Championship meetings between Cork and Tipperary have been spinning a mythology for over a century. Michael Moynihan took a closer look at some of those myths.

Two-time All-Ireland winner Michael Cleary believes serious consideration should be given to cementing Semple Stadium as the permanent venue choice on Munster hurling final afternoon.

Tipperary 1-24 Waterford 0-5: Where Tipperary provided further grounds for optimism here with the vitality and confidence of their display, Waterford’s total ineptitude raised the question of whether they remain fit to dine at championship’s top table.

TOM SEMPLE’S FIELD

A MUNSTER property auction is set to offer 30 lots to investors and buyers in Cork on October 2, following hot on the heels of a very successful Allsops auction last week that netted an all time high of €54m from 194 lots.

The roar of 60,000 "possessed" hurling followers rolling onto your shoulders at ground level in Semple Stadium; Johnny Crowley sipping a pint of Heineken through a straw while waiting to have his broken nose attended to following the 1987 Munster final replay and Denis Mulcahy’s "bone-crunching" tackle on Colm Bonnar in 1992.

Cork and Tipperary face each other in the All-Ireland semi-final on Sunday. Calm down, there are a few sleeps to go yet. To get you in the mood, we examine, in quotations, the relationship between the counties.

It was four years ago when Tony Browne sat down with this writer for a long chat about his passion.

THREE working bank premises, all on long leases to AIB, hit the market this week as investment buys through Irish and European and GVA Dónal Ó Buachalla.

TWO Thurles hotels are up for sale this month — one is famed in GAA lore and heritage, the other, larger, a trading entity, and just on the edge of the Tipperary town.

The birthplace of a sports movement with more than 1m members in 2,300 clubs across five continents and with an annual turnover of €50m is set to sell this year — for about €750,000.

All-Ireland winning Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett and international boxing star Matthew Macklin have set their sights on purchasing Hayes Hotel in Thurles — the birthplace of the GAA.

Gardaí are hoping to bring charges in connection with three stabbings since Christmas Eve which left two men dead, one in intensive care, and another seriously injured.

“Down the Mardyke through each elm tree” is one of the great Irish lyrics just as Slievenamon’s “To see our flag unfurled”.

A 24-year-old Tipperary man has been given a 21-year jail sentence for four unprovoked assaults in Thurles in February of last year.

Wednesday's €10.6m Lotto jackpot has been collected today.

He’s been a part of two All-Ireland winning teams but rumours abounded last night that Lar Corbett was part of a two-man team that scooped the €10.6m top prize in the lottery.

There was one winner of last night's €10,613,747 Lotto jackpot.

There’s a hackneyed old cliché which should be clipped out of the storyboards of those who create adverts, TV shows and movies.

Workers get a lesson in how money talks

A man believed to have carried out an attack outside a nightclub which led to the death of another man was arrested under the Public Order Act before emerging as the chief suspect for the assault.

A 25-year-old man has died after being assaulted in Co Tipperary at the weekend.

THE family of an “unassuming, well-liked” man who was critically injured in an unprovoked attack after a night out were last night keeping a vigil at his bedside while he remained on life-support.

Gardaí are continuing to question a 22-year-old man over a serious assault in Thurles, County Tipperary yesterday.

A man was fighting for his life last night after an assault in the centre of Thurles in the early hours of yesterday morning.

ONCE, at a football match in Thurles, I saw the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and it shook me to my core.

Two barmen have denied the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication almost three years ago.

Two barmen are due to go on trial tomorrow for the manslaughter of a British man who died from acute alcohol intoxication.

THE truth eventually comes out.

IT feels, this week and in this country, like someone should gently place a Sinatra record under a record player stylus as we bob downstream together towards oblivion.

WITHIN minutes of the referee’s final whistle sounding from the Croke Park pitch, the cars were motoring around Liberty Square in Thurles with horns blaring, passengers shouting “up Tipp” out the windows and thoughts already turning to the team’s homecoming.

THE trial of two barmen charged with the manslaughter of a man who died from alcohol intoxication has been adjourned.

A brothel keeper who beat his prostitutes and threatened to starve one if she did not bring in more business has entered a guilty plea in the middle of his trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court today.

An alleged brothel keeper employed his fiancé as a prostitute, beat her and made her lick his runners, it has been claimed at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

AN alleged brothel keeper threatened to starve one of his prostitutes unless she brought in more business, it has been alleged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An alleged brothel keeper threatened to starve one of the prostitutes working for him unless she brought in more business, it has been alleged at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

THE GAA will conclude their 125 celebrations on Sunday in Thurles, on the anniversary of the day the Association was founded in Hayes Hotel in 1884.

The Revenue Commissioners have said their tax checks and investigations brought in €145m in the three months to the end of December.

A robbery atttempt was made at the Ulster Bank on Liberty Square, Thurles, at about 5pm his evening.

THIS COLUMN bows to no man in its admiration for all things Tipperary. Clonmel Chardonnay. Liberty Square. Horse and Jockey. The list goes on and on, and is now joined by The Book.