A highly anticipated Cork County Board meeting last night allowed delegates to air grievances, but the only real development was the announcement of the composition of the committee to find the new county football manager.

Tipperary’s hunger to avoid a third straight defeat to Limerick in the championship manifested itself in a high-octane performance at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday. 

The Tipperary senior hurling team will have a new manager in 2016 after Michael Ryan was formally ratified at last night’s County Board meeting in Thurles to succeed Eamonn O’Shea.

Eamon O’Shea has a placement rather than a selection dilemma in the key full-back role

U14 Premier 1 football final: Beara 5-8 Éire Óg 3-7

A good game at Semple Stadium yesterday, a good win for Clare but what I found most surprising is it seemed that the Clare support outnumbered Tipperary. Why was that? It comes down to confidence.

“We’re down but we’re not out,” vowed defiant Tipperary manager Eamonn O’Shea after this latest league loss for his fledgling side.

It might be a bit early for team managers to be writing off the importance of the league but that was the case for Tipperary and Waterford in Thurles on Saturday evening.

Tipperary 2-13 Waterford 0-16

On top for so long, has the wheel finally turned for Kilkenny’s hurlers? All will be revealed by 9pm tonight. They established a hurling empire but great empires decay from within.

You don’t have to look back far to find out what you can expect from today’s National Hurling League final.

Tipperary have made five changes for Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1 semi-final clash with Dublin in Semple Stadium (throw-in 2pm).

The lessons a manager can learn from the league will help shape the decisions they make for the championship.

Waterford 1-14 Tipperary 0-16, Walsh Park

Dublin 1-20 Offaly 2-16

Briege Corkery was in New Zealand when she heard the news.

Conor Counihan is expected to continue as Cork football manager next season but is said to be considering changing his management team according to tonight's Evening Echo.

Ground hurling and urban development.

Former Wexford hurling boss Colm Bonnar says it would be pointless for anybody to give consideration to the Tipperary hurling manager’s job until Nicky English and Liam Sheedy are sounded out first.

Liam Sheedy, Eamonn O’Shea and Nicky English are among the leading names linked with the Tipperary manager’s position vacated by Declan Ryan on Saturday.

We can wonder just why Lar embraced his unusual assignment with such diligence

LAR CORBETT admits the Tipperary players may have allowed the pre-All-Ireland final hype in the county to seep into the camp before last September’s defeat to Kilkenny.

A GENERAL or a chairman? The number of empty bainisteoir bibs in the inter-county hurling world is unusually high at the moment – at the time of writing Antrim, Galway, Laois, Clare, Wexford, Cork, Waterford and Limerick have changed or are about to change. There are merry-go-rounds, and then there are merry-go-rounds.

TIPPERARY are on the lookout for a new physical coach following Cian O’Neill’s decision to step down from his backroom position after four seasons with the county.

AS treasurer Eamonn Buckley told delegates after the 2008 accounts showed almost a 50% jump from the previous year’s figures: “You won’t have success without cost.”

IT WAS off-hand comment and revelation, both at the same time.

BRENDAN Cummins says his appearances record at intercounty level is “not a patch” on Christy Ring’s.

IT’S been an interesting couple of weeks for Jimmy Barry-Murphy, and we’re not just referring to the fact that he celebrated his 57th birthday last Monday.

THERE are five top-flight senior intercounty hurling games left in the season — next weekend’s two quarter-finals, the two semi-finals and the final — and now is as good a time as any to take a quick look at what 2011 has brought so far.

THE impact sub — when and where did that term originate?

LAUDED by Tipperary’s All-Ireland-winning hurlers, Eamonn O’Shea is regarded as one of the top coaches in the game. He spoke to Michael Moynihan about the state of hurling.

FORMER Tipperary hurling selector Eamonn O’Shea has called for a director of hurling to be appointed in each county to safeguard the skills of the game.

HE may be entering his 13th season, which some might regard as being unlucky, but Kilkenny County Board had absolutely no misgivings when re-appointing Brian Cody as senior hurling manager last night.

THE departure of Liam Sheedy and his management team from Tipperary yesterday restarts one of those circular questions-and-answers you get in sport.

ALL-IRELAND-winning U21 coach Tommy Dunne has emerged as the early favourite to take over control of the Tipperary hurlers following the surprise resignation yesterday of Liam Sheedy and his All-Ireland-winning management team.

THERE were 21,110 people in Thurles on Saturday night for the All-Ireland U21 final and they came for a night of celebration.

TIPPERARY selector Eamonn O’Shea was happy with the performance of the men in blue and gold on Sunday, saying Tipp were “unbeatable” when they played well.

BEFORE anything else, just consider this brief sample of the fare yesterday.

THERE was a song sung by Tipperary substitute Pat Kerwick at the end of the game yesterday, The Galtee Mountain Boy – I think it was about the famous Tipperary revolutionary, Dan Breen.

ONWARDS and upwards!

IT DOESN’T take long for Liam Sheedy to identify the biggest lesson from his first season as Tipperary manager. It was the All-Ireland semi-final loss to Waterford and even the date is burned in the memory.

IN these final few days before the All-Ireland decider, all the talk is about the players from both teams. Henry, Eoin Kelly, Eoin Larkin, Lar Corbett – these are the stars, these are the guys you pay to see, and the pressure is on them to produce.

TIPPERARY midfielder James Woodlock paid tribute to the Premier County’s senior hurling management team yesterday following Tipp’s mauling of Limerick in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final.

AS I made my way from Croke Park yesterday I met a number of people, from different counties, and all were saying more or less the same thing – “shocking match, you won’t have much to write about.”