It’s not how the hell Tipperary have got here so much as why not. Here are 10 reasons behind their march to an All-Ireland semi-final...

They’re an obstinate bunch, Tipperary football folk. Small in number but big in pretty much everything else — it took three pleas from the PA announcer in Croke Park to convince them to leave the stadium long after the players had retired to their dressing room.

The ripples caused by Tipperary’s qualification for their first All-Ireland quarter-final have been large but on the Breffni Park pitch on Saturday, it felt like an intimate affair.

Brian Toomey is to join Dr Richard Newland as assistant trainer from next month.

Seamus McCarthy and Tommy Toomey have given their lives to Tipperary football. Days like thisfulfil dreams, even if some within the county are uneasy about the growing dual mandate.

Miracle jockey Brian Toomey is set to be in action at next week’s Galway Festival after trainer Phil Kirby confirmed Kings Grey an intended runner at Ballybrit.

Tipperary football board chairman Joe Hannigan says it is not set in stone that Peter Creedon’s replacement will be pulled from the outgoing backroom team.

Brian Toomey may not have got the win he craved on his fairytale return to riding but the inspirational jockey was just glad to be back in the saddle at Southwell two years on from a fall at Perth that left him dead for six seconds.

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Seven hundred and four days after suffering serious injuries in a fall at Perth, Brian Toomey has again been granted a professional jump jockeys’ licence.

This weekend the Tipperary footballers take on Waterford in the Munster championship, having come within a point of an early All-Ireland title in the U21 final. 

The chairman of the national referees development body insists the policing of verbal intimidation is not being ignored by match officials.

Tyrone legend Peter Canavan has expressed disappointment at the accusations of the Tipperary U21 football camp that the Ulster men adopted a cynical approach during Saturday’s All-Ireland decider.

Tommy Toomey called his players into the dressing room at Semple Stadium on the Tuesday evening after their historic All-Ireland U21 semi-final win.

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Tipperary U21 football manager Tommy Toomey believes the GPA’s proposal to lower the U21 grade to U20 is counter-productive.

Not for the first time this decade, Tipperary are setting themselves up to be the feelgood story of the football season.

The mini-truck carrying close to 30 Tipperary U21 footballers edged through the town of Templemore close to midnight.

Tipperary management insist Ian Fahey will play in the EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final against Dublin next Saturday.

Four players have walked out of the Tyrone squad in frustration at a lack of game time, in the latest sign of unrest in the Red Hand camp.

TIPPERARY boss Tommy Toomey will consult with Colin O’Riordan, the player’s parents and medical staff before making a call on the captain’s availability for the Munster U21 football final against Cork on April 9.

Tipperary 0-15 Clare 0-07: Tommy Toomey conceded his Tipperary U21 footballers will have to improve considerably to shock Cork in the EirGrid provincial decider.

A Munster senior title-winning hurler turned up at Ennis Garda Station last Christmas with his head bloodied and bruised after being struck by a beer glass and a stick.

Brian Toomey still faces several obstacles if he is to beat the odds and make a fairytale return to the saddle.

Cycling Ireland President Denis Toomey believes that an indoor velodrome would lead to more medals on the European and World stage after Kildare woman Caroline Ryan was the latest to medal at a major event over the weekend.

Chairman of Tandem Cycling Ireland and also chairman of the paracycling commission, Denis Toomey was appointed new president of Cycling Ireland at the Board’s AGM in Monaghan on Saturday.

Brian Toomey “continues to show positive signs of recovery” from serious head injuries he suffered in a fall at Perth on July 4.

Jockey Brian Toomey is out of a coma and can move his arms and legs after a fall at Perth racecourse had left him with serious injuries.

Investec Oaks runner-up Secret Gesture will not run in the Darley-sponsored equivalent at the Curragh on Saturday after suffering a setback.

Dawn Approach will clash with Toronado for a second time when the pair lock horns in the Qipco Sussex Stakes at Glorious Goodwood on July 31.

Jockey Brian Toomey remains in a “stable condition” after undergoing surgery on the serious injuries he sustained in a heavy fall at Perth last Thursday.

Racing last night rallied around another stricken Irish jockey, as Limerick’s Brian Toomey battled “life-threatening” injuries following a heavy fall in Scotland.

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Gun control supporters in the US Senate have won the first showdown over how to respond to the December school shootings in Connecticut, defeating an effort by conservatives to derail firearms restrictions before debate could even start.

The US Senate is ready to launch an emotion-charged debate on new gun restrictions, four months after the carnage at a Connecticut elementary school spurred President Barack Obama and Congress to address firearms violence.

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A collection described by historical author Tom Toomey as “the most detailed account and listing of material that I have come across in all my research into the War of Independence in Limerick City” highlights the militaria sale at Limerick Auction Rooms next Wednesday at 11.30am.

FOURTEEN points from out-half Craig Ronaldson in a 10-minute spell before the break sparked a Lansdowne revival that eventually consigned Old Belvedere to their third straight loss in Division 1A of the Ulster Bank League on the main pitch of the Aviva Stadium last night.