A year ago, many retailers in Bandon were drying out their premises, following repeated flooding, but the message was sent out that the West Cork town remained open for business. A number of people took notice.

Former professional jockey Shay Barry saddled his first double as a handler at yesterday’s Waterford Foxhounds point-to-point fixture.

The devil is in the detail in the work of Macroom photographer Dennis Dinneen, whose images are being showcased in an exhibition at University College Cork.

TIPPERARY SHC FINAL:

And so we arrive at the replay fixture — at long, long last.

Ever since Lar Corbett broke through for a goal in a largely forgotten yet pivotal 2008 league semi-final in Nowlan Park to announce the Liam Sheedy era and the Tipperary revival, it’s as if there have been two kinds of games in the life of a Tipperary or Kilkenny hurler — those against their fiercest enemy and those against everyone else.

Eight years ago, Lar Corbett was wondering whether his best days were past him. His hamstrings were dodgy, his appearances in the blue and gold fleeting.

Sunday’s drawn All-Ireland final was among the greatest in living memory and of a greater intensity than last year’s contest between Cork and Clare.

What can I say. What can anyone say. What a privilege to be present. Tactics yesterday? What tactics?

Never has a last chance saloon looked as appealing as tomorrow’s All-Ireland final – potentially the last time we will see some of the game’s greatest exponents of the last 15 years in action.

Seamus Hickey has seen Tipperary and Kilkenny up close and personal this summer.

It is one of the great inconveniences hindering daily newspapers; the inability to postpone our All-Ireland final verdicts until Up For The Match is over.

August 19, 2012. July 5, 2014. Seminal dates in Tipperary hurling.

Good job Paul Grimley wasn’t in Langton’s the other night. He’d have been in grave danger of choking on his fillet steak.

Tipperary 5-25 Offaly 1-20

Westmeath man James Boyle delivered a cracker of a best man's speech at the wedding of his brother Lar recently - with some help from Michael Lyster, Pat Spillane and Colm O'Rourke.

Tipperary boss Eamon O’Shea is backing his players to "do themselves justice" in Saturday’s make-or-break All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Galway.

Thurles last Sunday. One new discovery. A vaccine. When the terrible pandemics look set to engulf us, someone always mixes a potion before apocalypse.

Tipperary hurling captain Brendan Maher has welcomed Lar Corbett’s return to club action in the Premier County, saying Corbett’s "presence" has given the entire panel a lift.

It was the week of the trojan horse. And what crept out in the dead of Wednesday night might have changed everything.

At long last, a visionary has arrived to remedy the glaring hole in our lives. Grant Best of BT Sport — the people who are taking on Sky Sports — is convinced we don’t see enough of the anonymous drones who play in the Premier League.

Tipperary chairman Sean Nugent has refused to be drawn on the reaction to Lar Corbett’s hamstring pull in Saturday’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier at Nowlan Park.

I want to start with a question — what is it about Limerick and fine sunny summer days, Munster championship, against big opposition?

Lar Corbett is winning his battle to be fit for Tipperary’s Munster semi-final against Limerick on June 9 — but Kilkenny are remaining surprisingly tight-lipped about their injury list ahead of facing Offaly on the same day.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy yesterday defended the Association’s disciplinary process but accepted ‘a loophole’ has allowed two high profile hurlers escape sanctions for their dismissals in the Allianz League Division One hurling final last week.

Lar Corbett was playing his cards close to his chest in Croke Park yesterday on the straight red card he and Kilkenny’s JJ Delaney received in the Allianz Hurling League final in Nowlan Park on Sunday last. A bruised chest too, as it turned out.

Video footage from behind the City End goal in Nowlan Park will be key to deciding whether Tipperary will contest Lar Corbett’s red card.

Irish Examiner columnist, Donal O'Grady, lists three things we have learned from this year's National Hurling League campaign.

On an extremely busy point-to-point weekend, there were nine races at yesterday’s Muskerry Foxhounds meeting at Dromahane and the well-supported Dr Patmassini showed his appreciation for the fast underfoot surface by readily putting his rivals to the sword in the winners of one.

The big thing question I have ahead of tomorrow’s National League hurling semi-finals is who wants to win the competition the most this year?

As unfair as it is, Lar Corbett is still seen, both inside and outside his county, as the personification of last year’s All-Ireland semi-final humiliation to Kilkenny.

Nicky English says Tipperary won’t win this year’s All-Ireland hurling title without the goals of a revitalised Lar Corbett.

Mr Wolf (Harvey Keitel): “You see that, young lady? Respect. Respect for one’s elders shows character.”

Tipperary hurling legend Jimmy Doyle has questioned whether Lar Corbett has learned from his bizarre performance in last year’s heavy All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny

Thurles Sarsfield 1-14 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-20

He’s been a part of two All-Ireland winning teams but rumours abounded last night that Lar Corbett was part of a two-man team that scooped the €10.6m top prize in the lottery.

Hurling superstar Lar Corbett and his new wife jet off to Rome today on honeymoon.

New Tipperary senior hurling manager Eamon O’Shea has predicted Lar Corbett will rediscover his best form in the blue and gold shirt in 2013.

Tipperary GAA chiefs are bracing themselves for another tough financial statement when 2012 figures are revealed at annual convention on December 17.

Whilst talking to IGB chairman Phil Meaney, prior to the start of the Greyhound Forum at Curraheen Park just a couple of months ago, I suggested that the time when the IGB would no longer need a presence on RTÉ’s Aertel service was not far away, but that the time had not yet arrived.

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-21 De La Salle (Waterford) 1-16