David Power will be confirmed as Tipperary’s new U21 football team manager later this month, with former Finn Harps soccer manager Charlie McKeever replacing him in the minor job.

TIMOTHYS STANCE, a January puppy owned by Timothy Carr & Martin Scanlon of Listowel and trained in Macroom by Liam O' Callaghan took the featured Derby Trial Stake at Bandon & Careys Cross yesterday.

PROPOSALS to introduce a two-tier hurling championship at senior level in Tipperary for 2004 have stirred up a hornet’s nest among a number of the county’s leading clubs.