Champions Thurles Sarsfields set down a marker for those aspiring to take their title from them when they romped to a 5-32 to 0-7 win over Carrick Swans in their opening game in defence of the Tipperary senior hurling title at Cashel.

In the first 15 minutes of this Fitzgibbon Cup clash at the DCU Sportsground yesterday, GMIT displayed the form that has many rating them dark-horses for glory this year.

A STRONG second-half was enough to see Nenagh CBS upset the odds and surge past Waterford’s De La Salle in an entertaining Harty Cup quarter-final in Clonmel yesterday.

JD Sports owner John David Group today cheered investors with signs that a turnaround drive was shaping up the British business.