The Munster hurling championship should be run on a round-robin, home-and-away basis to provide more games for players and spectators, says Ger Loughnane.

As we look forward to the All-Ireland final on Sunday, we reminisce about some great ones gone by. Here we take a look at how Clare found Liam McCarthy after 81 years.

Pádraic ‘Podge’ Collins is part of a new breed of hurler to have blossomed in recent times.

It was a different world twenty years ago. Most counties knew their place in the GAA’s hierarchy.

On Thursday night, as Ger Loughnane left Cusack Park following Clare’s easy win over Cork in the Munster minor championship, one would presume the result would be a source of satisfaction.

SUCH was the turmoil of mayhem, madness and general swirling of Banners and Bodhrans in the old place that afternoon that you’re forgiven if you can’t recall what had happened a couple of hours earlier.

Ger Loughnane will have to wait another few days until it is known whether he will continue as Galway senior hurling manager into 2009.

IT is easy to forget that only two years ago, Olive Loughnane was the 12th fastest female race-walker in the world over 20k. But the statistic seemed to get lost in the hysteria after her team-mate and friend Gillian O’Sullivan claimed a world championship silver in Paris.

LIMERICK County board chairman Denis Holmes has emphatically denied a Sunday newspaper report that former Clare hurling supremo Ger Loughnane was being lined up to take over as manager of Limerick in 2006.

THE former home of Clare hurling manager, Ger Loughnane, at 15 Coill Mhara in Shannon is now up for sale again, through Sherry FitzGerald Mc Mahon’s Shannon office.

Two Co Cork men who took part in a firebomb attack on a house in Cork last year were each jailed for four years by the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.