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Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea has trimmed a number of players, including 2010 All-Ireland SHC medallist Paul Curran, from his squad ahead of this summer’s championship.

O’Shea has voiced his opposition to the proposal of the Central Council workgroup that All-Ireland hurling final replays take place six days after the drawn game.

Clare will meet Cork in the Waterford Crystal Cup semi-finals next weekend, following a slender 0-16 to 0-15 win over Tipperary at Sixmilebridge.

Waterford Crystal Cup

Former Waterford Crystal workers look set to accept a €178m solution to their long-running dispute with the State.

Four young Nigerian men will be sentenced later for their role in a street attack on nightclub goers and a DJ over three years ago.

Despite 39 years of work during which he paid about €78,000 in accumulated pension contributions into the retirement fund, Seán Maher was looking at a pension of €50 or €60 per week once he reached 65, thanks to the “double insolvency” that hit Waterford Crystal in 2009.

Tipperary 2-18 Dublin 1-11

Seconds out, round two.

Dublin 1-16 Tipperary 2-13

Tipperary 2-13 Dublin 1-16

Kilkenny and Galway have both made one change from their respective semi-final wins for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC final.

“Support for the team fell away at an alarming rate: hardly anyone turned up for some of the championship preparation games. In fact, the situation had got so bad that no one cared when or where the panel was holding their training sessions. Every other week, there was news of players being dropped from the panel or leaving through lack of interest. Injuries too were preventing any real progress being affected and, in the circumstances, the trip to Carrick-on-Shannon on June 23 to play Leitrim in the semi-final was one of hope rather than confidence.”

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.”

In the drawn game of this Harty Cup quarter-final a week ago Seamus Kennedy, one of the stars of Tipperary’s march to All-Ireland minor football honours, was the hero of the hour for Thurles CBS, his late-late injury-time point sending the game to a replay.

ALL-IRELAND minor football medallist Seamus Kennedy scored an equalising point in the 10th minute of stoppage time as Thurles CBS salvaged a replay from a gripping Dr Harty Cup quarter-final with Tipp rivals Nenagh CBS at Dolla yesterday.

JOY unconfined for Drom & Inch yesterday in Semple Stadium as they won their first Tipperary senior hurling title, edging out Clonoulty Rossmore by two points to get their hands on the Dan Breen Cup.

KEEPING Lar Corbett scoreless — it’s a winning formula.

THURLES SARSFIELDS stayed on course for a third successive Tipperary SHC title, seeing off the challenge of Loughmore-Castleiney by 3-17 to 2-16 in a thrilling quarter-final at Semple Stadium on Saturday.

WATERFORD corner-back Eoin Murphy was released from hospital yesterday after fracturing his skull in a club match last Friday night.

FAVOURITES St. Flannan’s College proved too strong for Thurles in this Harty Cup second round clash at sunny Nenagh yesterday.

Drogheda United v Cobh Ramblers

The first televised game of the season takes place in United Park on Saturday when Shamrock Rovers travel to take on champions Drogheda United, kick-off 5.30pm.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man who was arrested on Sunday night in connection with the Waterford investigation is still being held at Tramore Garda Station. He can be questioned for up to seven days, under the Misuse of Drugs Act.

A US judge has denied bail to an American student extradited from Britain on charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to equip al-Qaida fighters.

PETER LAMBERT has been through it all before.

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FINALLY, THIS weekend, Declan Browne finally steps onto the stage his talent has always deserved.

Galway 2-15 Tipperary 1-10

Tipperary Manager Tom McGlinchy has kept faith with the team which drew to Clare in last weekend's Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Football semi-final clash at Killarney.