It might be 15 years on from Clare’s last Championship win over Tipperary, but the trauma stays with Brian O’Meara.

Limerick turning Tipperary over is hardly something the Munster championship or the Gaelic Grounds hasn’t seen before yet there was something novel and different about this.

What did the National League final say about Tipperary’s Munster Championship prospects?

Michael Ryan may have produced the tactical masterstroke of the season when he shifted Ronan Maher into Tipperary’s midfield.

On the eve of the final round of the NHL, who are the brightest sparks in the class and who are the must-try-harders? Firm but fair as ever, our headmaster Enda McEvoy does his ritual

Met the proverbial — and in this case corporeal — man in the street the day before the league quarter-finals. The man in the street in question is a keen punter, often to be espied going in and out of his local Ladbrokes.

A landmark heritage building, magnificently restored, has been reopened to the public.

Tipperary might be champions of effing Ireland, at senior and minor, but the family that did most to put them there won’t be shouting about it. Noel and John McGrath won All-Ireland senior medals with Michael Ryan’s men, and brother Brian captained the Premier to the minor title. It crowned a tumultuous year for the family. But their feet never left the ground.

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

West Waterford will be a hive of activity this week as McGraths from all over the world descend on Dungarvan for a clan gathering.

Cian Lynch was an 11-year-old whippersnapper at the time but the impression lasts. 

That is how a lawyer described to the High Court the injuries suffered by Matthew McGrath when he was only 17 months old.

A huge weekend of senior hurling activity saw the Tipperary SHC championship reduced to the last eight, and while there were no major upsets, there were some very significant results, not least the victory of Thurles Sarsfields over Drom-Inch.

MUNSTER CLUB SHC QUARTER-FINAL:

Loughmore-Castleiney 1-17 Nenagh Éire Óg 1-16

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

You can blame Malcolm McDonald.

Mid Tipp SHC title holders, Loughmore-Castleiney, blitzed Tipperary champions Drom-Inch in this Mid Tipperary senior hurling semi-final replay at Templetuohy on Saturday.

The clash of the champions in the Mid Tipperary senior hurling championship semi-final ended in stalemate at Templetuohy yesterday as county champions Drom-Inch, courtesy of a pointed free by Johnny Ryan with the last puck of extra-time, forced a 2-21 each draw with Loughmore-Castleiney, the divisional champions, in a thrilling contest.

HOLLYWOOD heart-throb George Clooney is a Kilkenny man.

That’s Anne McGrath’s verdict of the politicians who drew up Budget 2011.

TALKING to a very neutral individual early in the second half of this All-Ireland semi-final yesterday, at a time when Waterford were mounting a comeback, he said to me, “I hope this doesn’t last, because if it does we won’t have an All-Ireland final.”

SECOND-HALF goals from substitutes Noel McGrath and Patrick Maher proved decisive as Tipperary defeated Munster finalists Waterford by five points in a keenly-contested senior hurling challenge at Semple Stadium last night.

LAST year’s beaten quarter-finalists Templemore CBS secured their place in the knockout stages of the Dr Harty Cup yesterday with an eight-point victory.

TONY BROWNE is named at midfield on the Waterford team for tomorrow’s Munster SHC semi-final replay against Limerick at Semple Stadium, the veteran Mount Sion clubman’s first championship start since last year’s All-Ireland final.

ARDMORE GAA officials have blasted the Waterford County Board’s decision to fix their Waterford SHC relegation playoff against Mount Sion for Bank Holiday Monday.

QUALITY is the gateway to winning and keeping consumer confidence, Glanbia chairman Michael Walsh declared in Kilkenny yesterday.

WHAT A privilege it was on Sunday to see Irish rugby finally grow up. That’s two big wins over two southern hemisphere sides but what was even more impressive, both wins were recorded as favourites.

De La Salle 1-12 Mount Sion 0-14

ONE could be forgiven for thinking there’s a jaded appearance about Sunday’s Mount Sion/Ballygunner showdown in the Waterford SHC decider at Walsh Park, being as they’ve met in six of the last 11 finals.

IF the tickets are as rare as they say they are, then the discerning hurling fans of Cork and Waterford are obviously anticipating a classic Munster final in Thurles tomorrow.

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