Limerick GAA bosses are worried hurling manager John Allen will step down just after the county hurlers have had their best season in almost two decades.

With yet another Fitzgibbon Cup claimed, one might imagine that UCC GAA development officer John Grainger is entitled to time off, but his is a job that never ends.

With yet another Fitzgibbon Cup claimed, one might imagine that UCC GAA development officer John Grainger is entitled to time off, but his is a job that never ends.

UCC 2-17 Mary Immaculate College, Limerick 2-12

UCC 2-17 Mary Immaculate College 2-12

Champions UCC are within an hour of retaining their Fitzgibbon Cup title after a comprehensive defeat of UCD in sun-splashed Carnmore yesterday, a powerful second half enough to defeat Nicky English’s charges.

Mary Immaculate, Limerick 1-13 UCC 1-13

CORK football legend Billy Morgan has been appointed a manager of UCC’s Sigerson Cup team for the coming season, as the college aims to end a 14-year spell without success in the premier third-level football competition.

Imokilly 2-19 Avondhu 2-13

ERIN’S OWN collected the AIB Kilmacud Crokes Hurling Sevens crown at Glenalbyn on Saturday, defeating a powerful Portumna (Galway) outfit in a tightly-contested final.

Cork club Erin's Own collected the AIB Kilmacud Crokes Hurling Sevens crown at Glenalbyn last night, beating Portumna of Galway in a tightly-contested final.

Former All-Star Eddie Enright will be absent from the Tipperary senior hurling panel this season due to work commitments.

Newtownshandrum 1-16 Thurles Sarsfields 0-13

Thurles Sarsfields 2-15 Lixnaw 3-8

Thurles Sarsfields 1-17 Drom-Inch 2-14

Galway 2-20 Tipperary 2-18

Galway staged a dramatic Croke Park comeback, hitting a goal and six points in the final 13 minutes of the first of today's All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals, to edge out Tipperary and book their place in the last four.

At 5.15pm, there's a distinct chance that all four semi-final spots in this year's All-Ireland hurling championship could be occupied by Munster counties.

THE whiff of cordite may have evaporated from this clash compared to the encounters of the late eighties, but Galway-Tipperary tomorrow promises more for the neutral than the game that follows it.

THE good news for Tipperary fans in the run-up to Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling quarter-final meeting with Galway is the return to training of stalwarts such as Eddie Enright and Seamus Butler, and the increasing fitness of the Ger ‘Redser’ O’Grady and John Carroll.

AMONG the hurling purists, Thomas Dunne would be regarded as one of the greatest exponents of the modern game, an artist with an array of skills and a warm personality which mirrors his sportsmanship.

2001 All-Star Eddie Enright has earned a recall to the Tipperary hurling panel after a year out of inter-county action.

U21 star Finian Hanley and former victorious captain Padraig Joyce have been given starting places in the Galway side to meet Mayo in the Bank of Ireland Connacht SFC final at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

Derry forward Paul Bradley has lost his race to be fit in time for Sunday's Ulster SFC semi-final clash with Armagh.

Today's glamour clash in Division 1B features the visit of Limerick to Páirc Uí Chaoimh to take on the might of All-Ireland champions Cork.

Tipperary manager Ken Hogan has named five newcomers for Sunday's opening National Hurling League clash against Down in Thurles.

CORK will be without five of their All-Ireland-winning starting fifteen - Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, John Gardiner, Kieran Murphy and Brian Corcoran - for their opening Allianz National Hurling League game against Limerick at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday.

TIPPERARY'S U21 hurlers will be looking to lift the air of deepening gloom that has enveloped the county in recent years by capturing their first title at this grade in almost a decade, at Nowlan Park tomorrow.

Cork and Tipperary renew rivalries in the Guinness All-Ireland hurling championship qualifiers at

THOSE who devised the All-Ireland qualifier system must be licking their lips and clapping themselves on the back today.

Conor Gleeson has beaten Mark O'Leary to the punch and won a recall to the Tipperary team to meet Cork in tomorrow's All-Ireland hurling qualifier in Killarney.

Tipperary make one change in their team to play Cork in the All-Ireland SHC qualifier at Killarney on Saturday from the side which defeated Limerick in the first round.

THE Cork selectors ended speculation of a major shake-up by making just one change in personnel from the team that lost to Waterford in the Munster final for Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier with Tipperary in Killarney.

Tipperary hurling star Eddie Enright will be out of action for up to two months.

CORK’S disappointment at losing their Munster SHC title will be shortlived.

Waterford 4-10 Tipperary 3-12

Tipperary 3-16 Waterford 1-22

Tipperary 3-16 Waterford 1-22

CLARE, pipped at the post by Limerick last weekend, are taking nothing for granted in their Allianz National Hurling League bid for survival against out-of-the-reckoning Cork at Páirc Uí Rinn tomorrow night.

The Tipperary Senior Hurling team to play Waterford in Thurles on Sunday at 3:30pm shows one change from the side which started against Galway.

Tipperary 2-15 Galway 2-13

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN has been given the all-clear to play with Cork in Sunday’s Allianz National Hurling League clash with Galway at Pearse Stadium.

Tipperary hurler Philly Maher will make his keenly awaited return to the county's ranks against Clare in the second phase of the National League on Sunday.