The game will mark the first for a Tipperary club in a senior Munster hurling final in seven years, facing a Ballygunner side in their third in a row, their fourth in five seasons.

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher admitted after this Munster Club SHC semi-final in Semple Stadium yesterday that the better team won, and he couldn’t have given a more honest appraisal.

Christian Brothers College, Cork put one foot in the quarter-finals of the Harty Cup when recording their second win in Group C.

There is something wonderful about a senior county final. Good weather day, bad weather day, any type of day. The whole occasion is so intimate.

Honours to Borris-Illeigh in this Tipperary SHC final - the 7,250 in attendance saw them defeat Kiladangan in a hard-fought encounter.

Seven points from Conor Kenny guided 14-man Borris-Ileigh to a Tipperary SHC showdown with Kiladangan after they dismissed Kilruane McDonaghs 0-16 to 0-15 in Semple Stadium.

Tipperary 4-15 Cork 1-14: Tipperary blitzed Cork for a crucial first win of the Munster MHC round-robin which keeps alive their hopes of progressing.

David Brent’s big-screen outing has received mixed reviews, with critics calling the Ricky Gervais movie both “excruciatingly brilliant” and a “slowly unfolding disappointment”.

JAY has been raised by his mother on a diet of ‘gods, monsters, lambs, virgins and fillums, fillums, fillums.’

Ireland striker Shane Long won’t get home for Christmas — but his friends and former hurling colleagues are flying in for the mother of all GAA reunions.

The Fields

THERE were few surprises in the opening round of the Tipperary senior hurling championship over the weekend.

THE scene for the knock-out stages of the North Tipperary SHC is almost set following the penultimate round of games at the weekend.

MIDLETON CBS maintain their unbeaten record in the Dr Harty Cup with an impressive 12-point triumph over Cashel Community School at Ballygiblin yesterday.

NORTH TIPPERARY club Lorrha/Dorrha are refusing to fulfil Sunday’s Seamus O’Riain Cup semi-final due to the unavailability of key players and the inability of opponents Kildangan to accommodate their request to change the timing of the game.

GER CUNNINGHAM has said that he would still be interested in managing the Cork hurlers if the opportunity arises.

AFTER an enthralling 90-minute saga, Tipperary eventually edged past Cork in last night’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC quarter-final at Semple Stadium.

KILKENNY became the first county in the history of the GAA to win four All-Ireland hurling titles in the one year when their Under-21 side beat Tipperary in a magnificent Bord Gais final at Croke Park yesterday.

Southend 1 West Ham 3

THE Irish arm of Hermes SoftLab — the Slovenian- based software engineering and IT services provider — proved to be the company’s best performing division last year, with a sales increase of 28% recorded.

Sunderland moved to third in the Coca-Cola Championship table after claiming the points in an unexpectedly tight match at Barnsley.

Southend boosted their hopes of Coca-Cola Championship survival and completed a miserable week for QPR with a 5-0 rout at Roots Hall.

Southend continued their remarkable Coca-Cola Championship revival as QPR crashed to an eighth straight away defeat at Roots Hall.

Steve Howard’s 12th goal of the season fired Derby six points clear at the top of the Coca-Cola Championship in a match which ended with both managers and a player being sent off.

Aaron Lennon dazzled on the flanks at White Hart Lane as Tottenham reached the fifth round of the FA Cup at the expense of Southend.

COCA-COLA League One promotion-chasers Bristol City secured a lucrative FA Cup trip to face Barclays Premiership side Middlesbrough after piling more pressure on Coventry boss Micky Adams with a 2-0 win third round replay win.

Coca-Cola League One promotion-chasers Bristol City secured a lucrative FA Cup trip to face Premiership side Middlesbrough after both won their third-round replays tonight.

JERMAIN DEFOE sent Tottenham into the semi-finals of the Carling Cup but the Premiership side were pushed all the way by Southend at White Hart Lane.

Southend's reward for knocking out Carling Cup holders Manchester United is a trip to Tottenham in the quarter-finals of the competition.

Irish striker Kevin Doyle has completed a remarkable year by being named in the 2006 Professional Footballers’ Association Football League Championship Team of the Year.

Lincoln 0 Southend 2 (after extra-time)

Southend 0 Charlton 2