Nenagh CBS 4-18 Thurles CBS 0-14: Holders Thurles CBS crashed out of the Dr Harty Cup after their Tipperary rivals Nenagh CBS produced a devastating second-half performance in Templemore yesterday.

St Francis College, Rochestown 1-12 Thurles CBS 2-12:

LIT Tipperary 1-25 IT Tralee 2-09

Skill and discipline are the main ingredients in any successful side but top class work-rate and effort are also vital components.

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.

What a game to end the provincial senior hurling season in Munster.

Of the two teams in tomorrow’s Munster club final the club most hurling people would be most aware of is Thurles Sarsfields.

Padraic Maher is one of the best hurlers in the country at the moment and has the medal haul to prove it.

The first title John Mullane ever won with De La Salle was a Waterford senior hurling championship medal, in 2008.

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

They won in a shootout yesterday, they chiselled out a win a defensive battle against Kilmallock — any which way, Thurles Sars will find a way to win, says manager Seamus Quinn.

Newmarket-On-Fergus 0-10 De La Salle 1-10

Tomorrow’s Semple Stadium semi-final is the tale of two teams in search of redemption.

It’s hard writing about this game. Having watched Thurles Sarsfields up close from my role with Kilmallock, we’ve tried to move on from the defeat.

For those who believe that Lar Corbett isn’t committed to his club, Thurles Sars, a read of his superb autobiography All In My Head should shatter any such misconceptions.

You know that warm feeling hurlers talk about when the clock changes at the end of March, when they get the extra hour in the evening, and the smell of freshly mown grass is everywhere?

Thurles Sarsfields 1-21 Drom & Inch 2-15

The harder you’re made to work the more you appreciate the reward — that was the sentiment of Thurles Sars manager Seamus Quinn after this highly entertaining Tipperary SHC final.

Give club players a break, have an open draw and play off the entire All-Ireland Club championship before Christmas — so says Kilmallock manager Tony Considine as he prepares his side for their first round Munster championship game against Tipperary champions Thurles Sars or Drom-and-Inch on October 28.

The Cinderella club, that’s Eire Óg Annacarty in the Tipperary senior hurling championship semi-finals in Semple Stadium on Sunday.

Lar Corbett has broken his silence after withdrawing from the Tipperary panel.

EARLY in 1991, Ken Hogan came home from training one evening to find visitors from Offaly who wanted him to coach their team.

THE departure of champions Thurles Sarsfields at the semi-final stage of the Tipperary senior hurling championship has left Drom & Inch and Clonoulty-Rossmore in tomorrow’s decider, and each will fancy their chances.

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

LAR CORBETT is standing in the Páirc Uí Chaoimh boardroom, fielding questions after scoring four goals in a Munster final.

IN THE flesh Pádraic Maher of Tipperary incarnates purpose and intent, even after a Munster senior hurling semi-final.

TIPPERARY U21 boss Ken Hogan feels greater consideration should be given to the scheduling of the Munster hurling championships, as his charges prepare to face Waterford in tonight’s provincial quarter-final — just three days after the county senior side defeated Cork.

THE truth eventually comes out.

THERE was a poignant moment before Sunday’s Munster club SHC final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, as referee John Sexton blew his whistle to end an impeccably observed minute’s silence to respect the memory of another John Sexton, his father, who had been buried the previous day.

DE LA Salle’s heavy defeat to Portumna in the All-Ireland club hurling final of 2009 is the motivating force behind the Waterford club this year, according to captain Ian Flynn.

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

MICHAEL GLEESON was in the centre of Páirc Uí Chaoimh, eyes fixed on the De La Salle players ascending the steps to where the Munster Club SHC cup was about to be presented.

THE winning manager was a little detached as the celebrations began yesterday. When De La Salle’s captain, Ian Flynn, paid tribute to Michael Ryan the man in the bainisteoir’s bib gave a nod to the podium but didn’t go overboard.

WHAT a difference two weeks makes. A couple of Sundays ago, in the semi-final, the Tipperary champions put their bodies on the line, gave everything possible to get the win over Kilmallock, in Kilmallock.

YOUR columnist has been colder than he was yesterday in Pairc Ui Chaoimh, but not often. Thurles Sars and De La Salle played in what Sylvia Plath called the light of the mind: cold and planetary.

IT WAS one of those crisp evenings we’ve had all this week: clear skies, not a hint of moisture in the air and temperatures in the red zone.

THE most striking difference between Thurles Sars and De La Salle is the number of county titles won — Sars have 31 in Tipperary and are top of the class, De La Salle have only two in Waterford.

PLAYING a far crisper brand of hurling, UCC outplayed CIT to win the Freshers Division 1 Hurling League final at CIT yesterday.

PADRAIC MAHER admits his Thurles Sarsfields side are still driven by the disappointment of last year’s Munster club exit to Newtownshandrum.

THURLES SARS had a much tougher battle than predicted in their Munster Club SHC semi-final at Kilmallock yesterday.

HE may be entering his 13th season, which some might regard as being unlucky, but Kilkenny County Board had absolutely no misgivings when re-appointing Brian Cody as senior hurling manager last night.