The chair of the GAA’s Hurling Development Committee has backed the introduction of the sin bin to the game.

Rockwell advanced to the quarter-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with a four-try victory over Bandon Grammar School.

Rockwell advanced to the quarter-finals of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup with a four-try victory over Bandon Grammar School.

UCC’s defence of the Fitzgibbon Cup stayed on track as they booked a home quarter-final with victory over Cork IT at the Mardyke on Sunday.

Rockwell made it safely through to the second round of the Clayton Hotels Munster Schools Senior Cup and a meeting with Bandon Grammar School with a comprehensive win over High School Clonmel at Musgrave Park on Wednesday.

Ahead of today's All-Ireland club semi-final at LIT Gaelic Grounds, PM O'Sullivan travelled to Borrisoleigh and 'lovely fair Ileigh' to find out what makes Tipperary's champions tick.

All-Ireland champions Tipperary went down to visitors Clare in this Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League opener at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh.

“He was the difference between the teams today,” declared an ecstatic St Mary’s coach, Dan Shanahan. “His puckouts were good and he hasn’t conceded a goal in four games.”

It almost isn’t fair.

Joe Ó Muircheartaigh Clare SFC final replay

Dr Crokes and South Kerry will have to face off again next weekend after a Michael Potts’ goal in the second half of extra-time saved the defending champions’ blushes.

Experienced Ballyhale Shamrocks made it a 17th senior county title in Kilkenny yesterday, throttling a game James Stephens outfit and running out easy winners in the end.

Kilruane MacDonagh ruthlessly ended Clonoulty-Rossmore’s reign as Tipperary SHC champions yesterday, but they may well have lost two of their county stars in the process.

Nemo Rangers upped the ante big time in the second half to send champions St Finbarr’s packing in appalling weather conditions at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday. The incessant rain made this Cork SFC quarter-final a real slog before the 2017 champions got the formula right after a sluggish enough opening half.

Tipperary secured an immediate return to the Senior ranks after Aisling McGuigan and Aisling McCarthy goals and eight points from the outstanding Aishling Moloney gave them a second TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate title in three years.

All-Ireland minor winning manager Bobbie O’Dwyer had laid much of the credit for the turnaround in Cork’s football fortunes at the doorstep of Conor Counihan.

Cork manager Bobbie O’Dwyer hailed the resilience of his troops for not throwing in the towel when Galway goaled three minutes into second-half stoppages.

“Momentum is a very important thing,” begins Cork minor football manager Bobbie O’Dwyer.

Moments after Kilkenny had accounted for a gallant but tiring Tipperary with a last-quarter score rush, Ann Downey was enjoying the luxury of looking forward to watching the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Semi-Final between Cork and Galway.

Sending offs can have major influences on a game.

Moments after Kilkenny had accounted for a gallant but tiring Tipperary with a late rush of scores, Ann Downey was enjoying the luxury of looking forward to watching the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship semi-final between Cork and Galway.

Refereeing Kilkenny-Tipperary Championship games this decade were like walking on a cliff edge.

Tipperary dual player Orla O’Dwyer will line out for the Premier camogie team on Saturday evening, but will miss the county’s last-four ladies football fixture on the same day.

The Tipperary ladies footballers requested their semi-final be put back a week to avoid O’Dwyer having to choose between codes, but when this request was not acceded to, the football management took the decision out of O’Dwyer’s hands and released her to play camogie this Saturday.

Cork minor manager Bobbie O’Dwyer knows how quickly Cork football’s restorative summer has trickled all the way down to the next generation.

This clash saw Limerick progress to the next round of the FAI Cup at the expense of a brave Cobh Wanderers effort.

Tipperary's experience of knockout camogie showed as they ground out victory in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Quarter-Final at Semple Stadium.

When Cork blitzed Tipperary in the second half of a 15-point defeat at CIT on June 22, it was the third serious setback in a horror week that had begun with Nicole Walsh being airlifted from The Ragg unconscious and was followed by the resignation of manager Bill Mullaney for health reasons.

Unlike a fortnight ago when the Cork hurlers and footballers were forced to line out at Croke Park on separate days, common sense, thankfully, has prevailed this weekend. Two Cork teams playing back-to-back at the one venue on the same day. Scheduling can be rather simple when done right.

In the scrum for funds that characterises an increasingly competitive charity sector, having an ambassador of the calibre of Peter O’Mahony is just what the doctor ordered.

A coroner reissued recommendations made at a previous inquest that ‘mirrored’ the case of a man who died following surgery to remove a lump from his neck.

It didn’t garner any headlines but Jim Gavin also hit the centenary mark in this year’s Leinster championship.

Four days after Kerry annexed the Munster senior and minor titles for a seventh consecutive summer, it was the turn of the county’s junior team to step into the spotlight, Jimmy Keane’s side retaining the provincial silverware for the sixth year in-a-row.

Bobbie O’Dwyer’s recollection is forensic, and not because his son was Cork corner-back in Tralee that night.

In the second of a Championship series, hurlers chat about their hands the injuries sustained in the service of club and county. This week, All-Ireland winning Clare captain Anthony Daly talks to Michael Moynihan.

Another afternoon of liquid wristwork and fluid movement from Tipperary yesterday put Waterford to the sword with commendable economy.

Jason Forde hit 1-9 as Tipperary shook off a sluggish mid-game spell to leave 14-man Waterford on the brink of a Munster Championship exit.

John Meyler has reacted to Cork’s defeat to Tipperary by making four changes for tomorrow’s Munster SHC Round 2 in the LIT Gaelic Grounds.

With a landscape straight out of a Constable painting this historic Brinny farmhouse on seven acres is picture perfect, writes Tommy Barker.

Michael Moynihan picks out five notable observations as Tipperary, Clare, Kilkenny, and Galway started their All-Ireland Hurling Championship campaigns with wins.

Tipperary claimed their first win over Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in seven years but perhaps, more importantly, their first victory in Munster since 2016 in front of a 30,274 crowd.

18 nominees across six categories have been shortlisted ahead of the annual gala on May 24.