AgeAction chief executive Paddy Connolly says the GAA are in a great position to help the elderly during the coronavirus crisis, writes John Fogarty.

"The fight against Covid-19 must continue. Messages like this and others on social media are certainly not helping that cause."

Tipperary officials said they went ahead with the trip following “consideration of travel guidance”.

All-Ireland senior hurling champions Tipperary will return from their five-day warm-weather training camp in Spain’s Costa Blanca tomorrow as expected.

Cork senior hurling selector Diarmuid O’Sullivan will be free to fulfil his role as maor foirne in the Munster senior hurling championship having avoided a sideline ban.

The proverbial game of two halves in Salthill but a wind-assisted half-time lead of seven points wasn’t nearly enough for Tipperary to hang on.

Our writers chat through the main talking points from the weekend’s Allianz League action.

As expected injury has ruled former hurler of the year Joe Canning out of Galway’s do-or-die NHL clash with Tipperary tomorrow as Shane O’Neill places his faith in 14 of the starters that claimed victory over Cork last time out.

Our writers chat through the main talking points from the weekend’s Allianz League action.

Tipperary are much changed for Sunday's crucial Allianz Hurling League clash with Waterford.

At the third time of asking, Tipperary recorded their first win of the Allianz Hurling League as they put Westmeath to the sword at Semple Stadium.

Cork manager Kieran Kingston has also made four changes, with Eoin Cadogan selected at full-back.

John O’Dwyer also makes his seasonal return after recovering from an injury against Cork.

When Liam Cahill took over as Waterford manager last autumn, his first act was to take out his axe and get chopping. A host of names were dropped but when that list included team-captain Noel Connors, and another high-profile casualty, Maurice Shanahan, much of the discussion focussed on Cahill’s reasoning behind those decisions.

Options, options, options. For all the pieties to be heard after NHL games, managers are keeping an eye out all the time for options.

Gaelfast, the €1m five-year initiative to bolster the engagement levels with the GAA in Belfast and the county under the stewardship of Paul Donnelly, has already seen foundations laid across all communities in the city.

The chair of the GAA’s Hurling Development Committee has backed the introduction of the sin bin to the game.

A long day’s journey into night on Saturday, with Cork and Tipperary serving up an entertaining tussle that felt for a while as though it might never end.

John Fogarty and Eoghan Cormican preview the weekend's GAA fixtures.

The GAA has banned hurley/water carriers from using walkie talkie radio systems during games.

When a losing manager — unprompted — describes a game as a tale of two halves the story writes itself.

Tipp versus Limerick. The first match of 2020. The last match of 2019 in an only very slightly parallel dimension, one not populated by Alan Kelly’s umpires.

Former All-Ireland winning Cork captain Mark Landers wants the Rebels to take the Allianz Hurling League seriously but also accepts it’s the perfect opportunity to blood players who have flown under the radar.

Power is missing a number of star names for the 2020 campaign.

Let’s face it, decades ain’t what they used to be. There was a time was when you knew where you stood with a decade. The sixties? Flower power and beards. The seventies? Sideburns and disco. The eighties? Everything was massive: shoulder pads, mobile phones, hair. You used to be able to tell a decade simply by looking at the trousers involved.

Legendary Cork goalkeeper and now head coach Ger Cunningham said he would have loved the current Munster championship format to have been in place during his playing career.

What is the grist for the mill among the 10 Liam MacCarthy Cup teams in 2020? From Tipperary looking to roll back the years to the 1960s to Cork hoping to avoid the county’s joint-longest stretch without the Liam MacCarthy Cup, there is plenty to go around, writes John Fogarty.

The result, which played out in front of a crowd of 1,628, means the All-Ireland champions cannot now progress to the decider.

Liam Sheedy acknowledged Tipperary came up a little short late on in their one-point Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League loss to Clare.

Eamon O’Shea, who came on board as part of the coaching set-up last season, has been handed a new role in the Tipp backroom team.

That 2020 campaign will officially begin this Sunday with the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League game against Clare at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh, which will be broadcast live on the Irish Examiner Sport Facebook page.

Tipperary selector Darragh Egan has said it will be even more difficult for the Premier County to emerge from the Munster round-robin in 2020 as Clare, Cork, and Waterford will each get “a bounce” from their new manager.

GAA managers make up four of the seven shortlisted.

Sheedy guided the Premier County to victory over Kilkenny last August — nine years after overseeing their 2010 success.

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