Readers know how the NFL draft works: In an effort to maintain competitive balance, teams which perform poorly this season get to choose better prospects coming out of college for next season. Michael Moynihan opens a similar draft for hurling counties.

It’s funny to consider how much talk there is about hands in Irish sport once you concentrate on it, writes Michael Moynihan

“People trained like alcoholics in those days. They didn’t like people to know they were training.”

Croke Park commercial and stadium director Peter McKenna has been overseeing operations at GAA headquarters for 16 years. And his excitement around All-Ireland final day remains as great as ever...

Jimmy Doyle had many great moment in his career but we narrow it down to five of the best.

The hurling world at large mourns the sad and unexpected death of Tipperary hurler extraordinaire Jimmy Doyle, but for the multitudes of people who knew him — team-mates and opponents at club, county and provincial level, friends, acquaintances — the grief is personal.

BIGGEST hurling story of 2015, thus far? No question there: Henry Shefflin’s retirement.

Sixty years ago, Tipperary had a youngster on the bench for one of the great Munster hurling finals.

Glen Rovers 3-15 Erin’s Own 0-18

Glen Rovers 3-18 St. Finbarr’s 2-15

AIB ALL-IRELAND CLUB SHC SEMI-FINAL

A total of 119 days separated Fermoy’s first game in this year’s Cork County IFC and their second, but they showed few ill-effects of the lay-off as they beat Cloyne by 11 points at Lisgoold on Saturday evening.

There was a possibility, transformed almost into an expectation in some quarters, that Blackrock and Glen Rovers would be propelled into a senior hurling relegation play-off.

Given how Glen Rovers had fared in front of goal in this year’s Cork senior hurling championship, a 16-point win over Cloyne at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday would not have been high on the list of expectations.

When Tipperary overtook Cork in the All-Ireland roll of honour in the early sixties they were backboned by the mighty men of Thurles Sarsfields, then the dominant club in the county.

Newmarket are full of surprises.

In the public memory, he’ll always be a moment.

Aghada 0-16Blackrock 0-12

FORMER Cork footballer John Miskella is to make a speedy return to GAA after his retirement through injury.

A STRONG first-half performance was crucial to Aghada’s progression past Blackrock in round two of the Cork IHC at Midleton last night.

SEPTEMBER 3rd 1961, All-Ireland hurling final and with time running out Dublin have Tipperary on the rack, stretching them all over Croke Park.

I AM looking at a photograph in the programme for the Tipperary-Kilkenny All-Ireland final of 1967 (priced, incidentally at an old shilling).

ONE Tipperary hurling legend led the tributes to another last night following the death, aged 80, of eight-time All-Ireland senior medallist John Doyle.

THEY may have won 26 All-Irelands, but last night Tipperary’s players and back-room staff came together with supporters to celebrate as if this year’s was their first.

He speaks softly but carried a big stick. Michael Maher was one of the greatest full-backs to ever play hurling. The Tipperary legend spoke to Michael Moynihan.

Limerick 1-16 Waterford 1-14

IT’S A long way from Balbriggan to Thurles, longer still if, like Michael Gleeson, you lived in one but pined for the other.

THURLES, the largest town in north Tipperary with a population of just under 8,000; birthplace of the GAA and home of Thurles Sarsfields, holders of 29 Tipperary senior county titles and leaders on the roll of honour.

FOR Conor O’Mahony and the newer members of the Tipperary hurling team, meeting Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh next Sunday will mean the fulfilment of a dream.