This Munster club semi-final was a fine game of hurling between two good teams who battled throughout at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Thurles Sarsfields ran out 2-20 to 2-15 winners over Cork champions Sarsfields in this afternoon's AIB Munster Club SHC semi-final clash at Semple Stadium.

The similarities between the two Sarsfields battling for supremacy in tomorrow’s Munster Club SHC semi-final doesn’t end with a shared name.

It’s hard writing about this game. Having watched Thurles Sarsfields up close from my role with Kilmallock, we’ve tried to move on from the defeat.

Munster SHC: Kilmallock (Limerick) 0-15 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 2-12

Thurles Sarsfields 1-21 Drom & Inch 2-15

Sarsfields 2-22 Éire Óg Annacarty 1-13

Tipperary senior champions Drom & Inch remain on course to retain the Dan Breen Cup following an impressive 2-22 to 0-13 quarter-final win over west champions Clonoulty Rossmore at Semple Stadium.

Kerry manager John Meyler sensationally resigned his post after the Christy Ring champions crashed out of the competition with defeat to Kildare in Newbridge on Saturday (2-21 to 1-16).

Starting and finishing strongly, Kildare got off to a winning start in Division 2B of the Allianz Hurling League at Navan’s Pairc Tailteann.

COUNTY star Seamus Callanan capped a sensational display with the winning score from a 90m injury time free to give Drom-Inch a 2-16 to 1-18 over Burgess in Saturday’s Tipperary SHC fourth round tie at Templemore.

THURLES SARS had a much tougher battle than predicted in their Munster Club SHC semi-final at Kilmallock yesterday.

Sarsfields (Cork) 2-15 De La Salle (Waterford) 0-22, (after extra-time)

THURLES SARS retained their Tipperary senior hurling title in dull and damp Semple Stadium yesterday, capping off a superb year for their four Tipperary All-Ireland-winning stars, but only after a testing final few minutes against a young Clonoulty-Rossmore side that will surely come again.

THURLES SARSFIELDS dethroned Mid Tipperary senior hurling champions Drom Inch to claim their 41st divisional title at Templemore yesterday.

Newtownshandrum (Cork) 0-19 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-15

WE’RE in the dying embers of another long season but there’s still plenty to whet the appetite of hurling followers nationwide.

IT was a monkey on their backs for decades. Up to the early 1970’s, Thurles Sarsfields were a powerhouse in Tipperary hurling. In 1974 they won the championship for 28th time and the good times looked set to roll on.

THE Tipperary senior hurling championship final ended on a sour note in Semple Stadiumyesterday when Drom & Inch and Tipperary midfielder James Woodlock was stretchered off the field deep into injury time with a suspected fractured ankle.

Thurles Sarsfields 0-14 Drom & Inch 0-5

IT’S A long way from Balbriggan to Thurles, longer still if, like Michael Gleeson, you lived in one but pined for the other.

THE FAIRYTALE ended for Upperchurch Drombane in Semple Stadium yesterday, a season in which new ground was broken in the Tipperary SHC at both divisional and county level, and a tame ending it was.

ALL the excitement of the All-Ireland final put to bed, it’s back to serious club business in Kilkenny and Tipperary this weekend, the senior club championships in both counties at quarter-final stage with one exception.

THURLES, the largest town in north Tipperary with a population of just under 8,000; birthplace of the GAA and home of Thurles Sarsfields, holders of 29 Tipperary senior county titles and leaders on the roll of honour.

Tipperary manager Babs Keating has made three changes to his side for Sunday's mouth-watering NHL Division 1B clash with champions Kilkenny (Thurles, throw-in 2.30pm).

BRIAN MURPHY and Tom Kenny are to return to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz NHL clash with Waterford at Pairc Uí Rinn.

Thurles Sarsfields 2-15 Lixnaw 3-8

Thurles Sarsfields 1-17 Drom-Inch 0-15

Toomevara 3-19 Thurles Sarsfields 3-16

Thurles Sarsfields 3-17 Éire Óg, Nenagh 2-18

Mullinahone 2-10 Thurles Sarsfields 1-11

Tipperary make three changes for Sunday's National Hurling League quarter-final against Galway at Semple Stadium.

Tipperary make four changes for Saturday's National Hurling League clash with Offaly at Birr from the side which defeated Derry last week.

Tipperary make four changes for Sunday's NHL tie with Derry at Nenagh from the side which lost to Wexford last week.