Former GAA PRO Danny Lynch claims the Sky media rights deal will do “irreparable damage” to the organisation.

The Limerick intermediate team is still without a manager, but, in a compromise that was backed unanimously at a meeting of the county board in Claughaun GAA club last night, the dispute that had threatened to throw the county back into the chaos it had witnessed only three years ago was finally resolved.

Limerick GAA vice-chairman Pat Heffernan says he feels like he has been “kicked in the pants” after fellow officers decided not to back his recommendation that Tom Ryan be installed as the county’s new intermediate hurling team manager.

Former Limerick senior hurling manager Tom Ryan has accused Shannonside officials of “character assassination” as they prepare to overrule his proposed appointment as the county’s new intermediate hurling team boss.

A proposal to replace Tom Ryan as Limerick’s intermediate hurling manager — but for him to work instead as a selector — has been rejected by the sub-committee that proposed him for the top job.

Watergrasshill 3-17 Mallow 2-09

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.

Former Tipperary star John Leahy has been appointed as Mullinahone’s minor manager after last season’s county title-winning boss Johnny Kennedy suddenly withdrew his candidacy.

LIMERICK captain Gavin O’Mahony believes John Allen is the perfect choice to replace Donal O’Grady as senior hurling manager.

WHILE Donal O’Grady had always insisted his commitment to the Limerick senior hurling management position was for one year only, his announcement yesterday that he would not be continuing still took many people by surprise.

Donal O'Grady's tenure as Limerick senior hurling manager came to an end last night.

IMPLACABLE November, an exaggeration?

TRIUMPH for Donal O’Grady’s Limerick in this Allianz Hurling League Division Two opener in Ennis yesterday, disaster for Clare and their manager, Ger O’Loughlin.

GAA legend Phil Bennis has accusedLimerick GAA chiefs of ‘bully-boy tactics’ in a growing dispute over a motion to convention to create a separate county hurling board.

A LIMERICK GAA chief is convinced “lessons have been learned” from the hurling controversy which rocked the county throughout 2010.

NEW Limerick senior hurling boss Donal O’Grady has invited 80 players to trials on Sunday as he begins the process of selecting his 2011 squad.

DONAL O’GRADY’S appointment as Limerick senior hurling boss was last night unanimously ratified by club delegates at a specially arranged board meeting with county chairman Liam Lenihan urging everyone in the county ‘to give unconditional support’ to the new manager and also claiming that ‘the day for agendas was gone’.

Donal O'Grady has tonight been officially appointed as the Limerick senior hurling manager for 2011, succeeding Justin McCarthy in the position.

DONAL O’GRADY last night spoke of the ‘talent and potential’ in Limerick hurling as he bids to restore the fortunes of a county rocked by controversy in 2010.

LIMERICK hurling legend Richie Bennis believes the appointment of new manager Donal O’Grady will ‘automatically heal the wounds’ created by this year’s standoff on Shannonside.

Donal O'Grady is in line to be named Limerick's new senior hurling manager, as the Shannonsiders bring to an end their two-month search to find a successor to Justin McCarthy.

NEVER were three cheers for a losing team rendered more heartily to the heavens than at chilly Croke Park on Saturday evening as Blackrock captain, Brendan Hennessey called for tribute to be paid to a gallant effort by St Colmcille’s of Tyrone in this All-Ireland club junior hurling final.

MAGICAL days for Limerick’s Blackrock GAA club ahead of tomorrow night’s All-Ireland Club JHC final against St Colmcille’s of Tyrone.

Kerry hurling manager Mossie Carroll has stepped down from the post.

KERRY hurling manager Mossie Carroll has stepped down from the post.

The Jack O'Connor-led Kerry senior management team was officially ratified at last night's meeting of the Kerry County Committee.

FORMER Cork senior hurling captain Fergal McCormack has declared for Kerry, joining former Limerick captain James O’Brien who transferred to the Kingdom earlier this week. Both players have declared for Kerry under the rule which allows up to five ‘outside’ players to join weaker hurling counties.

GOODWILL to all men — even those of a Fine Gael or Labour persuasion — has broken out in the office of a leading FF strategist in Limerick.

Bride Rovers 2-13 St. Finbarr’s 0-9

ALL eyes yesterday were on Enniskeane, where Na Piarsaigh lined out against O’Donovan Rossa in the Evening Echo Cork SFC with three Ó Ailpín brothers in the black and amber - Teu, Aisake and All-Ireland hurling captain Seán Óg.

Cork 1-21 Limerick 1-10

NEW Limerick hurling boss Padjoe Whelahan says he will continue to look out for “intelligent hurlers” to drive the county to Championship success.

A LEADING GAA official has warned there can be no repeat of the infamous “Martin Johnson snub”, if Croke Park is opened up to other sports.

NOEL BERKELEY (Dundrum South Dublin) may be going for his seventh win in Ireland’s premier road race, the Nike Ballycotton 10, on Sunday, but his enthusiasm hasn’t waned.