Ryan O’Dwyer believes Anthony Daly — a ‘headcase’ whose colourful character perfectly suits the team — will stay on as Dublin hurling manager.

Abortion has been widely debated in Ireland for at least three decades and the subject of three referenda.

Tomás Brady, Stephen Hiney and Conal Keaney will complete their recoveries from cruciate knee ligament injuries when they line out for Dublin against Laois tomorrow evening.

The last time a competition ended like this, it must have been the OK Corral in 1881.

FULLEN GAELS, who are they? Even to Charleville they’re a bit of a mystery.

ANTHONY DALY is a smiler.

THE last time we saw this Tipperary team, in the Munster final five weeks ago, it was the attack winning all the plaudits, a seven-goal blitzing of Waterford.

REFEREES chief Mick Curley has admitted the new rule change in relation to incidents dealt with by the match officials is open to inconsistencies.

Kilkenny 4-17 Dublin 1-15

CONOR O’MAHONY returns to the Tipperary lineup for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare in the Gaelic Grounds in the only change from the side that defeated Cork last month. O’Mahony is named at centre-back with Padraic Maher moving to half-back and John O’Keeffe to the full-back line in place of Paddy Stapleton.

Defenders Maurice O'Brien and Oisin Gough will start for Dublin in tomorrow's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Offaly at Croke Park (throw-in 2pm).

Dublin 0-22 Kilkenny 1-7

IT’S almost unfortunate Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh isn’t commentating on Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 final. He would have been in his element reciting the native counties of the Dublin players’ parents.

THE signs are everywhere and Ryan O’Dwyer can’t help but noticing them.

CORK’S team for the short trip east to Dungarvan to play Waterford on Sunday shows three changes to the side that started in last weekend’s win over Galway.

Dublin 2-22 Clare 0-15

IT’S funny the things you overhear at matches.

FINALLY, it came to pass.

KILKENNY welcome back James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick and TJ Reid from the All-Ireland Club champions Ballyhale Shamrocks for the Allianz NHL Division One clash with Galway at Nowlan Park tomorrow.

Dublin 3-16 Dubs Stars 1-11

Shane Ryan will line out for the Dublin Senior hurlers for the first time this Sunday, since his decision to quit the Blues' Senior football panel last October.

SLIGO midfielder Eamonn O’Hara has warned inter-county players are prepared to go on strike if they fail to receive adequate funding under the Government grants scheme.

EDINBURGH took on the appearance of a human zoo last night as thousands of supporters of the Leinster Lions and Leicester Tigers began to arrive in the Scottish capital in advance of today’s Heineken Cup final.

THE Fiat motor company had made changes to the design of its Punto car following a fatal crash in Kerry last year, an inquest heard yesterday.

A SECURITY guard and another man are being questioned by gardaí in Dublin after an armed raider was killed, possibly with his own knife, following a botched supermarket robbery.

I WISH to respond to Barry Walsh’s criticism (June 20) of the letter from Michael O’Driscoll (June 17) regarding the role of the Referendum Commission in relation to the yes side in the Lisbon Treaty campaign.

DAIRYGOLD yesterday secured a High Court order that a former worker’s claim for improved redundancy terms, along with an allegation there was a conspiracy between the company and the trade union involved, was frivolous and vexatious.

CIARAN POWER (Pezula Racing) strengthened his grip on the Pauline Sugrue Auctioneers Rás Mumhan when he won a three-man sprint into Waterville to take yesterday’s gruelling South Kerry Climbs. His victory highlights his disgust with having been denied a Sports Council Grant this year and Cycling Ireland’s refusal to put forward an appeal on his behalf.

CIARÁN POWER (Pezula Racing) may have been dumped on the scrapheap when the Sports Council were handing out their grants to elite sports people, but he was at the top of the pile yesterday evening when he won the opening stage of the Pauline Sugrue Auctioneers Rás Mumhan into Killorglin.

A MAN who sustained a serious head injury after being kicked by a horse on Christmas Day was rushed to a Dublin hospital for an urgent neurosurgical review when his condition rapidly deteriorated. But he died before the review could be carried out.

BRIAN KENNEALLY (MyHome.ie/BDBC) won Rás Mumhan in a pulsating finish in Killorglin yesterday.

Limerick 1-09 Galway 0-17

AGRICULTURE and business sectors have lost a visionary figure with the death of Maurice O’Brien, Derrynahool, Mitchelstown.

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT open the defence of their Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup today with a tricky first round home tie against Galway IT (Limerick, 2pm).

Ballygunner 2-12 Garryspillane 1-11

EVERYWHERE else in Ireland, yesterday was a grey, damp day but not in the vast Garryspillane hinterland, in the villages of Knocklong and Galbally, where many of the Limerick SHC- winning team were born and raised.

Garryspillane 4-16 Croom 1-20