In the aftermath of their 2014 All-Ireland final loss to Kilkenny, Eamon O’Shea defiantly declared that “This team (Tipp) will always have hope, they have great character, and the nucleus of this team will go on in the future and win All-Irelands.”

The GAA’s HawkEye review official Dickie Murphy has confirmed the score detection technology employee on duty for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC final twice analysed Brian Hogan’s catch before announcing the sliotar had passed his crossbar.

Trust me when I say this — it’s every referee’s worst nightmare to send a player off in an All-Ireland final.

A final for the annals but certainly not for the ages.

A look back at the magical moments from this year.

Tipperary’s 28th All-Ireland title came easier than expected as Richie Hogan’s first-half sending off helped to pave the way for their third Championship crown this decade.

In the Father Ted episode where a bomb was planted on Dougal’s milk float, two fellow priests and a tense Ted were involved in a major planning session.

Limerick’s All-Ireland winner Kyle Hayes on his powerful hands and the hurleys he stores in the shed on the family farm

Former Kilkenny hurler Brian Hogan said that talk of hurling tactics is “blown out of all proportion” and echoed Brian Cody’s sentiments that workrate and determination are much more valuable attributes in players.

A car dealer alleged to be giving the Revenue the "runaround" in its efforts to recover under a €4.95m tax judgment obtained ten years ago has received a two month suspended sentence for civil contempt.

The revamped hurling championship has given us many wondrous memories this last 13 months but the sight of Wexford and Kilkenny supporters jiving away together to the tune of 'Dancing at the Crossroads' may well be the most bizarre.

It was the first time that the Cats were beaten in the Championship on home soil since 1949.

In his 21 seasons as Kilkenny manager, Brian Cody is not sure if there has ever been a more even and finely balanced hurling championship.

The scoreline suggests a rip-roaring contest but that is a false reading.

Springtime may not have landed in Nowlan Park quite yet, given the chill in the Kilkenny venue yesterday, but the virtues and habits of the men in the striped jerseys remain evergreen.

Any time I’m on the road on a Saturday evening, I always tune into Céilí House, one of RTÉ Radio’s most popular programmes of traditional Irish music and song, writes Anthony Daly.

Last years’ beaten Fitzgibbon Cup finalists DCU Dóchas Éireann had to grind out a two-point victory over a battling home side at Carriganore, Waterford.

What an amazing spectacle in Thurles yesterday and James McGrath can believe he contributed to it, writes Brian Gavin.

Brian Cody was offering John Kiely a few congratulatory words when an elderly gentleman cut in and planted a sizeable kiss on the latter’s cheek.

The Twitterati, and numerous other Twitter bandits, were laying it into Jackie Tyrrell and I hot and heavy last Sunday night. They weren’t happy with our comparative analysis between the Munster and Leinster finals. A few of them told us to go away and watch the World Cup, that we might know more about Colombia and Japan than Cork and Clare.

Kilkenny 0-22 Wexford 1-18

Kilkenny 2-19 Offaly 1-13: It told a tale of the first hour of this game that the loudest cheer in Nowlan Park came from the little pocket of Murray State University visitors.

Our writers analyse the weekend’s GAA talking points...

Kilkenny 2-23 Tipperary 2-17: A result like this would read as par for the course were it not for some supposedly extenuating circumstances.

After all the new money and massive entertainment on show this spring, the final now is an old-money showdown between Kilkenny and Tipp, writes Anthony Daly

Relax. We won’t say ‘they haven’t gone away’. We won’t inflict ‘write Kilkenny off at your peril’. We promise to stay away from talk of nine lives.

A sixth Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup title for University of Limerick at Mallow today following victory over first-time finalists Dublin City University.

Fitzgibbon Cup hurlers from Dublin, Kilkenny, Limerick, and Waterford will not be asked to play two games in the space of 24 hours this weekend.

I was driving home from an underage coaching day in Kilmacud Crokes in Dublin last Saturday when a friend texted me. “Some Walsh Cup final in Nowlan Park,” he said. “It sounds like an epic.”

A former Cork city-centre hotel, with a 207-year pedigree on St Patrick’s St, is to be partly demolished and redeveloped for high-end shops use, possibly with an appeal to the likes of Zara.

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

Jondol Furniture directors, John and Dolores Quinn, have been adjudicated bankrupts by Ms Justice Marie Baker, in the High Court, on foot of a petition by the Revenue Commissioners.

Another Moffett win, but, this time, it was the younger sibling, Josh: he won the Enniskillen-based Trailer Parts and Spares Lakeland Forest Rally, the penultimate round of the Valvoline Irish Forest Rally Championship and a round of the Northern Ireland Rally series.

Kilkenny 0-21 Dublin 0-16: The pain of 2016 was well and truly forgotten about as the Kilkenny under-21 hurlers started their 2017 campaign in winning style.

Youth took its chance and made it count as a young Kilkenny side made a winning start to the county’s Walsh Cup campaign.

A Dublin couple have not paid a penny off the €1.2m debt on their Mount Merrion home for the past two years, the Circuit Civil Court has heard.

An Irish bank has failed in an international search to track down Ian Botham’s daughter-in-law — Lisa Harrison-Botham — so it can serve her with court proceedings to repossess a house she shared with her former boyfriend, Mark Kershaw.

Dublin 2-18 Kilkenny 1-19: A dominant extra-time performance saw Dublin claim victory over holders Kilkenny in Saturday’s enthralling Electric Ireland Leinster MHC semi-final at Parnell Park.

A CSX freight train heading to North Carolina derailed near a Metro stop in Washington DC today, sending 14 cars off the tracks and spilling hazardous material, officials said.

Ian Reilly’s two runners put down the early markers in the opening round of the Greyhound & Petworld Supersprint, Quietly doing so in the best possible fashion – with a record-breaking run in the very first heat.

A former president of the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) has urged the organisation’s entire executive board to resign immediately.