Thurles Sarsfield 1-14 Kilcormac-Killoughey 1-20

Last Sunday’s Munster club SHC final ebbed and flowed throughout the first half with marvellous commitment, skill and scores.

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-21 De La Salle (Waterford) 1-16

I left home at 11am yesterday morning, in heavy rain, heading for Cork and the thought hit me — what were the Munster Council thinking when they fixed this game for a place that is neither here nor there for either Thurles Sars or for De La Salle?

Thurles Sarsfields were crowned AIB Munster Club SHC winners for the first time this afternoon after beating De La Salle in a keenly-fought final in Cork.

Thurles Sarsfields (Tipp) 2-20 Sarsfields (Cork) 2-15

This Munster club semi-final was a fine game of hurling between two good teams who battled throughout at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Thurles Sarsfields ran out 2-20 to 2-15 winners over Cork champions Sarsfields in this afternoon's AIB Munster Club SHC semi-final clash at Semple Stadium.

Tipperary cruised to victory over a disappointing Limerick side in the Munster IHC quarter-final in MacDonagh Park, Nenagh on Saturday.

THERE were two close calls but no upsets in the weekend’s Tipperary senior hurling championship.

De La Salle (Waterford) 0-9 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 0-8

THURLES SARS retained their Tipperary senior hurling title in dull and damp Semple Stadium yesterday, capping off a superb year for their four Tipperary All-Ireland-winning stars, but only after a testing final few minutes against a young Clonoulty-Rossmore side that will surely come again.

TIPPERARY GAA chiefs look set to investigate ugly scenes that developed after this Premier County SHC semi-final at Semple Stadium yesterday.

Newtownshandrum (Cork) 0-19 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 1-15

WE’RE in the dying embers of another long season but there’s still plenty to whet the appetite of hurling followers nationwide.

THE FAIRYTALE ended for Upperchurch Drombane in Semple Stadium yesterday, a season in which new ground was broken in the Tipperary SHC at both divisional and county level, and a tame ending it was.

ALL the excitement of the All-Ireland final put to bed, it’s back to serious club business in Kilkenny and Tipperary this weekend, the senior club championships in both counties at quarter-final stage with one exception.

THURLES, the largest town in north Tipperary with a population of just under 8,000; birthplace of the GAA and home of Thurles Sarsfields, holders of 29 Tipperary senior county titles and leaders on the roll of honour.

Clonoulty-Rossmore 0-17 Thurles Sarsfields 1-14

Kilkenny 1-11 Tipperary 0-11

Tipperary Under-21 manager Fr. Tom Fogarty has made one change to his side for today's Erin All-Ireland U-21 hurling final replay against Kilkenny (Semple Stadium, throw-in 3.30pm).

Tipperary 3-11 Cork 0-13

Thurles Sarsfields 1-17 Drom-Inch 0-15

Down 0-5 Tipperary 4-20

The Tipperary Under-21 hurling team to play Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds on Wednesday evening in the Munster semi-final has been announced with senior stars Diarmuid Fitzgerald, Shane Sweeney and Tony Scroope included in the line-up.

Toomevara 3-19 Thurles Sarsfields 3-16

FOUR final defeats in a row aren’t exactly exciting credentials, but Thurles Sarsfields carry that burden into tomorrow’s Tipperary SHC final against Toomevara in Semple Stadium.

Galway 2-19 Tipperary 2-16

TOMORROW’S clash of Galway and Tipperary in the first of the All-Ireland MHC semi-finals will be their fourth meeting this year.

TIPPERARY are chasing a hat-trick of titles when they play Cork in the Munster MHC final at Semple Stadium tomorrow (1.15 pm). The defending champions have made