John Fogarty looks ahead to the latest instalment of Galway v Tipperary.

Starting as they mean to go on and carrying on where they left off in the league, Galway disposed of Dublin with all the comfort of seasoned assassins.

At around half six on Sunday evening, most of the Galway team were to be found licking ice creams outside Supermacs on the Old Ennis Road.

On the way home from the Gaelic Grounds yesterday, I was snaking my way out the Ennis Road in my car when I saw Conor Hayes at the side of the road.

After Clare were well beaten by Cork in the 1998 league semi-final in Thurles, myself, Fergie Tuohy, and ‘Sparrow’ O’Loughlin went back to Powers in Clarecastle.

Mary Immaculate 0-19 Limerick IT 0-14: Mary Immaculate manager Jamie Wall played down the favourite’s tag that has been thrust upon his side, but after Aaron Gillane fired them to a Fitzgibbon Cup derby win over LIT, the manager is confident his side can cope with any pressure that comes their way against IT Carlow.

Limerick IT 2-11, DCU 0-15: Limerick IT completed something of a smash-and-grab victory over DCU-Dóchas Éireann last night, with two second-half goals rescuing a three-point win for Davy Fitzgerald’s side.

Fitzgibbon Cup Semi-Final

Limerick IT v IT Carlow, LIT (A Kelly, Galway), 2pm

Limerick IT 1-19 DIT 1-13: Limerick IT registered their second successive win as they overcame DIT in their Fitzgibbon Cup, Group D clash at the Parnells ground in Coolock.

Limerick IT 1-21 UUJ 0-12:

After 140 minutes of pulsating hurling against Kilkenny that ended in defeat, things don’t get any easier for Anthony Cunningham and his Galway team, as they must now prepare for a do-or-die qualifier clash with Tipperary in front of the Sky Sports cameras at Semple Stadium next Saturday evening.

Galway 1-22 Laois 0-23

For the second time in 12 months Galway got the fright of their lives in the Leinster SHC as the Tribesmen carved out a two-point win over a determined Laois side in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise.

The Limerick County Board have confirmed they will appeal the result of last Sunday's All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship semi-final which was overshadowed by an incorrect decision by the Hawk-Eye score detection technology.

Former Ulster chairman Micheál Greenan claims the GAA has prostituted itself by giving consideration to make more stadiums available to another sport.

In 1996 Tipperary minor hurling manager William Maher captained the Premier to All-Ireland minor glory.

Galway boss Mattie Murphy described Paul Killeen’s sending-off in yesterday’s Electric Ireland All-Ireland MHC semi-final as “harsh in the extreme.”

Sure, there was a huge degree of personal satisfaction involved in watching Galway’s march to an All-Ireland senior hurling final but Mattie Murphy is not one to go shouting about his contribution from the rooftops.

Galway manager Mattie Murphy certainly knows a thing or two about minor hurling and reckons the Tribesmen’s true worth will be revealed in next month’s fascinating All-Ireland semi-final encounter with Tipperary.

Three key questions to be answered by the next generation this summer

RECENT seasons have been defined by the inconsistency of Galway senior hurling sides in the white heat of championship.

WHEN France won football’s World Cup in 1998 with a sprinkling of Arsenal players, an English tabloid famously produced the headline: Arsenal 3 Brazil 0.

Galway 1-21 Dublin 1-12

GALWAY minor boss Mattie Murphy has rewarded Dean Higgins and Jack Carr for their dazzling showings when introduced as substitutes in their semi-final win over Clare, by naming them in his starting 15 for tomorrow afternoon’s All-Ireland final against Dublin.

A fleet of national winners and Olympic athletes will gather in Dun Laoghaire in early October to decide Ireland's best sailor for 2002 in the Allianz ISA Helmsman Championship.