Dublin forward Niamh McEvoy sounded a warning to her teammates that they still have a lot of improving to do if they are to retain their TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship, following a show of force against Waterford at the weekend in O’Moore Park, Portlaoise.

Dublin manager Mick Bohan praised his squad’s experienced players as they got back to winning ways in their Lidl NFL clash with Tipperary.

Cork 2-12 Tipperary 1-10: Relief was the chief emotion in the Cork camp in Ardfinnan at 3.30pm on Saturday after two first-half goals sent them on their way to a battling win over Tipperary.

Imagine celebrating Ireland’s national apostle, not in March, but in high summer.

Tributes have been paid to Ireland's three Hurricane Ophelia victims as the family of Michael Pyke attended his funeral today.

It was a one-day event, with lifelong consequences for the families of its three victims, and ongoing ramifications for households, schools, transport, businesses, the health service, forestry, and farming.

The scale of Ophelia’s devastation was particularly felt in Waterford, Tipperary, and Dundalk, where three people lost their lives as a result of the storm.

Larry Mize hit one of the greatest golf shots of all time to clinch the 1987 Masters, chipping in from off the 11th to defeat Greg Norman on the second extra hole.

A new era for post-primary football in Skibbereen begins this afternoon in the opening round of games of the Corn Uí Mhuirí.

Killian Young lay writhing on the turf of Fota Island Resort, his season over, his inter-county future in danger.

There were chaotic scenes in a small Tipperary village yesterday morning after a tractor went out of control and smashed into four parked cars before grinding to a stop on top of a small hatchback.

The Hollinwell is developing into one of the very best point-to-pointers on the circuit and the British-bred recorded his fourth success of the season by destroying the opposition with his owner/trainer Eugene O’Sullivan’s 17-year-old son Eoin in the open lightweight at yesterday’s Duhallow Foxhounds Kildorrery fixture at Rockmills Stud.

Tipperary native Brian Lonergan fulfilled a long-standing ambition when his tricolour appeared on live TV during Sunday’s NFL clash between the San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks at Candlestick Park.

Gardaí in Tipperary are asking for the public's help in locating Hayley Glavin from Ardfinnan, who has been missing from her home since Monday night.

THE CELTIC CAMINO IN WATERFORD AND TIPPERARY

WHEN Barry O’Brien took over as Tipperary county board chairman in December 2008, he stormed into office with a passionate address to delegates at the Premier County’s annual convention.

IT wasn’t easy on the eye but that won’t bother Galway as they edged past Cork in their Gala All-Ireland senior camogie semi-final replay at Semple Stadium yesterday, 0-10 to 0-9, dashing Cork’s three-in-a-row ambitions.

Offaly booked their place in a third successive All-Ireland with a hard-fought victory over Derry in the Gala All-Ireland intermediate camogie semi-final at Clones. They will play Wexford in three weeks, who just edged past Limerick in Ardfinnan.

THE GAA dual player may be considered a dying breed but Brian Fox is doing his best to buck that trend. Three months into the season and the Éire Óg-Annacarty man has been dividing his time in a three-way fashion.

Forty jobs are to be lost at an insulation manufacturer company in Co Tipperary.

Mullingar Shamrocks clubman Simon Quinn will make his senior championship bow for Westmeath in tomorrow afternoon's GAA All-Ireland football championship qualifier against Tipperary at Ardfinnan, throw-in at 3pm.

Tipperary manager John Evans has made five changes to his team for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier against Westmeath at Ardfinnan (throw-in 3pm).

Next Saturday will see an incredible 23 senior inter-county football and hurling matches take place around the country, including the All-Ireland SHC qualifier double header of Cork against Galway and Waterford playing Offaly in Thurles.

GARDAÍ in Cahir are appealing for information on a road crash that claimed the life of a 20-year-old local man late on Wednesday night.

WEXFORD clinched promotion — and a place in the NFL Division Three final — after a facile 2-16 to 0-15 victory over Louth at Wexford Park yesterday.

Tipperary 0-12 Wicklow 0-10

Kerry 0-15 Tipperary 2-7, Ardfinnan

Limerick's footballers got their season off to a winning start when they proved far too strong for Tralee IT in a 2-11 to 1-07 victory at Moyvane this afternoon.

THE man who fell into the River Suir in Cahir on Saturday night had been married for less than a year, it emerged last night.

A GANG who attacked a garda with an iron bar in south Tipperary may have been on their way to an intended robbery.

CHAMPIONS DLS Waterford open the defence of their Harty Cup title with a tricky local derby clash against Waterford Colleges at Walsh Park tomorrow.

THE prestigious Everglades Film Festival in South Africa is the next stop for an award-winning community film made in south Tipperary on a near-zero budget.

Saturday's Tommy Murphy Cup defeat for Tipperary against Clare marked Declan Browne's last inter-county game as the two-time All-Star has decided to retire from top level football.

A poor turnout at training last night could mean Paidí Ó Sé's tenure as Clare football manager will soon be over.

The draw for the opening stages of the 2007 Tommy Murphy Cup has been made with Offaly, losers to Dublin in yesterday's Leinster SFC semi-final, handed a tricky trip to Wicklow in the first round.