Clonmel Commercials’ bid for a second Munster title is very much on track after a late, late show advanced them to another provincial day out against Nemo Rangers for a repeat of the 2015 decider that the Premier County kingpins won with virtually the last kick of the ball.

Clonmel Commercials 2-9 Killenaule 0-8... Two goals in the closing seven minutes swept favourites Clonmel Commercials to victory over Killenaule in a well-contested Tipperary senior football final at Semple Stadium, Thurles yesterday.

Clonmel Commercials needed late goals from Richie Gunne and Jamie Peters to land a 17th Tipperary Water county senior football championship title.

GARDA College braved the elements to cruise past Cork IT in this afternoon’s Sigerson Cup preliminary round fixture.

Tipperary manager Liam Kearns has expressed disappointment with the Premier County’s failure to secure two All-Star awards.

Former Tipperary star Declan Browne has stressed the need for current players to make a concrete decision on their availability to the county in 2017 as soon as possible.

If you told Liam Kearns last November when he took on the job of Tipperary manager that he’d guide the county to a first All-Ireland semi-final since 1935 during his maiden season at the helm, he’d probably have laughed at you.

You wouldn’t normally associate Clare’s Cratloe Woods with the sun-soaked Costa del Sol but as David Moriarty watched the Tipperary footballers go through their paces, he was filled with a renewed sense of hope.

You’d have been hard pressed to envisage a day like this when Tipp were trudging their way through Division 3 of the Allianz Football League.

The ripples caused by Tipperary’s qualification for their first All-Ireland quarter-final have been large but on the Breffni Park pitch on Saturday, it felt like an intimate affair.

Liam Kearns admits it is easier to list those who aren’t available as opposed to those who are.

Ballyboden St Endas were made to bend low to secure a first All-Ireland final spot that looked beyond them for so much of the second half of normal time.

Jason Lonergan of Clonmel Commercials believes that a win over Tir Chonaill Gaels in the Club All-Ireland senior quarter-final on Sunday would be a huge statement for Tipperary football and set the standard for future generations.

“Once an Olympian, always an Olympian.”

Dressing Rooms No 1 and No 2 are only feet apart at Mallow GAA’s stately Carrigoon complex, but the swing of a left foot yesterday daubed one in black and green despair, and turned the other into forever folk heroes in Tipperary.

It took Castlehaven, and many observers, by surprise when Nemo Rangers operated a sweeper in the drawn Cork final last month. Indeed Haven’s selector James McCarthy made a point of mentioning it after the game.

Clonmel Commercials 1-13 St Joseph’s Miltown-Malbay 0-3, Clonmel

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.

Clonmel Commercials 1-12 Moyle Rovers 3-5: Hot favourites Clonmel Commercials had to draw on all their reserves of self-belief to regain the Tipperary SFC title after a three-year gap when defeating neighbours Moyle Rovers in a thriller at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Former All Star Eoin Kelly was back in action for Mullinahone after an extended lay-off, and helped guide them to a 1-21 to 2-16 win over Ballingarry in an exciting South Tipperary SHC semi-final at Fethard.

As one of the few visible inter-county managers on Twitter (plenty, we know, skulk in the shadows), there is opportunity to gain a little more insight into Peter Creedon’s thinking.

Tipperary 1-24 Waterford 0-5: Where Tipperary provided further grounds for optimism here with the vitality and confidence of their display, Waterford’s total ineptitude raised the question of whether they remain fit to dine at championship’s top table.

Seán Barron and Michael O’Halloran are the two Waterford debutants for Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium (3.30pm).

Not for the first time this decade, Tipperary are setting themselves up to be the feelgood story of the football season.

Tipperary showed tremendous composure to finish strongly and book their place in a first ever Eirgrid All-Ireland U21FC final.

The mini-truck carrying close to 30 Tipperary U21 footballers edged through the town of Templemore close to midnight.

TIPPERARY 1-15 CORK 3-8: Another giant step forward in the development of Tipperary football as Tommy Toomey’s young charges foiled Cork’s five-in-a-row bid to secure the county’s second Munster U21 title.

A few key tussles could swing what should be a finely-balanced decider.

Four players have walked out of the Tyrone squad in frustration at a lack of game time, in the latest sign of unrest in the Red Hand camp.

Tipperary 0-15 Clare 0-07: Tommy Toomey conceded his Tipperary U21 footballers will have to improve considerably to shock Cork in the EirGrid provincial decider.

Nenagh Éire Óg qualified for their first Tipperary SHC final since 2006 after a convincing semi-final replay win over Kildangan at Semple Stadium yesterday (1-17 to 0-12).

Tipperary’s senior footballers will be without influential pair Brian Fox and Michael Quinlivan for next Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Kerry in Killarney.

Cork 1-17 Tipperary 0-9