Dublin will hope to perform this evening but Tipp should win, while Wexford Park will be electric for Limerick’s visit, writes Anthony Daly.

Tipperary hurling star John O’Dwyer doesn’t expect people from the county will turn out in their droves to support the footballers in their August 21 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.

Tipp’s kickout strategy must be on the money tomorrow. It sprang the odd leak against Cork, writes Declan Browne.

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The Waterford County Board have taken the extraordinary decision to cancel all of the senior hurlers’ training until after the May Bank Holiday weekend.

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Tipperary GAA chairman Sean Nugent has accused the Gaelic Players Association of hampering his county’s fundraising initiatives in the USA.

There is no cap on senior Tipperary team training sessions, insists county secretary Tim Floyd.

Tipperary chairman Sean Nugent has launched a stinging attack on the Football Review Committee ahead of the Premier County’s annual convention this evening.

A delighted Shane McGrath took to Twitter following Mayo’s win over Dublin last month.

London club Kilburn Gaels retained the Tom Semple Cup at the International Hurling Festival in Thurles at the weekend, beating Dunboyne of Meath in the final by 2-7 to 0-9.

The Championship?

Lar Corbett’s dramatic hurling u-turn was completed last night when he rejoined the Tipperary senior hurling panel for training in Thurles.

North Tipperary referees will meet tonight to discuss their options as their stand-off with the county board continues.

Tipperary GAA chiefs have once again been left red-faced by the Munster Council after provincial top brass overruled a decision to relegate Borrisokane from the county senior hurling championship.

Munster chief executive Pat Fitzgerald had questioned whether council funding given to Clare and Waterford for their stadia was actually spent on the intended purposes.

TIPPERARY manager Declan Ryan and his backroom team stood firm last night in the wake of Lar Corbett’s shock decision to quit the county’s senior hurling squad.

Tipperary GAA officials plan to seriously cut spending on inter-county teams by €175,000 this year to help ease the Premier’s financial crisis.

OUTGOING chairman Barry O’Brien admitted last night that Tipperary GAA’s 2011 financial accounts make for grim reading and represent a “serious problem.”

TIPPERARY secretary Tim Floyd lashed the Munster Council for a lack of financial support towards development work at Dr Morris Park, Thurles.

THIS being the off-season, the days and weeks tend to be pockmarked with talk of those stepping away from the carousel that is the inter-county scene, but Brendan Cummins intends staying on for one more spin at the very least.

HOW did Waterford recover from their Munster final humiliation?

HE wasn’t amongst the 16,700 patrons who filed through the turnstiles in the Gaelic Grounds last Sunday; instead he had to keep tabs on the action from Portlaoise Garda Station where he was working a shift.

TOMMY HEFFERNAN scored 2-8 as Nenagh Vocational School crushed Tipperary rivals Scoil Ruain in yesterday’s Munster Vocational Schools Senior B semi-final clash at Dr Morris Park, Thurles.

IT’S the game that just doesn’t want to be played. For the second time in just three days the eagerly awaited opening round NHL clash between Tipperary and Kilkenny has fallen foul of the weather.

All-Ireland champions Kerry, along with Limerick and Tipperary, progressed through to tomorrow's quarter-finals of the McGrath Cup following preliminary round victories this afternoon.

PATRICK CRONIN is set to miss Cork’s entire National Hurling League campaign after suffering a serious knee injury. Cronin will be out of action for a minimum period of three months but it is hoped he may be able to make a return before Cork’s Munster SHC opener against Tipperary in Páirc Ui Chaoimh on May 31.

Tonight’s McGrath Senior Football Cup clash between Tipperary and University of Limerick, due to be played in Dr Morris Park, Thurles, has been postponed.

FEARS remain that the provincial pre-season competitions may have to be scrapped due to adverse weather conditions, despite the first inter-county action of the year starting tonight with two preliminary round games in the McGrath Cup.

The first weekend of senior inter-county football in 2010 has been decimated by the severe cold snap, with the Munster Council joining their Connacht, Leinster and Ulster counterparts in calling off their scheduled games.

LAST year’s beaten quarter-finalists Templemore CBS secured their place in the knockout stages of the Dr Harty Cup yesterday with an eight-point victory.

MUNSTER Council chiefs have undertaken a major ticket push ahead of Sunday’s senior hurling championship opener between Tipperary and Cork (Semple Stadium, 4pm, RTÉ Two).

THESE are busy times for Toomevara GAA PRO Tommy Shanahan.

THE 18th Arrabawn Co-Op All-Ireland U16 hurling championship will be held in Tipperary this weekend. Twelve counties will take part with the holders, Galway, bidding for three in a row.

AS the inter-county GAA season emerges from winter hibernation, Brendan Larkin and Therese O’Callaghan canvassed football and hurling managers on their close season training regime.

ST FLANNANS get a quick chance to atone for last week’s Harty Cup defeat when they play Thurles CBS in the opening round of the Dean Ryan Cup at Nenagh tomorrow.