Clonmel Commercials 1-13 St Joseph’s Miltown-Malbay 0-3, Clonmel

Clonmel Commercials 1-12 Moyle Rovers 3-5: Hot favourites Clonmel Commercials had to draw on all their reserves of self-belief to regain the Tipperary SFC title after a three-year gap when defeating neighbours Moyle Rovers in a thriller at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Clare 0-23

Limerick 3-14 Clare 2-15: Willie Griffin played a captain’s part in Thurles as Limerick’s intermediate hurlers got a memorable day off to a winning start.

Waterford Crystal Cup

Man United 3 Newcastle 1 Whether it is his decision to utilise Wayne Rooney in a deep-lying midfield role or take the unusual step of granting his players Christmas Day off, rarely a day goes by in this new era at Old Trafford without Louis van Gaal looking like the perfect man to restore Manchester United to their pre-eminent position in English football.

Newcastle 2 Chelsea 1

Premier League

West Ham United 1 Newcastle 0

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Newcastle United 1 Liverpool 0

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew is likely to be without striker Papiss Cisse once again for the Capital One Cup fourth-round trip to Manchester City.

Tottenham Hotspur 1 Newcastle United 2

Newcastle 1 Leicester 0

All the team news from around the grounds ahead of Week 2 in the Premier League - more to follow as it comes in.

Cork 4-17 Clare 2-20

The turnstiles were clicking merrily at the Gaelic Grounds last night for this Munster hurling U21 opening round match, so much so that throw-in was delayed 15 minutes, to 7.45pm, as 6,000 fans made their way in .

Newcastle 0 Tottenham 0

Newcastle United 0 Sunderland 3

Norwich 0 Newcastle 0

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew has Yoan Gouffran back available for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League home clash with Fulham, but there remain doubts over Mathieu Debuchy and Cheick Tiote.

Newcastle were today still awaiting news of Papiss Cisse’s situation with Senegal threatening to demand he does not play against Swansea tomorrow.

Clonmel Commercials 1-09 Thomas MacDonaghs 0-05

Clonmel Commercials 4-11 Loughmore-Castleiney 4-9 (AET)

Newcastle 1 Club Brugge 0

Newcastle boss Alan Pardew could welcome back key defenders Fabricio Coloccini and Steven Taylor for Sunday’s derby trip to Sunderland.

Newcastle 1 Norwich City 0

Everton 2 Newcastle United 2

Tim Krul is out of Newcastle’s Barclays Premier League trip to Everton on Monday night after suffering an elbow injury on international duty.

Newcastle Utd 1 Aston Villa 1

ARSENAL

Newcastle defender Ryan Taylor is out of Sunday’s Barclays Premier League clash with Aston Villa after suffering a knee injury.

Newcastle midfielder Cheick Tiote will miss out on tomorrow night’s Europa League play-off second leg clash with Atromitos as he continues his fight for fitness.

For almost seven months, it’s made for grim post-match viewing, never-ending re-runs of those bad days at the office, but finally Demba Ba can settle back and feast his eyes on a welcome reminder of what he does best.

Clare boss, Eamonn Fennessy described the dramatic conclusion to this pulsating tie as “heartbreaking”, after his young charges saw two massive decisions go against them, enabling Dublin to snatch the honours.

Clare manager Eamon Fennessy admitted considerable improvement is needed ahead of next month’s semi-final showdown with Leinster champions Dublin.

Not since 1955 have Tipperary won both Munster minor titles in the same year, but yesterday’s hurling win over Clare at Páirc Uí Chaoimh completed a double following the football victory against Kerry.

After Kilkenny’s weekend demolition job on highly-rated Dublin in the Leinster SHC semi-final many hurling pundits wondered if that was it, if everyone else is now just playing for second place.

Clare’s ambitions to claim a third consecutive Munster minor hurling crown remain intact after they swept past Cork in last night’s play-off tie in Ennis to set up a semi-final date with Limerick on June 29.

Gabriel Obertan will return to the Newcastle squad for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League trip to his former club Manchester United.

Gabriel Obertan will miss Newcastle’s home clash with Everton tomorrow through illness.

ALAN PARDEW saluted the performance of Newcastle striker Leon Best after his goal rescued a point in Saturday’s 1-1 draw at Aston Villa.

BEFORE the game at Loftus Road last night, Joey Barton was the main talking point for QPR and Newcastle fans.

REPUBLIC OF IRELAND striker Leon Best struck twice to fire Newcastle into the Premier League’s top six but Magpies boss Alan Pardew is desperate to add to his squad before the transfer window closes.