Cork will support the proposed introduction of a black card in hurling, at Annual Congress later this month.

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.

Tipperary showed all their class to come from behind and claim the two points on offer in Drogheda against Louth in Division 3 of the Allianz FL.

A battling 14-man Tipperary were fully deserving of a share of the spoils with Down in their opening game of the Allianz Football League Division 3 at Clonmel Sportsfield.

All-Star defender Cathal Barrett has raged at the rumours and inaccuracies he claims are often spread about Tipperary players, admitting he has a “fierce problem” with it.

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.

A little obsession isn’t always a bad thing — but by last winter, Barry Heffernan figured his own had perhaps cost him the chance of making it with Tipperary.

Martin Comerford will complete Brian Cody's set of selectors in a new-look Kilkenny backroom team.

Seamus Callanan says winning Hurler of the Year seemed a “distant dream” amid his slow return from back surgery last year.

Tipperary secured an immediate return to the Senior ranks after Aisling McGuigan and Aisling McCarthy goals and eight points from the outstanding Aishling Moloney gave them a second TG4 All-Ireland Intermediate title in three years.

When I was strolling out the Ennis Road in Limerick on Saturday evening, I met a few Tipperary fans already heading for home.

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

Paul Keane Wexford joint-captain Matthew O’Hanlon has insisted that the players want Davy Fitzgerald back and will gladly drive to Sixmilebridge again to beg him to stay on.

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.

It seems an unnecessary message to have to impart to an inter-county team, but Tipperary U20 hurling manager Liam Cahill is blue in the face telling his players to fight and graft all the way to the last whistle.

Martin Comerford has bemoaned Kilkenny’s “systems failure” following Richie Hogan’s red card in last Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

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.

It’s amazing the difference a win makes to your week, starting with the long drive home. You can’t wait for The Marty Squad, The Sunday Game, the next day’s papers, the next week’s podcasts.

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

Cathal Barrett says former Kilkenny players are "clutching at straws" by highlighting an incident in yesterday’s All-Ireland final where he caught Richie Hogan in the face with his hurley.

Sending offs can have major influences on a game.

Richie Hogan was late and well he knew it.

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 production of Hamlet with not one, but two princes.

As a gauge of how competitive the All-Ireland final was, the free-taking sequence for both sides tells an interesting story.

Moments after Kilkenny had accounted for a gallant but tiring Tipperary with a late rush of scores, Ann Downey was enjoying the luxury of looking forward to watching the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship semi-final between Cork and Galway.

As a gauge of how competitive the All-Ireland final was, the free-taking sequence for both sides tells an interesting story.

As rain and hail drenched the first half, it wasn’t an afternoon for ‘playing through the lines’

Kilkenny came good in the second half to return to the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Final for the sixth time in the last seven seasons.

Davy Fitzgerald believes a traditional shoot-out will suit Tipperary more than Kilkenny should it manifest itself in tomorrow’s All-Ireland final.

After more than eight years of this column, the arse long torn out of it, maybe it’s time to start taking requests.

Richard Stakelum spent the Tipperary-Wexford semi-final next to his brother, Pat.

There are match-ups all over the field that will be key. That’s the great thing about Tipperary-Kilkenny matches — both sides tend to go orthodox and are 15-on-15.

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

The good people at Teneo, the PR arm behind Bord Gais Energy’s sponsorship of the All-Ireland U-20 hurling championship, have quite the couple of weeks ahead of them.

It's starting to feel a lot like 2010 all over again for Tipperary who are closing in on another double of All-Ireland U-20 and senior hurling titles.

Tipperary's experience of knockout camogie showed as they ground out victory in the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Quarter-Final at Semple Stadium.

It’s nine years since Tipperary last made off with both the All-Ireland U21 and senior hurling titles, a feat Paddy Cadell wants to help repeat.

Given last Sunday night’s peculiar but surely forgivable digression by Derek McGrath and Dónal Óg Cusack had half the nation yearning for the return of the plain speaking of Ger Loughnane, it’s worth revisiting what the great Clare man had to say about the weekend’s two victors back in his final summers on our screens.

Kelly said Tipperary's refusal to resort to hitting long balls and chasing goals, as Kilkenny did in their Leinster final loss to Wexford, was the key as they confronted disappointing refereeing decisions, being reduced to 14 men, and Wexford's best efforts.

Liam Sheedy didn’t want to talk about Kilkenny. Which was fair enough.

Speaking on the Irish Examiner GAA podcast, panelists Ken Hogan and Anthony Daly agreed that the Leinster champions should do all they can to keep Davy in the south-east.