From watching Arsenal in Clonmel on Saturday morning through the third lap of homecoming celebrations on Wednesday night in Liam Sheedy’s Portroe, Seamus Kennedy’s All-Ireland diary takes us inside an exhilarating and emotional week in Tipperary.

A man has died in a fatal single-vehicle road collision in county Tipperary.

Tiger Roll is fast becoming one of the most popular racehorses in the land. While being bred for the flat and winning an Aintree Grand National is not unique – the last multiple victor of the Liverpool feature more than 40 years ago, Red Rum was a dead-heat winner on his debut over five furlongs – but the versatility and sheer breadth of achievement of the Gigginstown House Stud-owned and Gordon Elliott-trained nine-year-old takes some beating.

All-Ireland winning Tipperary goalkeeper Darren Gleeson has admitted obtaining by deception €10,000 from an elderly man over four years ago.

German airmen who crashed in Ireland during the Second World War and survived were interned here, becoming objects of great curiosity among local people who encountered them, as Ryle Dwyer discovers.     

Nestled neatly between Urlingford and Two-Mile-Borris lies the sleepy village of Gortnahoe.

Tipperary hurler Darren Gleeson faces an “indefinite” ban from working in a senior role in a financial services advisory firm, the Central Bank has disclosed.

Gardaí have appealed for witnesses to the crash which claimed the life of a German man in Kerry on Saturday night.

Tipperary management insist Ian Fahey will play in the EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final against Dublin next Saturday.

Gaelic Players’ Association chief executive Dessie Farrell has estimated that the demands on inter-county footballers and hurlers are such that the average retirement age has dropped significantly since his own playing days.

In 1979 I recall, as a young boy, being introduced by my grandparents to a friend who had an interest in CB radio and electronics.

This morning, the chairman of the national hurling review forum will be out coaching Portroe’s Under 16 Camogie team, encouraging each and every player — his daughter included. "In this country, we knock too much," says Tipperary’s All-Ireland-winning coach Liam Sheedy.

A 72-year-old woman has lost her civil action in a land dispute involving a Government minister and his father.

A junior government minister and his father have been accused of a “thou shalt not pass” approach in a land dispute involving a an elderly neighbour.

A government minister has recalled how an neighbour installed a camera directly facing his home at a time when it was publicly known he was receiving death threats.

Jim Gavin’s appointment as the new Dublin senior football manager looks almost a formality after being approached about succeeding Pat Gilroy.

Co Tipperary property has an asking price in excess of €175,000, Trish Dromey reports.

A COMPANY seeking to build a lakeside housing scheme in Co Tipperary is aiming to kickstart local development through upgrading a wastewater treatment plant.

DECLAN KELLY, who recently stepped down as the US economic envoy to the North, is to join forces with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in a private equity and international consultancy business.

Tipperary’s Eoin Kelly is physically stronger and mentally tougher than at any stage of his glittering hurling career — right down to the practised art of selective amnesia perfected by Jack Nicklaus.

THERE has been an increase in the number of injuries to sports divers.

A MAJOR housing development to be located just minutes from the shores of Lough Derg has come under scrutiny from North Tipperary County Council.

Four people have been airlifted to hospital after getting into difficulty while diving in Co Tipperary earlier today.

TIPPERARY star Shane McGrath has revealed that Liam Sheedy informed his players that he was stepping down as team manager with a group text message early yesterday morning.

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.

Eoin Kelly has had worse weeks. Last Sunday he captained Tipperary to the All-Ireland senior hurling title. Now he reflects on the biggest day of his sporting life with Michael Moynihan

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appointed an Irish business advisor as her government's economic envoy to Northern Ireland.

BEFORE we get into any details, I want to address something here in general terms, namely the lack of buzz around the championship this year.

KATHY SINNOTT suggested a campaign had been orchestrated against her following the Lisbon treaty referendum defeat last summer, after losing her seat as an MEP to Labour’s Senator Alan Kelly last night.

THE 50th anniversary of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is expected to be the biggest and best to date with more beautiful contestants than ever before.

THE funeral takes place today of one of the two best friends killed early on Sunday morning in Co Limerick.

Three teenagers killed in a New Year’s Eve car crash will be buried today.

THREE teenage boys died on New Year’s Eve in a horror car crash that has left two other teenagers fighting for their lives.

Tipperary representative Aoife Kelly has been named as this year's Rose of Tralee following the annual pageant in the Co Kerry town.

The Labour Party tonight selected Senator Alan Kelly as its candidate for the Ireland South constituency in next year’s European Parliament elections.

The Labour Party will select its candidate today to stand in the Ireland South constituency for next year's European Parliament elections.

Influential centre back Ciara Gaynor has decided to end her six-year involvement with the Tipperary senior camogie team.

This coming Sunday the TG4 Underdogs side, managed by former Offaly boss Pat Fleury, will take on the might of Kilkenny's senior hurlers on the hallowed turf of Nowlan Park (throw-in 1.45pm).

BACK in the days when the Irish palate was notoriously conservative, Derry Clarke’s father and his brother Joe dealt in everything from continental cheeses and Danish rusks to snails and frogs’ legs.

MILLION pound price tags are not unusual in the Killaloe/Ballina area — in fact, this part of Clare and Limerick could be called the “axis of affluence”, to adapt Mr Bush’s phrase.