Our writers chat through the main talking points from the weekend’s Allianz League action.

When Liam Cahill took over as Waterford manager last autumn, his first act was to take out his axe and get chopping. A host of names were dropped but when that list included team-captain Noel Connors, and another high-profile casualty, Maurice Shanahan, much of the discussion focussed on Cahill’s reasoning behind those decisions.

Options, options, options. For all the pieties to be heard after NHL games, managers are keeping an eye out all the time for options.

Gaelfast, the €1m five-year initiative to bolster the engagement levels with the GAA in Belfast and the county under the stewardship of Paul Donnelly, has already seen foundations laid across all communities in the city.

A long day’s journey into night on Saturday, with Cork and Tipperary serving up an entertaining tussle that felt for a while as though it might never end.

When a losing manager — unprompted — describes a game as a tale of two halves the story writes itself.

Tipp versus Limerick. The first match of 2020. The last match of 2019 in an only very slightly parallel dimension, one not populated by Alan Kelly’s umpires.

Tipperary County Board posted a deficit of €371,596 for 2019 after its accounts were published at annual Convention in Thurles last night.

Liam Sheedy acknowledged Tipperary came up a little short late on in their one-point Co-Op Superstores Munster Senior Hurling League loss to Clare.

Eamon O’Shea, who came on board as part of the coaching set-up last season, has been handed a new role in the Tipp backroom team.

That 2020 campaign will officially begin this Sunday with the Co-Op Superstores Munster Hurling League game against Clare at MacDonagh Park, Nenagh, which will be broadcast live on the Irish Examiner Sport Facebook page.

Now that it’ll be yellow from next summer on, the sliotar should be a lot easier to track — but even with the advent of such a smart ball, there’s probably an even smarter solution when another Brian Hogan incident arises.

Sheedy guided the Premier County to victory over Kilkenny last August — nine years after overseeing their 2010 success.

From the front cover of Stephen Cluxton smiling up at a familiar friend in Sam Maguire, Sportsfile excels in capturing history throughout A Season of Sundays.

An inquest into the death a girl from Co Limerick - who died following a surgical procedure at University Hospital Limerick last year - is happening today.

Tipperary hurling boss Liam Sheedy has paid tribute to two-time All-Ireland winning defender James Barry, who announced his retirement yesterday.

Victorious Tipperary manager Liam Cahill hailed his team, especially their lighting start that included four goals inside the first 10 minutes.

Complacency or commitment not to blame for Tipp’s failure to retain All-Ireland crowns, says McGrath

Championship 2019: wonder after wonder. Here’s a few of the highlights from the reel.

Wednesday lunch-time and Eamon O’Shea is back at his desk. Has been back at work since early in the week. There was no homecoming for him.

Change…do any of us really like it?

It used be thought you couldn’t win anything with young players, until Alex Ferguson came along and turned that on its head with his team of tyros from the class of ’92.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Tipperary defender Ronan Maher intends embracing this latest All-Ireland success after failing to do so three years ago.

Not for the first and hopefully not for the last time, Seamus ‘Cheddar’ Plunkett once again flew in the face of the mainstream.

Thirty years on from Tipperary beating Antrim in the All-Ireland final, there was a strong Saffron influence running through the team for Sunday’s All-Ireland win over Kilkenny.

It wasn’t a Jordan Belfort-esque declaration but that wouldn’t be Liam Sheedy’s style.

Ken Hogan, Derek McGrath and Ger Cunningham review Tipp's All-Ireland triumph with Anthony Daly.

As Liam Sheedy said, the second goal three minutes into the second half was what made this game Tipperary’s.

There is a cracking Sportsfile picture of Liam Sheedy after the Munster Championship win over Clare.

One county is ecstatic this morning and one despairing, as is always the case after an All-Ireland final.

As hurling people, we live for big days like excited kids on our birthday, but the All-Ireland final is usually our Christmas Day, the day when we are entitled to expect — and usually get — that little bit more.

A final for the annals but certainly not for the ages.

Time and time again this year we have been treated to testimonials from Tipperary players as to the impact Liam Sheedy has had on this team.

Kilkenny were leading Tipperary by a point when Hogan made contact with the head of Cathal Barrett with a stray elbow along the Hogan Stand touchline.

Victorious Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy accepts Richie Hogan’s sending-off had “a huge bearing” on the All-Ireland final, but says he didn’t see the foul on Cathal Barrett that led to the red card.

A Kilkenny-Tipperary All- Ireland final — wonders never cease.

On October 7, 2010, a month after winning the All Ireland and stopping Kilkenny’s five-in-a-row, Liam Sheedy's Tipperary management team announced they were stepping down.

Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird has always acted as a sounding board for my thoughts on management and life in general.

Being a Clonmel man and a dual player, the natural assumption to make about Seamus Kennedy was that football would be his priority.

Brian Cody’s extraordinary longevity as manager of the Kilkenny hurlers throws up some fascinating statistics.

The ironies of Stephen O’Brien’s proposed, cumulative one-match ban are worth mentioning.

Liam Sheedy admits Tipperary’s Championship preparations this year were greatly helped by taking a dimmer approach to April’s club month.

Former Kildare manager Cian O’Neill has opened up on the intense pressure he put on himself during his four years in charge of his native county.