The first round of the Munster MFC has been pushed back a fortnight to April 22, but Munster Council chairman Liam Lenihan does not envisage any GAA activity until June, at the earliest.

The Limerick man has been hailed as one of the outstanding referees of his generation.

Christmas has come early for the grassroots GAA in Munster with over €1.3m allocated in this year's development grant scheme.

Kerry have turned down the opportunity to enter next year’s Munster minor hurling championship.

Aaron Gillane and Seán O'Shea were today honoured with PwC GAA/GPA Players of the Month honours for April.

Waterford manager Páraic Fanning says the county will now enter the Munster senior hurling championship on the same terms as the four other counties after yesterday’s confirmation that Walsh Park will be their home venue in 2019.

New Munster Council chairman Liam Lenihan aims to get the lowdown on the decline of rural clubs as a means of “keeping the dream alive in country areas”.

Necessity makes bedfellows of the fiercest of rivals, especially as GAA clubs fight against rural depopulation.

Limerick are well familiar with this fork in the road.

The secretary always gets the tough jobs. Just ask Mike O’Riordan in Limerick.

Across the country rural towns and villages have suffered the loss of services, infrastructure, and population, but one thing that is not in decline is community spirit. In the first of a five-part series, we visit Tournafulla, Co Limerick, and see unwavering local determination to keep the village on the map.

A changing of the guard is imminent for Clare and Limerick over the next eight days with the chairman of each county calling it a day.

All but one of Munster’s Liam MacCarthy Cup sides want a return to an eight-team Division 1 hurling league.

Meath’s Mark Ward has called on the GAA to adopt a zero tolerance approach against spectators found to have assaulted players after incidents in club games in Limerick and Cavan this weekend.

Changed and exciting times in Limerick.

An adult stand ticket for next Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier triple-header in Thurles will cost €25.

THE preservation of the GAA’s amateur status was the abiding message from speakers at Saturday’s discussion forum of county chairmen, secretaries and Central Council delegates.

LIMERICK GAA officials fired a final shot across the bow of Croke Park hierarchy for their handling of the 2012 Allianz Hurling League restructuring.

FIVE years after departing Cork, John Allen is back in inter-county management.

JOHN ALLEN will be proposed to Limerick club delegates for ratification as the county’s next senior hurling manager at a board meeting next Tuesday night.

THE next Limerick hurling manager will be asked to give a two-year commitment to the team and is expected to be named next week.

Donal O'Grady's tenure as Limerick senior hurling manager came to an end last night.

LIMERICK and Wexford have reacted strongly against the decision to restructure the Allianz Hurling League from next year.

A LIMERICK GAA chief is convinced “lessons have been learned” from the hurling controversy which rocked the county throughout 2010.

AUSTRALIA assistant coach Matthew Lappin has forecast an improved display from Ireland in Saturday night’s International Rules Second Test in Croke Park after being stung by media criticism of their display in last Saturday night’s clash in the Gaelic Grounds.

DONAL O’GRADY’S appointment as Limerick senior hurling boss was last night unanimously ratified by club delegates at a specially arranged board meeting with county chairman Liam Lenihan urging everyone in the county ‘to give unconditional support’ to the new manager and also claiming that ‘the day for agendas was gone’.

Donal O'Grady has tonight been officially appointed as the Limerick senior hurling manager for 2011, succeeding Justin McCarthy in the position.

LIMERICK hurling manager Justin McCarthy has rubbished suggestions that he is remaining in charge of the county’s hurlers for financial gain.

LIMERICK chairman Liam Lenihan insists that the future is bright for hurling in the county and that critics of the current county set-up should “check their facts”, after former Clare All-Ireland winning manager Ger Loughnane called on Limerick boss Justin McCarthy to step down in the wake of Sunday’s Munster SHC 13-point defeat against Cork.

AT the conclusion of Tuesday night’s vote of the Limerick County Board which confirmed Justin McCarthy as manager of the senior hurling team for the remainder of this season at least, chairman Liam Lenihan made a heartfelt appeal that all would accept the decision, and that the players now at loggerheads with the management would return to the fold.

ERICH SEGAL died recently, classics professor and author of ‘Love Story’.

THERE was no cheering in Claughaun GAA hall on Tuesday evening as the result of the ballot was read out. There was not a single whoop nor holler as the final tally was announced, an emphatic 83/47 win for the county board and for Justin McCarthy and his management team.

Despite calls from Limerick County Board chairman Liam Lenihan last night urging players from the 2009 panel to "put their differences behind them", it is unlikely that the bulk of those players will return under Justin McCarthy.

IN THE end, it was emphatic.

THE Limerick hurling crisis looks likely to come to a head shortly with the news that next Tuesday, March 23, is the date set for a special meeting of the Limerick county board at which the position of senior team manager Justin McCarthy will be the major topic for discussion.

GAA PRESIDENT Christy Cooney says that an external facilitator will not solve the Limerick hurling impasse.

LIMERICK GAA chiefs have slammed the GAA and GPA for failing to help in resolving the hurling standoff in the county with one official claiming the Players’ Association ‘have held up progress and undermined the negotiations.’

The Limerick County Board have said last night they are willing to fund the services of a professional mediator in the Limerick hurling dispute in a meeting club delegates at Claughaun last night.

A LONG and detailed debate but still no resolution to the Limerick hurling crisis – that was the outcome of last night’s monthly county board meeting in Claughaun.

Limerick chairman Liam Lenihan last night rejected claims that his board has been involved in a campaign of intimidation and bullying against members of the 2009 hurling squad who refuse to play under Justin McCarthy.

LIMERICK chairman Liam Lenihan last night rejected claims that his board has been involved in a campaign of intimidation and bullying against members of the 2009 hurling squad who refuse to play under Justin McCarthy.

LIMERICK chairman, Liam Lenihan, has described confirmation that the Gaelic Grounds will host the first test of the International Rules series on October 23 as ‘great news’.