His mother said there is now a road in Bangladesh called to the Ryan road while Micheál has been posthumously appointed Chief Engineer of the UN World Food Programme.

The loss of a young, active life is always tragic, especially if that person is a parent of young children.

Clare and Tipperary are set to clash over the schedule of next year’s Munster senior hurling championship.

There’s a touch of the 2013 momentum building behind Clare and Cork will need to thread extremely carefully in Semple Stadium next Sunday as they attempt to retain the Munster SHC title.

I was working for RTÉ Radio 1 on the evening that Tipperary annihilated Galway in the 2010 All-Ireland U21 final.

When I was Clare manager, we played Limerick in the league semi-final in 2006 in Thurles. The game went to extra-time but it nearly seemed that both teams were more concerned with losing the match than winning it, writes Anthony Daly.

Lar Corbett says the level of competition for places and talent in the Tipperary forward line “can’t get any better” right now.

The slim gent at the doorway will look familiar to those heading from Liberty Square to Semple Stadium tomorrow.

On the day Dublin played Waterford in the relegation final in Walsh Park in 2014, we still had four minutes before we had to leave the dressing room when I walked out the door. “I’ve enough said,” I told the players. “I’m going.” I high-tailed, banged the door and was gone.

Tipperary 3-21 Wexford 1-21: Tipperary were forced to withstand a late Wexford rally as Patrick Maher’s injury time goal sealed victory for the home side.

It may only be February but the Model County already look to be in peak condition, reckons Anthony Daly

Over 20 years on, Davy Fitzgerald still wants to win everything as badly as ever, writes Anthony Daly

Tipperary legend Brendan Cummins has claimed this year’s team looked burdened by expectation and as if they were going to work instead of a hurling game.

’The cock will be there Sunday,” confirms Borris-Ileigh chairman Mark Stapleton. “It’s a tradition and the older generation want to keep it.”

Galway have shown to date that when they are tuned and ready, they are capable of wrecking teams, writes Anthony Daly.

Babs Keating has described the All-Ireland winning Cork team of 1966 as “moderate enough”, claiming it was one of the easiest All-Irelands ever won.

On the way home from the Gaelic Grounds yesterday, I was snaking my way out the Ennis Road in my car when I saw Conor Hayes at the side of the road.

There was a time, of course, when Galway-Tipperary had a toxic edge to it. So toxic, in fact, that a man could be endangered even when mowing his lawn.

Kilkenny will be on high alert, especially after the trimming they took from Clare, writes Anthony Daly.

Dublin will hope to perform this evening but Tipp should win, while Wexford Park will be electric for Limerick’s visit, writes Anthony Daly.

At around 4.15am yesterday morning, some boy-racer thought the Ennis-Kilrush road was Siverstone or Mondello Park. The car started doing donuts, the screeching tyres laying assault to my eardrums. I had to be up at 6.30 anyway to meet the Limerick minor bus at 8 but that was my night’s sleep done and dusted.

Tipperary captain Brendan Maher already regrets his All-Ireland winning acceptance speech after forgetting to thank Michael Ryan and the management team.

Willie Bryan — midfielder, All Star, Footballer of the Year, artist, gentleman, musician, storyteller, legend. And the first Offaly man to lift the Sam Maguire...

John Mullane and I have had this ‘friendly’ €20 bet over the last few months on the outcome of the Clare-Waterford championship match in June, but we decided live on RTÉ Radio 1 yesterday to bring it forward by five weeks. Now it has turned into a rolling bet, the money still sweating in the pot until next Sunday. We hope.

I came in early yesterday morning to watch the Clare U21s play Dublin in a challenge game in Clare-abbey, our old pitch in Clarecastle.