It should go down as the Game That Never Was. As if no one ever paid or made their way through the turnstiles to watch it; as if no one ever played that Saturday evening; as if, for that moment in time, it didn’t seem to make the rest of the world fade into irrelevance, rather than the world soon after reducing that game to an irrelevance, writes Kieran Shannon.

And so 82 National League fixtures shoehorned for five March weekends will be ramrodded into four.

The surprise departure of Munster GAA CEO Simon Moroney, which was announced on Monday, means another significant vacancy will need to be filled by the association next summer.

Top-table officials in Clare and Limerick have expressed concern at the growing shortage of referees in either county.

Limerick are leaning in favour of the Croke Park motion to transform the provincial championships from knockout to round-robin, though it was decided at Tuesday’s county board meeting to allow their Special Congress delegation a free vote.

KILKENNY 0-11 - LIMERICK 0-17: Familiar territory, this, for Limerick. And a familiar question is again posed: Can this latest U21 success pave the way to senior hurling glory?

Gerry Bennis, former Limerick GAA chairman

Tipperary GAA chiefs have expressed disappointment that Semple Stadium has been omitted from the stadia comprising Ireland’s 2023 Rugby World Cup bid, as TDs from the county are set to demand answers for its omission.

Limerick officials estimate they will have lost out on close to €700,000 by the end of their senior hurlers’ seventh straight season outside Division 1A next year.

Offaly manager Eamonn Kelly accepts they have been a bogey team for Limerick in recent years but expects that will count against them in Tullamore on Sunday.

Crisis talks involving Limerick GAA’s top officials failed to find a resolution last night following Treasurer Donal Morrissey’s quit threat.

Limerick GAA could be rocked to its foundations tonight as speculation mounts that county board treasurer Donal Morrissey is on the verge of resigning his post.

Limerick GAA chairman Oliver Mann has suggested that too much emphasis is being placed on securing promotion from Division 1B of the hurling league.

The battle for promotion from Division 1B has turned into a money race with favourites Clare, Limerick, and Wexford desperate for a more substantial slice of the €1m-plus Allianz League gate receipt cake.

After a season’s delay, HawkEye is expected to come into operation at Semple Stadium in time for this year’s Munster championship.

The cost of preparing the various Limerick hurling and football teams in 2015 ran in excess of €1m.

Clare GAA chiefs don’t yet know if the highly regarded Paul Kinnerk will return to his coaching role with the county’s senior hurlers.

The first steps towards implementing HawkEye score detection technology at Semple Stadium will take place on Thursday.

GAA chiefs and Gardaí are likely to review footage of the unsavoury scenes which marred the end of the epic All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday evening.

Croke Park stadium director Peter McKenna says attracting American football, including NFL games, to the stadium is part of a long-term strategy designed to help the GAA to maintain its financial independence.

MUNSTER MHC FINAL:

Limerick wholeheartedly supported Páirc Uí Chaoimh hosting of the county’s Munster SHC final against Cork at Tuesday night’s decisive meeting — despite chairman Oliver Mann’s pictured comments that the call did "not make sense".

Cyberbullying of top GAA players has emerged as a serious issue that may require Garda intervention in certain extreme cases.

Contrary to previous assertions, no personal injury claim has been made against the GAA arising from the pitch invasion at last year’s Munster SHC final in the Gaelic Grounds.

Limerick GAA is now counting the cost of the pitch invasion that greeted Limerick’s first Munster SHC title since 1996.

It was a reasonably successful season on the field for Limerick, a first Munster senior hurling title since 1996 and a first senior/minor provincial double since 1940.

Former Limerick senior hurling boss Tom Ryan says he is “shocked and disappointed” after GAA chiefs decided not to ratify him as the county’s intermediate manager.

We take a look at the vacant seats in counties countrywide.

For the second time in three years, Offaly’s Brian Gavin has been handed the role of officiating the All-Ireland final.

Mike O’Riordan may be the busiest man in Limerick this week, but as Michael Moynihan discovered, he isn’t complaining for a second.

Almost 900 GAA players have left Clare and Limerick since 2008

Offaly secretary Tommy Byrne has urged GAA top brass to revisit the structuring of the Allianz League.

Limerick GAA chiefs have estimated that a failure to secure a place in the top flight of the Allianz Hurling League is costing them up to €150,000 per annum.

The IRFU last night welcomed the GAA’s decision to make stadiums available to their potential Rugby World Cup bid in Ireland in either 2023 or 2027.

In the first of a four-part series on key issues in the GAA, threats to the club is foremost.

Most county boards believe they are winning the battle with inter-county fixtures impinging on the club game.

Limerick GAA chiefs have bucked the economic downturn securing a new high profile sponsor for their senior hurling championship.

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.

Limerick secretary Mike O’Riordan will tell delegates at Sunday’s county convention the Gaelic Grounds is ‘operating at a loss.’