Arriving onto Jones Road for their All-Ireland semi-final with Cork, Declan Hannon was one of only three men on Limerick’s starting team to have previously played a senior championship game at Croke Park.

There’s something about the 1930s that sets it apart in the history of hurling, writes Paul Rouse

Galway are there. Cork and Waterford are nearly there. Hurling is taking its August turns. Lovely late summer cadences.

A cousin of mine is fond of telling a story from a day in school long ago, when her class was tasked with a question to take home to their parents: what was the most memorable event in their lives?

A couple of weeks back Austin Gleeson gave a superb exhibition of centre-back play in Walsh Park for the Waterford U21s as they rolled to an impressive victory over Tipperary in the Munster final.

It is a lot of pressure for one player to bear but if Limerick are to beat champions Cork on Saturday in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Championship, Niamh Mulcahy will have to be at her very best.

The advice given by the wise newspaper editor in the case of Liberty Valance all those years ago still holds: when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Before you can read the game, you have to know the alphabet. Ahead of the Tipp-Waterford Munster final, Larry Ryan studies the curriculum of this fixture’s glorious history.

In death, as in life, people will again be looking up to Páidi Ó Sé.

A monument to Kerry football legend Páidí Ó Sé is set to be added to the list of tourist attraction in the Dingle Peninsula.

The village of Castleconnell, Co Limerick gave Andy Lee, newly-crowned WBO Middleweight champion a homecoming reception to remember last night.

Glen Rovers are looking to bridge a generational gap as they bid for another Cork title tomorrow at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Today marks the 75th anniversary of one the most memorable All-Ireland hurling finals in history.

Christy Ring made his championship debut for the Cork senior hurlers in 1940. They were dark days for the county.

Progression to the McGrath Cup semi-final was the last item on James O’Donoghue’s agenda as he readied himself underneath the Mick Mackey Stand on Sunday afternoon.

Late August 1997 and Ger Loughnane is talking about life, the universe and hurling in a hotel in Ennis.

SCIENCE and art don’t always make the easiest bedfellows. However, when photographer Mick Mackey travelled to the sub-Antarctic island of Bird Island for a 30-month stint as a field biologist he was able to utilise his eye for detail to capture images that are not only technically proficient, but also vibrant, occasionally quirky and highly evocative.

Tomorrow’s All-Ireland senior camogie final has a very similar feel to the backstory of last weekend’s hurling decider.

As someone born and reared close to the border — just off the main road to Ennis on the banks of the Shannon in Cratloe — I grew up with first-hand experience of the Clare and Limerick rivalry.

One of Limerick’s longest-serving hurling fans is hoping divine intervention can procure a win for the Treaty men in Croke Park against Clare in the All-Ireland hurling semi-final on Sunday.

In hurling there’s a cycle every 20 years or so in the middle section of the decade. “New teams” surface and hold sway until they fade and the big guns boom again.

When Gavin Mortimer wrote A History of Cricket in 100 Objects, nothing would stop Michael Moynihan of this parish giving us this, the Munster hurling championship in 25 objects...

Munster Council chiefs have turned down a Limerick motion to name the province’s senior hurling trophy in honour of Mick Mackey.

He already has a GAA stadium stand and roundabout named after him but one of Ireland’s greatest ever hurlers has now been immortalised in bronze.

The author of a new book on the history behind GAA’s major cups and trophies has called on the Munster Council to name the province’s senior football and hurling competitions after deceased Gaels.

People hung by the radio waiting for his voice to tell them if their county had won or lost.

Hundreds of mourners yesterday turned out to celebrate the life of hurling great, Jimmy Smyth in his home Clare village of Ruan.

A stout defence of the controversial ‘black card’ recommended by the Football Development Committee was made by chairman Eugene McGee at last evening’s Munster Convention.

Cork senior footballer Denis O’Sullivan has applied for a transfer from Ballinascarthy to neighbouring club Clonakilty.

There was a time within living memory when the Railway Cup was a big deal.

With three contested positions and three other officers retiring at the end of their five years’ service, yesterday’s attendance at the Limerick GAA convention in the city’s Strand Hotel was the highest for a number of years.

Every hurling county has its renowned clubs. Tullaroan, Mooncoin, Mount Sion, Toomevara, Thurles Sars, Cork’s big trio of Glen Rovers, Blackrock and St. Finbarr’s, all roll off the tongue.

Tommy O’Connell was chatting to a couple of friends in the Croke Park Hotel an hour or two before last year’s All-Ireland final when Jimmy Magee passed by. One of the friends buttonholed Magee and, pointing to O’Connell, asked him why this man had a place in hurling history.

What’s all this fuss about Joe Canning and what he said?

I have to admire Brian Cody again this week with his perfectly times comments on the threat to hurling’s physicality dominating the midweek press conference ahead of Kilkenny’s Allianz League decider with Cork.

To celebrate their 125th anniversary, Cappamore GAA club in Limerick will play host to a senior hurling challenge between Limerick and Dublin on Sunday, throw-in 4pm.

Kerry duo’s selection for the Martin Donnelly interpro series is a huge boost, writes Diarmuid O’Flynn

LAST YEAR Henry Martin met up with his publisher, Con Collins of the Collins Press, for a chat. Just a chat.

THE last time a team scored seven or more goals in a Munster hurling final was in 1936.