Tipperary 2-16 Kerry 0-8

If Sam doesn’t reside in Dublin next winter, the likelihood is that last week’s defeat to Tyrone will be pinpointed as the first blip when the season’s narrative is written, the first time Jim Gavin’s men revealed a chink in their armour.

Silvermines (Tipperary) 0-14 Ballyduff (Kerry) 0-08

Ballyduff (Kerry) 2-13 Ballybrown (Limerick) 0-14 (Aet)

Kerry 1-12 Kildare 5-17

Kilcummin booked their place in the third round of the Kerry SFC after overcoming Shannon Rangers in a tight encounter in Tarbert on Saturday night.

Derry were never troubled in this lacklustre affair at Celtic Park yesterday which leaves both sides mid-table in Division 2A.

Tipperary footballers are about to suffer a devastating pre-championship blow with the news star forward Barry Grogan is on the verge of moving to the US for work purposes.

Kerry secured their place in Allianz Hurling League Division 2A after this victory at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

Kerry put their troubles behind them yesterday when they travelled to Aughrim to pick up the first points of the league.

Shane Brick announced his return to inter-county hurling in some style yesterday, saving Kerry’s blushes in a Waterford Crystal Cup preliminary round match against IT Tralee at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

Cork boss Conor Counihan has made six changes for next Sunday’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary in Clonmel from the side that overturned CIT in last weekend’s semi-final.

“ALL for one and one for all,” the motto coined by Alexandre Dumas for his fictional Three Musketeers; it could instead have been coined for the very real hurling warriors of Effin.

THREE unanswered points in the final 10 minutes helped Ballyduff past Courcey Rovers at Cloughduv in the Munster IHC yesterday, a first hurling victory for a Kerry club in the provincial competition.

KERRY boss John Meyler is able to welcome star attacker Darragh O’Connell back for this evening’s clash against Westmeath in Semple Stadium at 5pm.

THREE in-a-row chasing Kerry put their Bord Gáis Energy All-Ireland U21BHC title on the line when they face Roscommon in this afternoon’s semi-final clash in Toomevara at 2pm.

CORK’S aspirations of winning this year’s Munster minor hurling championship remain intact, but Saturday night’s victory over Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh was not without anxiety.

THE Cork minor hurling selectors have made a number of changes ahead of tonight’s Munster Minor Hurling Championship semi-final play-off against Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 6.30pm).