Brian Geary, Wayne McNamara and Donie Ryan have been added to the Limerick team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Offaly at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 7pm).

Galway ensured their presence in the Division 1 semi-finals by overcoming Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds.

Limerick 0-22 Tipperary 2-13

Mike Fitzgerald, Brian Begley and Sean O'Connor are the three new inclusions in the Limerick team to face Tipperary in Sunday's second Munster SHC semi-final replay, Gaelic Grounds, throw-in 3.30pm.

Four players have shrugged off injuries to be named in the Limerick team to face Tipperary in Sunday's Munster SHC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 2pm).

Kilkenny 2-17 Limerick 0-12

Paudie O'Dwyer and Mike O'Brien have been given starting spots in the Limerick team for tomorrow evening's All-Ireland SHC Group B qualifier clash with Dublin (Gaelic Grounds, throw-in 7.30pm).

TJ Ryan will resume his captaincy of the Limerick hurling team for tomorrow night's must-win All-Ireland qualifier clash with Offaly (Tullamore, throw-in 7pm).

Limerick have made four changes to their starting 15 for their hurling championship qualifier against Clare on Sunday.

LOYAL but long-suffering - twin terms that are particularly apt when describing Limerick hurling fans.

Limerick 1-14 Clare 0-13

Kerry 3-10 Limerick 2-9

Kerry and Limerick renew rivalries today in the Bank of Ireland Munster football final at the Gaelic Grounds in a repeat of last year's decider, with the Shannonsiders bidding to avenge their defeat.

Limerick manager Liam Kearns welcomes Jason Stokes back to the Limerick team at left half-forward for Sunday's Munster football final against defending champions Kerry.

ALL eight qualifier games in the first round of the Bank of Ireland football championship will be played next Saturday, with the Kildare/Offaly tie in Newbridge — seen as the main attraction — timed for 2.30.

IT TOOK an accident of circumstance for TJ Ryan to become captain of the Limerick hurlers, the first player from Garryspillane to ever achieve that honour.

BRITISH Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday sought to play down the significance of a letter from 52 former top diplomats that delivered a damning indictment of his stand on Iraq and the Middle East.

BALLINASLOE experienced a day borrowed from last summer yesterday, one of those rare occasions in the west when there was no rain-or threat of it. Perhaps the sense that spring was in the air jolted Galway enough to turn on the style in the second-half.

BRILLIANT wing-forward Stephen Kelly is a surprise omission from the Limerick team to play Galway in Division 1B of the Allianz NFL at Ballinasloe on Sunday.

LIMERICK football manager Liam Kearns and his selectors are to consider their position at the end of the year as the dual player row continues to divide the county.

WAVING the French flag or wearing it as a head scarf, thousands of Muslim women marched worldwide this weekend in a protest against France’s plan to ban head coverings from public schools.

Hurling manager Padjoe Whelahan has reportedly told his panel in training this week that he expects full commitment this season.

LEINSTER go into today’s Golfsure Youth Interprovincial Golf Tournament at Lahinch as defending champions but such is the galaxy of talent among the other provinces that a retention of the trophy is by no means certain.

Tipperary hurling star Eamonn Corcoran has hit back at the 12-week suspension imposed on him and labelled it "outrageous".

Limerick have made 10 changes to their line-up for Sunday's hurling league clash with Dublin at Kilmallock.

SADDAM HUSSEIN remains in Iraq and is moving around the country, the leader of a US-backed Iraqi opposition group said in an interview broadcast yesterday.

Thursday March 20 - 0100: Bush’s deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq expires.

Limerick 1-12

Cork 0-15 Limerick 0-14

Limerick avenged their All-Ireland quarter-final defeat at the hands of

The Hammond Inquiry report into the Hinduja passport affair has cleared Peter Mandelson of wrong-doing.

The facts behind the resignation of Peter Mandelson are to be revealed.

Jack Straw has been being named as the man who triggered Peter Mandelson's downfall by informing Tony Blair of a discrepancy in the former Northern Ireland Secretary's account of events.

Northern Secretary Peter Mandelson has been called into 10 Downing Street by Tony Blair to "establish the facts" of his involvement with a passport application.

British supporters of fox-hunting are facing the greatest ever threat to the future of their sport, after MPs voted in favour of a outright ban on hunting with dogs.