Colourful silage fields will spread the message of support for children’s hospitals and raising breast cancer awareness this summer.

Former teammates Brendan Cummins and Eoin Kelly have paid tribute to retiring Tipperary defender Paul Curran.

The founder of an animal rescue centre fears the shelter will be forced to close due to mounting costs and debts.

A former garda sergeant, who has lived in the shadow of a gunman for almost a decade was yesterday awarded more than €390,000 compensation for severe post-traumatic stress disorder and loss of career and social and family life.

Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher and Paul Murphy sit together in Collins Barracks, Cork, and talk hurling.

And… Breathe. The neutrals may welcome another shot at an All-Ireland hurling final after that stunning draw but can the locals in Kilkenny and Tipperary bear it? Will their hearts be able for that sort of tension again?

Throw a sliotar across a field in the vicinity of any of the communities which nestle against the Kilkenny/ Tipperary border and you’re likely to hit someone who supports one county but is married to, works with, or is friends with, someone from the other side.

Graffiti on a new limestone monument in Johnstown ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland final has been condemned as the work of "unsporting people".

The HSE is stepping up its campaign to stop shops selling tobacco to minors and plans to "name and shame" businesses flouting the smoking ban.

Gardaí have recovered the body of missing Tipperary man James O'Dwyer.

Gardaí are investigating a possible sighting of a man missing in Tipperary since last weekend.

Six housing estates have been included in the list of properties exempted from the property tax despite never featuring in any official government list of unfinished developments.

A flight instructor, who was “firmly convinced he was going to die” when the microlight he was in went into a steep dive, alerted emergency services to the accident location by using the GPS app on his mobile phone.

Winning and losing.

So what if Kilkenny were beaten in the Leinster final by a Galway team that belied the underdog tag, says Tipperary captain Paul Curran.

It’s the kind of voice you hardly hear anymore in inter-county hurling management.

It wasn’t as arduous a campaign as in the famine-ending year of 1987 when they played five games before being crowned Munster champions for the first time since 1971 but it’s still been a hard road for Tipperary this year.

The Emerald Expo 2012 is now one of the great landmark shows on the annual agricultural calendar organised by the Irish Holstein Friesian Association in association with Alltech Ireland.

A Tipperary man has been banned from every pub in the United Kingdom for a year after he was found drunk in Windsor Castle, just yards from Queen Elizabeth's private apartments.

OF the 132 men who have hurled 15 SHC matches or more with Tipperary, 125 have won an All-Ireland medal on the field of play.

A full technical examination of an aircraft which crashed in Co Tipperary yesterday will take place at the Air Accident Investigation Unit in Co Meath later.

INVESTIGATIONS are under way into the cause of a light aircraft crash which injured a flight instructor and his pupil yesterday after the craft plunged 2,000 feet from the sky.

At least one person has been seriously injured after a light plane crashed near Mullinahone in Co. Tipperary.

PAUL CURRAN is the current All Star full-back, a tough, uncompromising position for tough, uncompromising hurlers, and on Sunday in the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick the Mullinahone stalwart will again man that critical position as Tipperary face Clare in the Munster SHC semi-final.

That’s Anne McGrath’s verdict of the politicians who drew up Budget 2011.

TIPPERARY woman Anne McGrath was named the national Carer of the Year in a ceremony that blew away the gloom of recession, at least for a while.

SHE has already lost two of her children to a rare and devastating disease but brave mother Anne McGrath is now devoting her energy to looking after her 10-year-old daughter who is battling the same condition.

Tipperary Under-21 manager Ken Hogan praised his sharpshooting troops after they hammered Galway by 25 points last night to claim the Premier County's first All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship title since 1995.

Upwards of 40,000 spectators braved the wet conditions to welcome home the Tipperary All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship winning squad and management at Semple Stadium in Thurles last night.

THEY may have won 26 All-Irelands, but last night Tipperary’s players and back-room staff came together with supporters to celebrate as if this year’s was their first.

THE homecoming for the victorious Tipperary hurlers is set to take place in Semple Stadium tonight after the team has journeyed down from Dublin by train.

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.

WHOEVER wins, history of some description will be written tomorrow.

ONE of the top awards in the cattle section at Cappamore Show in Co Limerick was kept in the county.

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MILK price increases announced by a number of co-ops have been welcomed by the Irish Farmers Association.

NIALL CURRAN has revealed how his brother and Tipperary star Paul recaptured top form after being taken off in this year’s Munster hurling final.

NIALL CURRAN has revealed how his brother and Tipperary star Paul recaptured top form after being taken off in this year’s Munster hurling final.

SPARE a thought this morning for the domesticated fauna of the state of Minnesota. News broke this week of an incident involving a goat, some paint and an electric razor which was enough to bring tears to the eyes.