NEW Clare senior hurling coach Mike McNamara is convinced tiny Tulla can win the Munster Club championship and make a bold bid for All-Ireland honours next St. Patrick’s Day.

NO MATTER who comes out of the two Munster Club hurling semi-finals tomorrow, one thing we already know for certain — there will be new, first-time champions crowned in 2007.

LIAM SHEEDY’S two-year term as Tipperary senior hurling manager will officially begin this evening when the Kilruane McDonagh clubman is ratified at a meeting of the county board.

ARDFINNAN produced a tremendous display of passion, pride and no little football at Cashel to take the Tipperary SFC title for the first time in 31 years.

THE actions of Ariel Sharon’s government in building Israel’s so-called ‘security barrier’ on the West Bank is nothing more that a cynical attempt to grab Palestinian land under the guise of Israeli national security.

THE EU/US summit at Dromoland Castle agreed a joint declaration on ‘peace, progress, and reform in the broader Middle East and in the Mediterranean,’ which covered the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

IRELAND is due to sign an agreement which will make it easier for Chinese tourists to visit Ireland.

St Helens are to carry out their own inquiry into an alleged betting scandal involving two of their high-profile players.

Martin Gleeson's call for a boycott against Israel (Irish Examiner, July 29) is naive in the extreme.

The Israeli bomb attack on an apartment block in Gaza, which left 15 people dead, nine of them children, is another example of Ariel Sharon's government's campaign of terror against the Palestinian people.

Darren Albert, Super League’s exciting capture from Australian champions Newcastle Knights, is bracing himself for his first St Helens-Wigan derby.