Tipperary manager Liam Kearns has expressed disappointment with the Premier County’s failure to secure two All-Star awards.

Loughmore-Castleiney 1-9 Moyle Rovers 1-6: Sometimes it’s how you respond to setbacks that defines you and that proved to be the case yesterday for Loughmore-Castleiney as they took their third Tipperary senior football title in four years.

Drom-Inch and Loughmore-Castleiney progressed to the Mid Tipp SHC final with comfortable wins over Holycross-Ballycahill and Moycarkey-Borris at Boherlahan.

Templederry had to survive a late Silvermines surge before claiming a place in the club’s first ever North senior hurling final courtesy of a 0-25 to 3-13 win in Nenagh.

Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea has trimmed a number of players, including 2010 All-Ireland SHC medallist Paul Curran, from his squad ahead of this summer’s championship.

Waterford Crystal Cup

Cahir 1-10 Loughmore-Castleiney 2-7

TIPPERARY SHC FINAL:

Loughmore-Castleiney 3-22 Mullinahone 0-14

Tipperary senior hurling champions, Loughmore-Castleiney suffered a shock defeat in the Mid Division’s SHC semi-final, losing to Upperchurch -Drombane 2-19 to 1-21 after extra-time at Templemore yesterday.

Loughmore/Castleiney chase an unique piece of history in tomorrow’s Tipperary SFC final with Aherlow Gaels at Semple Stadium.

Cork have made one change in personnel to their side for tomorrow night’s Munster U21FC final against Tipperary in Thurles (7.30pm).

Drom-Inch 2-26 Loughmore-Castleiney 1-21 (AET)

Tipperary senior champions Drom & Inch remain on course to retain the Dan Breen Cup following an impressive 2-22 to 0-13 quarter-final win over west champions Clonoulty Rossmore at Semple Stadium.

They may have finished the game with 13 men but Kerry still produced a controlled performance to arrest their recent run of underage defeats to Tipperary in last night’s Cadbury’s Munster U21FC quarter-final in Semple Stadium.

OUR LADY’S, Templemore produced a much-improved performance to storm past Midleton CBS in a one-sided Dr Harty Cup quarter-final replay in Cahir yesterday.

MIDLETON CBS rescued their Dr Harty Cup campaign when Dillon Cahill grabbed a dramatic injury-time goal to force a draw against Our Lady’s Templemore in a pulsating quarter-final clash in Cahir yesterday afternoon.

OUR LADY’S, Templemore assured themselves of a place in the knock out stages of the Dr Harty Cup with a 2-19 to 2-13 victory over St. Caimin’s at Claughaun yesterday.

CHAMPIONS Ardscoil Rís opened the defence of their Dr Harty Cup title in fine style with a comfortable 3-22 to 0-8 win over Waterford Colleges in Tipperary Town.

LIMERICK and Tipperary are both bidding to break the stranglehold that Cork and Kerry have exerted in the Munster minor football grade, when the semi-finals of the competition take place tonight.

TIPPERARY boss Mark O’Leary has made four changes to his starting line-up from the side beaten by Cork for tonight’s Munster MHC play-off against Clare in Ennis (6.30pm).

TIPPERARY manager David Power insists his team has nothing to fear against Cork in the ESB Munster MFC semi-final on May 12.

KERRY are the latest county to ratify the process of appointing a full-time GAA secretary. A proposal at this week’s county board meeting means each of the six Munster counties has now gone the road of appointing a full-time salaried official to administrate affairs.

Both Kerry and Tipperary teams have been announced for Sunday's ESB Munster Minor Football final at Pairc Ui Chaoimh, Cork.

TIPPERARY sprung a huge surprise in last night’s Munster MFC semi-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, edging out Cork after a marathon affair that required extra-time to deliver an outcome.

BOTH John Kennedy and Mick Slocum are singing from the same hymn sheet ahead of tonight’s Munster MFC semi-finals.

KERRY lodged a positive result in their Munster MFC account, with victory in last night’s quarter-final clash at Semple Stadium.

KERRY minor boss John Kennedy hopes his charges will feed off the All-Ireland colleges success of Coláiste na Sceilge, when they open the defence of their Munster MFC crown in today’s quarter-final against Tipperary, (Semple Stadium 6.30pm).

COMMUNITY workers began a hunger strike outside the General Post Office in Dublin yesterday to try and convince Taoiseach Bertie Ahern that their jobs are worth saving.

CALLING on all their experience and brilliantly marshalled by outstanding centre-back Pat Mulcahy, 14-man Newtownshandrum edged out Midleton, 1-10 to 0-12 in Castletownroche on Saturday in an opening round permanent tsb Cork County SHC contest.

After the first day's play in the 36-holes Monkstown pro-am tournament there 's a traffic jam at the top of the leaderboard.