When Clare and Limerick face off in the Gaelic Grounds tomorrow it’s another instalment in a long rivalry.

Tom Morrissey doesn’t blanch at the question.

The collaboration between Aidan Coffey and the late Séamus Creagh was founded in Cork and survived for many years over long distances, writes Pet O’Connell

Club GAA has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons.

The Limerick academy I was involved with for three years was about fostering a culture of doing things the right way — and not necessarily all about winning. Some people in the county had issues with me over that but I never had anyone say a single negative thing to my face, writes Anthony Daly

When first asked to write a column for this paper, the esteemed sports editor gave me three guidelines: Write clearly; be informative; and stay impartial, writes Jack Anderson 

At the end of the match yesterday, I shook hands with Dave Punch, the former Limerick hurler, who works for RTÉ. He asked me if I saw the attendance. I did, I said — 71,000. Dave corrected me. ‘No, Dalo, 71,073.’

At the end of the match yesterday, I shook hands with Dave Punch, the former Limerick hurler, who works for RTÉ. He asked me if I saw the attendance. I did, I said — 71,000. Dave corrected me. ‘No, Dalo, 71,073.’ 

When I was with the Limerick underage academy, and the Limerick minors, my boss Joe McKenna had a couple of hard and fast rules, one of which was very simple — never play Cork in a challenge game. 

I got talking to Joe McKenna in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday shortly after the final whistle. Joe was naturally on a high, as was the whole Limerick crowd, a good share of whom were down on the pitch basking in the warm afterglow of such an impressive win, writes Anthony Daly.

While most of the talk around the new-look hurling championship has been how it will severely test the depth and durability of each panel, Walsh Park’s hosting of Kilkenny at the weekend brought to light how it’ll test the suitability of certain provincial grounds as well.

I’ve said this numerous times already in relation to Limerick but they need to be patient now, writes Anthony Daly.

It’s only been a week since he officially stepped down from his director of hurling post with Limerick’s underage academy, but Anthony Daly is never short of suitors and he’s already lending his weight to another cause.

Anthony Daly has confirmed that he is stepping down from his Director of coaching role at the Limerick underage hurling academy.

A court has heard how when gardaí arrived at a house in Limerick to execute a warrant for an Irish man, wanted in England for importing drugs worth over €1.4m they found him at his kitchen table preparing a separate massive drugs consignment.

Clare have only won one game in Munster since 2008. It hasn’t been good enough, writes Anthony Daly.

Between 1971 and ‘80, Glen Rovers, St Finbarr’s and Blackrock held near exclusive ownership of the Munster Club SHC title.

Had Pat Donnelly not been on the bench the last time a Limerick minor hurler lifted the Irish Press Cup, he probably wouldn’t be standing on the sideline tomorrow.

Limerick minor hurling manager Pat Donnelly says the county’s appearance in a fourth consecutive Munster minor final is proof positive that the underage academy established back in 2011 is working.

Richie Bennis contends the roar that greeted the Limerick players as they ran out for the 2007 All-Ireland final spooked them.

It’s funny how the first shots of a revolution are often fired when a people are on their knees. 

Yesterday in Thurles was my first time involved in a Munster final since I captained Clare in the 1999 decider against Cork.

“It is 43 years now and God knows we’ve waited long enough,” says Frank Keenan, his tone suggesting a wearing thin of patience.

Seamus Hickey has called for Limerick to put a personal development plan in place for each of their up-and-coming players so the county can maximise the talent coming through the underage ranks.

MUNSTER MHC FINAL:

It says something about the stature and skill of the man that we’re talking more about how football will miss Colm Cooper this year than Kerry will miss him.

Centre-back Wayne McNamara is one of the most experienced players on the Limerick team to face Clare in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final in Croke Park tomorrow, a panel member since 2007. That year, managed by Richie Bennis, Limerick reached the final but were overwhelmed by a whirlwind Kilkenny start and left to save face – which they did – in the following 60 minutes.

Mike O’Riordan may be the busiest man in Limerick this week, but as Michael Moynihan discovered, he isn’t complaining for a second.

Were Cork schools always strong in Munster colleges competitions? How accurate is this perception?

YOU can watch a tape of the 1973 All-Ireland hurling final celebrations on YouTube.

THE statue in O’Connell Street may be only a matter of time if the enthusiasm on Saturday evening is any indication.

THE news yesterday that star forward Andrew O’Shaughnessy, not yet 27, has quit inter-county hurling has come as a blow in Limerick, catching his inter-county team-mates — current and former — completely by surprise.

EX-LIMERICK captain TJ Ryan last night launched a fierce defence of Limerick’s embattled hurlers, insisting they’re not unmanageable. However, the Garryspillane man said there’s only one resolution to the crippling dispute – Justin McCarthy’s resignation.

FORMER Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis has insisted Justin McCarthy’s style of coaching “doesn’t suit” the county’s needs.

Seán doesn’t believe in Grand National-type training, it’s all hurling, everything with the ball, and it paid off

A TRANSFORMATION bordering on the miraculous by South Liberties in the second half of an exciting Munster Club IHC final at the Mallow GAA complex yesterday powered them past Cork champions Douglas.

TOMORROW’S Munster IHC Club final in Mallow pits two teams, Douglas and South Liberties, coming against each other from two different backgrounds.

WE HAD the Haka in Croke Park on Saturday as more history was made at Jones Road with the arrival of the famous All Blacks. Unfortunately, I had to miss the game as I was honouring a commitment to attend a very special function in the Hospital Herbertstown club in Limerick.

LEARNING from your own mistakes is a sure — if often slow and painful — way of progressing in life; learning from the mistakes of others, learning from the experience of others, is smarter, surer, faster.

Richie Bennis' two-year term as Limerick senior hurling manager is officially overafter the Patrickswell clubman was axed by the Limerick Co Board.

Limerick hurling manager Richie Bennis has hit out strongly at a group of players whom he says "broke their hearts in training and then went drinking".