Kiskeam 0-21 Naomh Abán 0-16

Roscrea 1-12 Moycarkey-Borris 1-11

Marksman David Flynn was the hero as Roscrea edged out Lorrha 2-12 to 1-14 in a thrilling Tipperary SHC third round tie.

Roscrea justified their favourites’ tag with a comprehensive 4-13 to 1-9 win over Cashel in the second round of the Tipperary SHC at Templemore last night.

Kiskeam snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a brilliantly executed Billy Dennehy penalty six minutes into injury time in this second round clash at Coachford last evening, leaving Kinsale, who looked destined for the win with normal time complete, shell-shocked.

OF the 132 men who have hurled 15 SHC matches or more with Tipperary, 125 have won an All-Ireland medal on the field of play.

TIPPERARY champions Thurles Sarsfields put their poor divisional form behind them as they hammered Knockavilla Kickhams 6-21 to 1-12 in the first round of the county senior hurling championship at The Ragg.

LAST year’s captain Willie Ryan is one of six players axed from Liam Sheedy’s Tipperary senior hurling championship panel ahead of their big championship clash with Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh at the end of next month.

2008 team colleagues Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Jerry O’Connor return to the Cork colours for Sunday’s Allianz NHL clash with Limerick at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

There are no players from Cork selected to start for Munster in their Martin Donnelly Interprovincial Hurling semi-final with Connacht at Pearse Stadium, Galway on Saturday.

LIAM SHEEDY couldn’t help but raise a quizzical eyebrow when John McIntyre described Tipperary as the second-best team in the country at the launch of the NHL earlier this week, but the man from Portroe wasn’t just being coy.

Babs Keating has made six changes to his Tipperary team for Sunday's NHL Division 1B encounter with Kilkenny (Nowlan Park, throw-in 2.30pm).

A serious knee injury looks set to rule Diarmuid Fitzgerald out of the Tipperary hurlers' plans for the next two months.

Cork's experimentation with Diarmuid O'Sullivan at full-forward will continue this Sunday when they clash with Tipperary in the Waterford Crystal Cup final (Páirc Uí Chaoimh, throw-in 2pm).

Kilkenny 3-18 UCD 0-14

TIPPERARY 1-14 CORK 2-14

JIMMY DOYLE was the last Thurles Sarsfields man to captain Tipperary into a Munster final, back in 1965 and how Ger O’Grady would love to see that gap bridged with a similar result on Sunday.

Eoin Kelly was again to the fore as Tipperary got through to the Munster SHC final, holding Waterford at bay at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

PEOPLE can talk all they like about Ring, Mackey, Doyle, about Tull Considine and Philly Grimes, all the great ghosts of hurling past, but be in no doubt about this; yesterday in Semple Stadium we witnessed one of the greatest ever individual displays in the long history of the Munster championship.

Diarmuid Fitzgerald is set to line out in the Tipperary forwards for this Sunday's Munster hurling quarter-final against Limerick.

Kilkenny 3-20 Tipperary 2-11

Kilkenny 3-20 Tipperary 2-11

FOUR sides head to Semple Stadium, Thurles tomorrow with differing hopes and ambitions.

A QUINTET of All-Ireland winning stars, Donal Óg Cusack, Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, Tom Kenny and Timmy McCarthy return to the Cork team for Sunday's crucial Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park.

AFTER months of speculation, Ciaran McDonald has finally returned to the Mayo panel, but the enigmatic forward won’t be rushed back into wearing the county jersey in the foreseeable future.

HOSTS UCC are injury-free for today's Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final against UCD at the Mardyke (12.30pm start).

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT are yet to decide whether Eoin Kelly plays in today’s Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final against UCC.

DEFENDING champions Kilkenny will have their James Stephens contingent of Eoin Larkin, Jackie Tyrell, Donncha Cody and Eoin McCormack available when they travel to Semple Stadium, Thurles on Sunday.

THERE were two very different reactions in Limerick yesterday to this exciting opening round of the Allianz NHL.

WEXFORD veteran Adrian Fenlon looks set to retire from inter-county hurling. Manager Seamus Murphy confirmed yesterday that while the midfielder had not made contact, he believes that the Enniscorthy Rapparees man has called time on his Model career.

YET again, the whole country gets exercised about the continuing presence of a college team in the All-Ireland club championship, UCD in this instance.

UCD 0-15 Oulart-the-Ballagh 1-9

MUNSTER hurling coach Joe O’Leary says the southerners are determined to win the M Donnelly Interprovincial championship after their tough semi-final against Ulster last Sunday.