Cork 1-17 Tipperary 0-9 

Before the door of Dressing Room No 3 underneath Semple Stadium’s Old Stand closed towards us, the first four of Liam Kearns’ words to his numbed Tipperary players seeped out.

Neither Cork nor Tipperary proposed making their Munster SFC semi-final part of a triple-header at Semple Stadium this Sunday, Munster GAA chiefs insist.

Neither Cork nor Tipperary proposed making their Munster SFC semi-final part of a triple-header at Semple Stadium this Sunday, Munster GAA chiefs insist.

Michael Quinlivan says back-to-back promotions for Tipperary might have been “a step too soon” and is glad they’re staying in Division Two for another season.

It was “madness” to think the Allianz Hurling League could be successfully run off across nine weekends, according to Tipperary chairman John Devane.

Have no doubt, this was a huge win for Kieran McGeeney and his troops, writes Declan Browne.

Embattled Cork have far more to lose than their opponents in tomorrow’s Munster semi-final, according to Peter Lambert.

Cathal Barrett has been dropped from the Tipperary panel. The All-Star defender, who is currently recovering from a knee injury, is believed to have been omitted for a disciplinary breach.

One massive performance and victory against Tipp will guarantee Peadar Healy’s charges a place in the last 12 of the All-Ireland series.

Cork’s 2017 season opened in promising fashion last night as an experimental outfit eased past the challenge of Tipperary.

Managers were largely unimpressed by the mark after its opening weekend as a permanent rule in inter-county football.

John Evans has called on the GPA to intervene in Tipperary to end the “nonsense of Steven O’Brien sitting on his backside”.

Tipperary GAA chiefs have been urged to nail down Liam Kearns as the county’s senior football team manager for 2017 — amid loose speculation that his native Kerry could make an approach for his services.

Tipperary’s footballers may be losing captain Peter Acheson to Dubai but Conor Sweeney believes their achievements this summer can act as a magnet for some of those lost to the panel this season.

They’re an obstinate bunch, Tipperary football folk. Small in number but big in pretty much everything else — it took three pleas from the PA announcer in Croke Park to convince them to leave the stadium long after the players had retired to their dressing room.

Tipperary football chairman Joe Hannigan, who claimed the county were aiming to win an All-Ireland senior title by 2020, has revealed the inspiration behind the goal.

The ripples caused by Tipperary’s qualification for their first All-Ireland quarter-final have been large but on the Breffni Park pitch on Saturday, it felt like an intimate affair.

Conor Sweeney was the hero for Tipperary in Cavan as they mounted a late fightback to reach their first All-Ireland quarter-final.

Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice reckons Tipperary are a stronger and more “unified” force for having lost so many big-name players during the off-season.

Tipperary 1-15 Waterford 1-7: Tipperary’s football pulse, having slowed somewhat during a turbulent and disruptive spring, quickened a beat in Dungarvan yesterday.

Clare 1-10 Tipperary 1-9: A late goal by local star Kieran Malone earned Clare victory over Tipperary in the opening round of the McGrath Cup yesterday.

With Kerry, Donegal and Mayo all winning last weekend and Dublin likely to do likewise next weekend, the cosy consensus is that the Big Four of last year’s championship are going to have it all to themselves again this year.

All-Ireland winning club football coach Tony McEntee has given a sobering summary of Gaelic football, suggesting that players at all ages and grades aren’t "technically competent".

Sigerson Cup Quarter-Final: IT Carlow 0-11 UL 0-10: IT Carlow withstood a barrage of injury-time UL attacks and, indeed, a half-hour stoppage in proceedings to secure a first Sigerson Cup semi-final appearance.

Progression to the McGrath Cup semi-final was the last item on James O’Donoghue’s agenda as he readied himself underneath the Mick Mackey Stand on Sunday afternoon.

Where Donie Buckley goes, improvement follows. And when his native Kerry didn’t involve him in a new management team, Mayo’s James Horan was quick to step in and quick to reap rewards

The statistics are stark.

LIMERICK’S new football manager Maurice Horan has countered any suggestions that describe his team as an ageing side.

LIMERICK GAA chiefs are set to appoint Mayo native Maurice Horan as their new senior football boss.

WHILE playing some of their least inspired football of the year on Saturday night, Limerick still managed to push Cork to extra-time: and, despite any discernible change in the pattern therein, they were still able to keep the issue up for debate right to the death.