Martin Comerford has bemoaned Kilkenny’s “systems failure” following Richie Hogan’s red card in last Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Brendan Maher may have handed over the Tipperary captaincy to Pádraic Maher last year but if the 2016 All-Ireland winning skipper gives the pre-match speech on Sunday it won’t come as any surprise.

Ballyhale Shamrocks showed a never-say-die spirit to fight their way to a share of the points against Danesfort in the Kilkenny senior hurling league on Saturday.

Eddie Keher finds it “extraordinary” Brian Cody was questioned following the opening Division 1A defeats to Waterford and Clare.

He won six All-Irelands with Kilkenny but there was surely more in Martin Comerford, who has now acknowledged that retiring from the inter-county game in 2011 may have been the ‘wrong’ move.

Age and a busted groin should be keeping Martin Comerford on the sidelines but Sunday in Wexford Park showed you can’t keep a good man down.

Oulart-The-Ballagh (Wexford) 0-17 O’Loughlin Gaels (Kilkenny) 3-17: The emphatic nature of this O’Loughlin Gaels’ victory was made all the more remarkable by the fact they didn’t score for the opening 12 minutes, after which they trailed by five points.

“It feels like I can fly…” So Jackie Tyrrell tweeted after Kilkenny won the 2011 Senior Final. 

Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-12 O’Loughlin Gaels 0-19: Threequarters way through at Nowlan Park yesterday the 9,130 attendance at last began to stir. The first half had been tepid.

Kilkenny senior hurling champions Clara will face off against leading title contenders Ballyhale Shamrocks for a place in this year's county final. 

Will last Sunday, for hurling, mark Swexit, asks PM O’Sullivan?

Clara 2-12 O’Loughlin Gaels 1-13: Let’s start at the end, if only because there’s no reason why we shouldn’t. At the very end, after the hurly-burly was done, after the battle was lost and won. That’s where the backdrop to Clara’s second Kilkenny SHC title in three seasons, and third ever, was painted.

The wheel has travelled full circle for Cillian Buckley.

Mia Hamm is a legend of women’s soccer in the United States. She is retired some ten years but she is still revered Stateside.

The departure of Tommy Walsh from the inter-county stage means we won’t see that red helmet blaze through a thicket having won a puck-out.

This tent, it seems, is pitched here forever.

The nature of goalkeeping is that survival one day means nothing a few weeks later

"Substitutions are a consequence of how you read the match. You cannot predict them before the game because it is unpredictable" – Jose Mourinho

Who best to talk about Henry Shefflin than those who knew him best — his team-mates.

The good times are back in Wexford. Win, lose or draw on Sunday, the Model must now push on to the next level

Brian Cody will take charge of Kilkenny for a 16th season in 2014 but will do so without long-term selector Martin Fogarty.

Former Kilkenny hurlers Andy and Martin Comerford have accused referees of conspiring against Brian Cody’s team to ensure their swift exit from this summer’s championship.

Eoin Larkin inspired James Stephens to victory over gritty Graigue-Ballycallan in an exciting Kilkenny SHC quarter-final in Freshford yesterday.

By the dawn of spring, Mario would either be long gone or be breaking his back foraging for ball out around wing-forward

It just goes on and on and on, remorseless, bordering on monotonous, to the point we’re almost numb to the scale of their achievement.

He may be carrying 12 pins and two plates in his leg but Cork speed merchant Luke O’Farrell has been making light of the injury which almost ended his career.

Three factors that could decide tomorrow’s Allianz Hurling League final

JAMES ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick was the first to walk before Christmas, Eddie Brennan followed him soon after and PJ Ryan handed in his notice just two weeks into the New Year.

THIRD-LEVEL institution Cork IT has signed an agreement with the Cork county board which will see Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling panel base their training sessions at the campus in Bishopstown for the 2012 season.

STRANGE days these for Gary Maguire.

Kilkenny's James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick has sensationally retired from senior inter-county hurling, explaining that he felt he 'wasn't rewarded' for his efforts during their 2011 All-Ireland winning campaign.

BALLYHALE Shamrocks qualified for the Kilkenny SHC final yesterday with a hugely impressive win over last year’s champions O’Loughlin Gaels.

RECENTLY retired Kilkenny star Martin Comerford has surprisingly claimed the Cats shouldn’t have been awarded a penalty in the 2009 All-Ireland final against Tipperary.

LAST YEAR'S epic showdown marked Tipperary’s Declan Fanning and Kilkenny’s Martin Comerford last game. Speaking separately, they recollect two of the greatest finals in the history of the game.

FORMER Kilkenny star Christy Heffernan has claimed Tipperary people have yet to get over the penalty that paved the way for the Cats’ 2009 All-Ireland final success.

TYPICAL, no-one has ever bothered to pick the greatest team of (allegedly) under-rated players of all times in the games of the Gael.

THE Kilkenny senior hurling league final, which will be played two weeks after the All-Ireland final, will be contested by champions Ballyhale Shamrocks and old city foes James Stephens.

HOW many goals will Joe Canning score tomorrow?