ESSENTIALLY, yesterday’s press briefing at Allianz House in Dublin was all about hearing the views of Kilkenny’s Brian Cody and Tipperary selector Liam Sheedy on next Monday’s NHL final in Croke Park.

THE Vocational Schools bodies have been aware for several years there was ‘no guarantee’ of their finals continuing to form the curtain-raisers to the Allianz National League deciders, GAA president Sean Kelly said yesterday.