You wouldn’t normally associate Clare’s Cratloe Woods with the sun-soaked Costa del Sol but as David Moriarty watched the Tipperary footballers go through their paces, he was filled with a renewed sense of hope.

I was in the RTÉ radio booth in the cockpit of the Kinnane Stand yesterday, when the fourth official signalled there would be just one minute of injury-time.

Ollie Moran believes Allianz NHL Division 1A table-toppers Dublin have “recovered their mojo” with Ger Cunningham’s fresh eyes presiding over them in the capital.

Declan Hannon claims Limerick hurling would have been set back years had they lost to Wexford in Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final.

Liam Sheedy wants to see more Dublins in hurling as he embarks on his chairmanship of the games’ new review committee.

Kilkenny hurling legend Eddie Keher is looking forward to delivering his document on the game to the newly-formed committee headed up by Tipperary’s 2010 All-Ireland winning manager Liam Sheedy.

Cork chairman Bob Ryan has expressed relief the “Anthony Nash motion” has been postponed for this year.

It’s been a hectic week in Limerick with the end of John Allen’s term as senior hurling manager but tomorrow, at the Gaelic Grounds, attention turns to the senior hurling semi-finals, with Adare facing Doon (2pm) and Kilmallock meeting Na Piarsaigh (3.30).

Former Waterford hurling manager Michael Ryan confirmed last night that he is still interested in managing the county.

Limerick manager John Allen redirected any post-match praise for himself onto his players as they celebrated ending the county's 17-year Munster hurling famine.

Shane Dowling grew up “dreaming of a day like this”.

Holders Limerick have named a powerful side for tomorrow’s Munster U21 semi-final clash with Tipperary at the (Gaelic Grounds 7.30pm).

JOHN FITZGERALD will go forward for ratification as the new Limerick U21 hurling manager at a board meeting tonight with former senior star Ollie Moran set to fill a role as a selector in his management team.

EMMETS and Ahane will meet on Sunday in the Gaelic Grounds at 7.45pm after their Limerick SHC semi-final ended level yesterday, with neither side grabbing the initiative in a scoreless final 10 minutes.

KILMALLOCK were sensationally dethroned as Limerick senior hurling champions last evening by former kingpins, Patrickswell.

IN a way it’s fitting that Limerick and Waterford are scheduled to clash this Sunday.

THE news yesterday that star forward Andrew O’Shaughnessy, not yet 27, has quit inter-county hurling has come as a blow in Limerick, catching his inter-county team-mates — current and former — completely by surprise.

LIMERICK hurling boss Donal O’Grady received a major boost with the news that the players who refused to line out under his predecessor Justin McCarthy have made themselves available for 2011.

Former captain Damien Reale has stepped down from the Limerick senior hurling panel.

FORMER Limerick hurler Ollie Moran has blasted Justin McCarthy’s decision to cut 12 players from the 2009 panel describing the development as ‘shameful’.

Limerick's Ollie Moran has retired from intercounty hurling at the age of 33.

LIMERICK hurling veteran Ollie Moran last night called time on his 12-year intercounty career at the age of 33.

Speculation regarding Justin McCarthy's future as Limerick senior hurling manager was ended at last night's meeting of the Limerick Co Board.

LIMERICK veteran Ollie Moran has not decided whether or not he will don the green jersey next season.

1. TS and TN number-plates whizzed by – at 120kmph, if any gardaí are reading – as I drove to Dublin yesterday, and it struck me that this county was in a hurry.

Tipperary 6-19 Limerick 2-07

I KNOW every player wants to play in Croke Park, but this being an all-Munster clash, would it not have made more economic sense, for everyone, if Limerick and Tipp had tossed for home venue tomorrow?

Both Tipperary and Limerick make one change in personnel to their starting 15s for Sunday's All Ireland Senior Hurling Semi-Final.

BRENDAN MAHER will make his starting championship debut for Tipperary in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Limerick, after being drafted into the team by manager Liam Sheedy last night.

Ollie Moran has been added to the Limerick attack for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC semi-final clash with Tipperary (Croke Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

1. Davy Fitzgerald came to this game with a plan.

Limerick 0-17 Waterford 0-25

WE WERE expecting a Championship match in Thurles yesterday; when you land into Semple Stadium you expect a level of competition on a par with watching a couple of angry scorpions trapped in a bottle.

THE recent history of Limerick and Waterford in the championship suggests that anything is possible when the counties clash in Thurles tomorrow in the first of the Munster hurling semi-finals.

IT’S 50 years since Waterford won an All-Ireland. I didn’t see that one, but I did see many of those Waterford players, the likes of Tom Cheasty, Larry Guinan, Philly Grimes, Austin Flynn, Frankie Walsh, Ned Power, Seamus Power, Martin Óg Morrissey – they were big men, in every sense, great hurlers, part of a great hurling team.

FOR years they soldiered together for Limerick. Gary Kirby and TJ Ryan, saw action in two All-Ireland finals, 1994 and 1996, in which Limerick hearts were shattered.

BEFORE Joe and Henry, before Ring and Doyle, there was one man. Limerick’s Mick Mackey owned the 1930s in hurling.

OLLIE MORAN doesn’t want to end his career without winning at least a Munster hurling championship medal.

TIPPERARY and Limerick received massive pre-championship boosts last night as cousins Eoin Kelly and Ollie Moran made their first appearances of the 2009 season for their respective counties in a senior hurling challenge.

KILKENNY will be short ten of their All-Ireland winning squad for their opening Allianz NHL game against Galway at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

KILMALLOCK held off a late Garryspillane fightback to book their place in the quarter-finals of the Limerick senior hurling championship.

Clare 4-12 Limerick 1-16, Semple Stadium