Now, this is a tough one... Ten famous faces from GAA fields across Ireland are concealed in these emojis.

There is no cause for alarm in Tipperary’s mixed Allianz league campaign thus far, says Shane McGrath.

Tipperary limped to their second successive win of their Division 1, Group A campaign and remain in the running for a knock-out place.

At the third time of asking, Tipperary recorded their first win of the Allianz Hurling League as they put Westmeath to the sword at Semple Stadium.

Tipp versus Limerick. The first match of 2020. The last match of 2019 in an only very slightly parallel dimension, one not populated by Alan Kelly’s umpires.

On the eve of the roaring twenties, John Fogarty hails the doyens of the last decade in hurling

The fallout surrounding proposed lengthy suspensions handed out to 16 championship-winning minor players and seven juvenile club officials has extended to Douglas GAA’s senior club.

Eoin Larkin has criticised the “nasty” streak he felt ran through Tipperary during some of their clashes with Kilkenny.

Ten years ought to constitute a sufficient sample size for undertakings such as these and in the present instance it does. It was not a difficult team to pick, nor should it have been.

Patrick Horgan has been shortlisted for 2019 PwC Hurler of the Year award, along with Tipperary and Kilkenny captains Séamus Callanan and TJ Reid.

His time in blue and gold may only be in its infancy, but Jake Morris is pretty certain there’ll never be a week to top the one just finished.

Complacency or commitment not to blame for Tipp’s failure to retain All-Ireland crowns, says McGrath

Championship 2019: wonder after wonder. Here’s a few of the highlights from the reel.

In the aftermath of their 2014 All-Ireland final loss to Kilkenny, Eamon O’Shea defiantly declared that “This team (Tipp) will always have hope, they have great character, and the nucleus of this team will go on in the future and win All-Irelands.”

Michael Moynihan has rung all the juries, collated all the votes, and accepted all the bribes.

The team includes six players from All-Ireland champions Tipperary and four from beaten finalists Kilkenny.

Sending offs can have major influences on a game.

As Liam Sheedy said, the second goal three minutes into the second half was what made this game Tipperary’s.

One county is ecstatic this morning and one despairing, as is always the case after an All-Ireland final.

As a gauge of how competitive the All-Ireland final was, the free-taking sequence for both sides tells an interesting story.

As a gauge of how competitive the All-Ireland final was, the free-taking sequence for both sides tells an interesting story.

The rivalry has defined so much of this decade it shouldn’t be surprising that the players and their skills have done so too.

Kilkenny is as tribal a rivalry as it comes for John Leahy but his outlook on hurling now is more holistic

Who’s it going to be then, eh?

As anticipated, Kilkenny have drafted in Cillian Buckley for Richie Leahy for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC final.

Conor Browne had seven possessions in the All-Ireland semi-final, a figure roundly accepted as being below-average for a midfielder.

Jerome Cahill’s pinch-me moment? Easy, the Tipp dressing room on the evening of Saturday, January 26.

Richard Stakelum spent the Tipperary-Wexford semi-final next to his brother, Pat.

On the eve of the 2018 Championship, Eoin Kelly complained about knowing so little about what was happening inside Michael Ryan’s camp.

A seventh All-Ireland final game and for a seventh time it’s Kilkenny - Noel McGrath can’t but associate one with the other.

Quite frankly, only the most dogged of souls will survive. And even then, the bodies will be sore for days afterwards, you would imagine.

And then there were two — but how many of the Kilkenny and Tipperary teams are in the driving seat for All-Stars? John Fogarty makes his shouts

Emotion was the standout feeling for me after the weekend. For a variety of reasons.

When you are old and grey and full of sleep, all you will need to wake up will be yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final, in whatever format you fancy.

Twenty minutes to go, five points and a man down after John McGrath’s silly sending off and you could almost hear the sounds of the knives being sharpened for Tipperary and this generation of players.

A powerful final 25 minutes by 14-men Tipperary sent them into next month’s All-Ireland final against Kilkenny.

Declan Fanning has the mental and physical scars to prove Wexford don’t hold back.

Liam Sheedy was ebullient about his Tipperary team when talking on local radio this week. “We feel we pushed a bit of energy back in by taking a little bit of a break in the early part after the Laois match so preparations have gone extremely well and I honestly can’t wait to get out on this pitch next Sunday.”

Jim Gavin appeared to be less than pleased with aspects of the Croke Park pitch on Saturday evening but questions over the surface’s quality were met with some puzzlement by the hurling fraternity yesterday.

There was only ever going to be one winner here and, right enough, it was Laois.

Laois’ summer odyssey is over but they got to finish on terms that were perfectly acceptable given this was an All-Ireland quarter-final and their opponents were one of the game’s blue bloods.

Cork All-Ireland winner Joe Deane on his grip and the art of free-taking.

You have your choice of Munster final metrics this morning.