Limerick manager Billy Lee makes no attempt to downplay the importance of the Munster SFC win over Tipperary earlier this month.

Limerick produced the first shock of the Championship at Semple Stadium with a remarkable seven-point defeat of Tipperary.

A catalogue of missed chances allowed Wexford to hold on for their first championship win in two years, and end Limerick’s summer in the process.

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All-Star Paul Geaney and Cork veteran Rena Buckley have been recognised as Munster’s best senior footballer and ladies footballer in 2016, while Tipperary’s All-Ireland winning manager Michael Ryan has claimed the manager of the year award.

Limerick 2-13, Clare 1-13: A devastating mid-game stretch when they hit 2-8 with just a point in reply powered Limerick’s junior footballers to a Munster semi-final date with Kerry in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Champions Newcastle West beat Ballysteen 0-8 to 1-3 in the second round of Limerick senior football championship.

Champions Newcastle West had to find a late equaliser in their round one tie against Monaleen in the Limerick SFC.

Clonmel Commercials (Tipperary) 0-12 Newcastle West (Limerick) 1-7: As Stephen Kelly’s long-range free sailed between the Clonmel posts 55 minutes into this Munster Club SFC quarter-final, the linesman turned to Commercials manager Charlie McGeever and remarked their race was run.

Newcastle West 2-10 Dromcollogher- Broadford 0-9: The wait is over for Newcastle West after they lifted the Fr Casey Cup yesterday in Fitzgerald Park, Kilmallock. They ended a 23-year drought, emerging worthy winners of the Limerick SFC following agonising defeats in 2011 and 2012.

Champions Ballylanders repeated their 2015 Limerick SFC final victory over St Patrick’s to accelerate their title defence. They recorded a 0-13 to 0-10 win last night.

Four of the six knockout places in the Limerick SFC were decided over the weekend after round four of the group stages while the remaining two quarter-final places will be determined after the final round of games next month.

Champions Dromcollogher-Broadford remain the only side with a 100% record in the Limerick SFC after four rounds of group games.

Former London senior footballer Killian Phair marked his Limerick SFC debut with a crucial goal to maintain the unbeaten start of champions Dromcollogher-Broadford.

A goal in either half from Clare senior hurler Cathal McInerney powered the Banner into the Munster U21 FC semi-final against Cork in two weeks.

IT may not have been a footballing classic but few in Monaleen will complain after successfully defending their Limerick SFC crown at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

IT may not have been a footballing classic but few in Monaleen will complain after successfully defending their Limerick SFC crown at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

STEPHEN KELLY agrees it has been a dramatic transformation for his Newcastle West side en route to tomorrow’s final against Monaleen, (Gaelic Grounds, 3.30pm).

One of two Kildare teenagers killed in a crash last weekend will be laid to rest today.

NEWCASTLE WEST are the first side to book a spot in the semi-finals of the Limerick SFC.

Jamie Lee Curtis has paid tribute to her Hollywood legend father Tony Curtis who died on Wednesday.

Tony Curtis has died.

LIMERICK and Tipperary are both bidding to break the stranglehold that Cork and Kerry have exerted in the Munster minor football grade, when the semi-finals of the competition take place tonight.

A WELL-DRILLED, highly-skilled Limerick were far too strong for Waterford in this opening round of the Munster MFC in Kilmallock last night, qualifying for a semi-final meeting with Kerry and condemning the Déise boys to a backdoor meeting with Clare on Monday evening next.

CORK minor football boss Brian Cuthbert takes his side into championship action for the first time tonight when they face Clare in the Munster MFC quarter-final in Cusack Park at 6.30pm after experiencing mixed news on the injury front.

A FILE is being prepared for the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in relation to the stabbing to death of a young woman by her mother, an inquest was told yesterday.

A MOTHER who stabbed her daughter to death may face criminal charges, an inquest was told yesterday.

A GRIEVING father told mourners yesterday that his daughter would want people to forgive and pray for her mother.

It's somehow appropriate that with so many hi-tec blockbusters around for Christmas, this almost throw-back film should also be on offer.

Jamie Lee Curtis is the latest movie star considering retirement because she can't bear to give up her full-time role as a mother.

Hollywood action man Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to juggle his role as California Governor with a return to the big screen - he has reportedly agreed to star in two big money sequels.

Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed she underwent cosmetic surgery to halt the aging process and it was one of the worst decisions she ever made.

JANET Leigh, the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.

Janet Leigh, the beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller Psycho was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a hotel room shower, has died, aged 77.