At a time of great volatility in the world, there is considerable comfort in the few reliables we encounter during this extended period of reflection in the GAA calendar.

John McGrath has painted a different picture of life in the Tipperary senior hurling camp to the bleak portrait painted by Kieran Bergin.

Clonmel Commercials 2-9 Killenaule 0-8... Two goals in the closing seven minutes swept favourites Clonmel Commercials to victory over Killenaule in a well-contested Tipperary senior football final at Semple Stadium, Thurles yesterday.

Clonmel Commercials needed late goals from Richie Gunne and Jamie Peters to land a 17th Tipperary Water county senior football championship title.

Owen Mulligan’s admission he didn’t deserve his third All-Ireland medal in 2008 isn’t the only example of a player reluctant to lay claim to an All-Ireland title.

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Tipperary will be without Kieran Bergin for their Munster and All-Ireland SHC defence.

Jackie Cahill looks at five ways in which Michael Ryan’s Tipperary are emulating Brian Cody’s Cats.

Kerry, who travel to Dr Hyde Park to face Roscommon in Division 1 of the Allianz FL tomorrow (2pm), have two changes in personnel, as well as a number of positional switches, following their loss to Monaghan.

Dual star Seamus Kennedy is primed to make his senior hurling debut for Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Cork at Semple Stadium.

John Fogarty sees Kilkenny and Tipperary renewing rivalries at the head of a competitive Division 1A

You know about Noel McGrath the cancer survivor. 

It was without doubt the game of the year. The picture of the Tipp players prostrate on the ground as Galway celebrated said it all. The Premier came up just short and Galway won because they stubbornly refused to be beaten.

I was impressed by how comfortable Tipperary were against Waterford in the Munster final. 

Maybe it’s because Kieran Bergin has seen and lived in another world to that of an inter-county hurler that makes him such an intriguing interviewee. 

The GAA.ie website’s entertaining Round The Square feature has asked a host of hurling and football stars what they’d change about themselves.

Kieran Bergin admits Tipperary have a history of reading too much into their successes but insists this year will be different.

After two days of such turnover and upheaval, John Fogarty looks on those who have left us and those who remain.

Victories are often glossed over while defeats are analysed intently. So how will Waterford react to their first loss of 2015?

Tactical innovation in hurling is heading towards a new level.

Ballina produced the shock of a busy weekend of Tipp hurling action with a 2-17 to 2-14 win over a very fancied Kilruane MacDonaghs in the North senior hurling championship at Puckane.

No player in the Tipperary set-up benefited more from their recent training trip to Spain than Michael Cahill.

Allianz HL Division 1 quarter-final

Tipperary only scored two second-half points, but advanced to their fourth Allianz Hurling League Division 1 semi-final in a row, after a six-point win over Offaly at O'Connor Park today.

FORMER star Eoin Kelly believes that Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea now possesses the strongest squad in the country.

Cork 4-21 Tipperary 2-28

Limerick IT v IT Carlow, LIT (A Kelly, Galway), 2pm

TIPPERARY’S Denis Maher has confirmed that he suffered a dislocated shoulder in Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A victory over Galway at Semple Stadium.

Tipperary 2-18 Galway 0-20: The vagaries of February hurling were as bracing in Semple Stadium yesterday as the breeze which swirled towards the Town End.

Tipperary put their Parnell Park woes behind them with a deserving victory here although it was a dubious Seamus Callanan goal that helped them on their way.

Allianz Hurling League Division 1A

Limerick IT 1-19 DIT 1-13: Limerick IT registered their second successive win as they overcame DIT in their Fitzgibbon Cup, Group D clash at the Parnells ground in Coolock.

O’Shea has voiced his opposition to the proposal of the Central Council workgroup that All-Ireland hurling final replays take place six days after the drawn game.