Douglas against Carrigaline in the Rebel Óg Carrigaline Court Hotel sponsored Premier 1 Under 14 Football Championship final at Delany’s.

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

While the fallout from Tipperary’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny continues to reverberate, there were some green shoots for Premier hurling fans with victory in the Carrigdhoun Munster Inter-county U15 competition on Saturday.

June 16, 2002 should have been a memorable date for Donegal supporters.

“ONE long, beautiful, bountiful labour of love” — the words of retired sports journalist Michael Ellard at a function in Cork yesterday, summing a career extending over four decades with the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo.

POSITIVITY oozes through Noel Connors’ pores as quickly as it courses through his veins. Why shouldn’t it? It’s an attitude that’s earned him a Munster title as well as an All Star and two nominations in his first two full seasons playing senior hurling with Waterford.

THE Munster Council should assume complete control of its championship fixtures schedule to ensure the glamour provincial senior hurling final is not played again on a Saturday evening.

MUNSTER Council PRO Jim Forbes has withdrawn from the race to be the province’s next treasurer in order to devote time to his role as chairman of the Central Region of Cork’s new under-age structure Coiste na nÓg.

MUNSTER Council officials will consider switching the McGrath Cup final to Saturday, January 29 to avoid a clash with the rescheduled provincial club SFC final between Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes.

MUNSTER Council PRO Jim Forbes has forecast a significant drop in the total expenditure by clubs and counties in the province on physical development projects over the next few years.

THE Munster Club SFC final between Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes will not be played until 2011, provincial chiefs confirmed last night.

MUNSTER Council officials are confident tomorrow’s showpiece club senior football decider will go ahead despite the need for second pitch inspection of the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick today.

MUNSTER GAA officials admit they may be forced to complete their club championship schedule in 2011 if weather conditions continue to deteriorate.

MUNSTER Council GAA chiefs will inspect two pitches this morning ahead of Sunday’s Munster club SFC final between Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes.

MUNSTER GAA chiefs have placed Mallow on standby if the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick cannot host Sunday’s Club senior football final.

MUNSTER Council chiefs have moved to prevent a repeat of the controversy surrounding this year’s provincial senior hurling decider when Waterford officials offered home advantage to their opponents.

CROKE PARK has defended the timing of Saturday’s replayed Munster final on the basis that it would have been counter-productive to play the Cork-Waterford fixture at the same time as high-profile matches elsewhere.

MUNSTER COUNCIL chiefs wanted to play their provincial senior hurling final replay between Cork and Waterford on Sunday afternoon but a request to do so was rejected by Croke Park.

THE strained relationship between Waterford County Board and the Munster Council continues to worsen, after Déise delegates slammed the tickets they received for last Sunday’s provincial hurling final.

MUNSTER Council chiefs are not alarmed by the poor turnout at yesterday’s provincial senior hurling semi-final between Clare and Waterford at Semple Stadium.

SUNDAY’S Munster SFC semi-final replay between Cork and Kerry will be shown live on RTÉ after provincial chiefs acceded to a Croke Park request for a 2pm start.

MUNSTER Council chiefs have opted to replay the senior football championship semi-final between Cork and Kerry on Sunday in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (3.30pm) to avoid a repeat of the crowd delays which marred the corresponding fixture last year.

Next month's Munster Senior Hurling Championship final will take place at Semple Stadium in Thurles, if both Cork and Waterford make it through the semi-final stage.

MUNSTER Council officials last night moved to allay Waterford concerns that a possible provincial hurling decider against Cork next month will be the start of a home and away agreement between the two counties.

THE GAA’s Munster Council last night insisted that the ‘correct decision’ was made in delaying the throw-in of yesterday’s Munster SHC quarter-final between Cork and Tipperary in Páirc Uí Chaoimh due to the televised coverage of the Ulster SFC tie between Donegal and Down running late.

The Gaelic Writers Association (GWA) honoured legendary players and journalists at their annual awards dinner held at the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel last night.

IRISH sporting organisations are cautiously optimistic regarding their fixtures for the next week as the cold snap begins to ease.

SPORTING fixture lists across the country for this weekend have been decimated by the worsening weather conditions.

THE GAA’s weekend fixture schedule is set to be decimated by the weather.

A SENIOR GAA official has called for inter-county squads to be reduced to a maximum of 25 players in an effort to boost club championships around the country.

MUNSTER COUNCIL PRO Jim Forbes remains hopeful that they will be able to maintain current levels of development funding, after figures released yesterday showed that €22.6 million was spent on GAA physical development by clubs and counties across the province over the past 12 months, with €2.37m of that figure stemming from grants distributed by the Munster Council.

THE Munster Council last night confirmed they will investigate unruly scenes which marred Sunday’s provincial club junior football championship semi-final at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

The thorny issue of club fixtures and their place in the GAA calendar will be amongst the topics up for discussion at the Munster Council’s first ‘Club Day’ in the INEC, Killarney on Saturday.

THE thorny issue of club fixtures and their place in the GAA calendar will be amongst the topics up for discussion at the Munster Council’s first ‘Club Day’ in the INEC, Killarney on Saturday.

MUNSTER Council GAA chiefs last night insisted that tonight’s provincial U21 hurling decider could not be played at a neutral venue, due to a home and away agreement entered into by all counties this year for games outside of senior level.

THE TWO games I saw this weekend – Tullamore on Saturday and Tipperary against Clare in Limerick yesterday – have restored my faith in hurling.

The Munster Council has denied claims the delay to the starting time of the Cork-Kerry replay last Saturday was down to organisational problems and the decision not to push terrace ticket sales in advance.

MUNSTER COUNCIL chiefsa re to review match day pro-cedures following controversial claims made by Waterford hurling boss Davy Fitzgerald in the aftermath of Sunday’s provincial semi-final draw with Limerick.

GAA chiefs have again blamed late arrivals for what fans described as dangerous crowd-control issues at Páirc Uí Chaoimh at the weekend.

MUNSTER GAA officials are looking at a potential €1m boost to badly-dented coffers after yesterday’s Munster SHC semi-final draw in Thurles.

MUNSTER Council chiefs have undertaken a major ticket push ahead of Sunday’s senior hurling championship opener between Tipperary and Cork (Semple Stadium, 4pm, RTÉ Two).

HANDS off the Munster Hurling Championship: that was the message provincial chairman Jimmy O’Gorman sent out loud and clear from his home town yesterday at the launch of the Munster Championships in Lismore Castle.