygunner against 14-man De La Salle at Walsh Park on Saturday evening.

One of the most interesting things about sport is how notions get stuck inside people’s heads and refuse to shift, regardless of the evidence available. A great example of this is the notion that the GAA is now ‘No Country For Old Men’.

Na Piarsaigh (Limerick) 2-18 Ballygunner (Waterford) 2-11: Na Piarsaigh’s greater experience and physicality served them well yesterday in Semple Stadium, as they turned on the afterburners in the second-half to beat Ballygunner to the Munster Club senior hurling title.

Ballygunner manager Denis Walsh pointed to the Na Piarsaigh purple patch after half-time as the turning point of yesterday’s Munster Club senior hurling final.

“I imagine people weren’t expecting us to win in Waterford this year,” says Ballygunner selector Gary O’Keeffe.

Resilience has been central to the exploits of both teams in their Munster campaigns.

Pauric Mahony hasn’t circled a date in the calendar, but the 23-year-old intends to have a good body of work under his belt come next summer so that he can play a full part in Waterford’s 2016 championship campaign.

Pauric Mahony has been impressed with how Brian O’Sullivan has performed as Ballygunner’s free-taker.

Waterford SHC semi-final

Waterford SHC quarter-finals

Three time county champions De La Salle face a relegation play-off to keep their Waterford SHC senior status intact after Fourmilewater dumped them out of the race for the News & Star trophy on Saturday evening at Fraher Field.

It was a small thing but it told us a lot.

Sean O’Gorman on the men that defied the odds and the critics to win the All-Ireland senior hurling final in 1990.

A PHOTGRAPH from the Irish Examiner archives is instructive. Sean O’Gorman, Ger Cunningham, Brendan O’Sullivan, Denis Walsh and Canon Michael O’Brien stand on the steps of the Hogan Stand amidst a sea of red and white, apart from Walsh who wears Galway maroon. 

Brian Hurley expects to be fit for Cork’s Division 1 opener against Dublin on February 1 after being told he suffered no serious damage to his left shoulder on Sunday.

The departure of Tommy Walsh from the inter-county stage means we won’t see that red helmet blaze through a thicket having won a puck-out.

Cork managers are the ones who called the shots in ending the dual commitments of Eoin Cadogan, Damien Cahalane and Aidan Walsh, according to former hurling boss and dual player Denis Walsh.

Daniel Kearney owes much to Jimmy Barry-Murphy. At 5’9 and of slight build, Kearney certainly does not fit the stereotypical mould of an inter-county player.

There is a danger that Gaelic football will stagnate unless it reforms itself radically, argues Dónal Óg Cusack

The same day the Cork hurlers played their last game under Denis Walsh, the Limerick footballers met Offaly in the curtain-raiser in the Gaelic Grounds.

The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

Henry Shefflin has revealed he has a growing appreciation of the reasons why the Cork hurlers went on strike in 2002.