All-Ireland senior hurling champions Tipperary will return from their five-day warm-weather training camp in Spain’s Costa Blanca tomorrow as expected.

The proverbial game of two halves in Salthill but a wind-assisted half-time lead of seven points wasn’t nearly enough for Tipperary to hang on.

Our writers chat through the main talking points from the weekend’s Allianz League action.

Prince William showed off his juggling skills to the delight of his wife as they celebrated Galway’s year as the European Capital of Culture.

Kerry withstood a dramatic late Mayo rally to snatch their third league win of the season and keep their hopes of a shot at the Division 1 league title alive at MacHale Park in Castlebar earlier today.

Limerick will host Waterford at the LIT Gaelic Grounds on Saturday, March 7 at 9pm. The original game earlier this month was due to be televised on eir Sport.

O’Sullivan could face up to a 12-week ban, which would prevent him from being available for Cork’s Munster SHC opener against Limerick at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on May 10.

Cork manager Kieran Kingston has also made four changes, with Eoin Cadogan selected at full-back.

Galway hurling manager Shane O’Neill has received a boost with Joe Canning set to be available for next Sunday’s clash with Tipperary in Salthill.

Despite dire weather warnings turnout has been strong in many constituencies, with turnout exceeding 40% of the electorate in some areas.

John Fogarty and Eoghan Cormican preview the weekend's GAA fixtures.

Galway defender John Daly said their clash against Kerry under lights in Tralee next Saturday night will give them a good indication of how they are progressing under new manager Pádraic Joyce.

“The abuse the officers have got on social media in the last three months is not acceptable.”

Galway GAA has to move into the 21st century, according to Mick Culhane, who will contest the chairmanship of the Galway county board next Monday.

I love a good old storm. Watching the coverage on the news bulletins on TV from around the country is like watching coverage of the St Patrick’s Day parades.

A man in his 70s was arrested following the incident

IT WAS written about an old ruin in Co Wexford but it may as well have been written for any other place.

Nellie Browne may not only be one of the west of Ireland’s oldest apple growers, but she may also be one of the wisest participants in Galway 2020, the city’s European capital of culture.

Publican Rory Clancy, spokesman for a demonstration supported by over 2,000 people at the weekend, said the community was once again asking the department to “come and speak to us here in Oughterard”.

The developer seeking a contract to provide a centre for asylum seekers in Oughterard, Co Galway, has denied making “intimidating” comments to a delegation of residents last week.

At least five family pets were killed and a number of other dogs are extremely ill after eating poisoned meat.

An in-depth study of our coasts and waterways shows just 16% are clean.

Cork Harbour is one of the three most heavily littered waterways in Ireland, according to a study.

The alarm was raised around midday today at Blackrock Beach, gardaí confirmed.

Lorna Siggins meets an upbeat teacher of qi gong, a Chinese mindfulness practice that operates on a system of 12 essential movements.

Strange one, this. Very strange.

When Limerick and Kilkenny shape up Saturday evening in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final, it’ll bring back particularly fond memories for one of the men in green and white.

As open water sea swimmers prepare for a Galway Bay crossing this weekend, Irish Water has said there is “no proven link” between a recent serious pollution incident in the city and the quality of bathing water off Galway’s beaches.

Three Sundays ago, at the midpoint of a Connacht SFC final nobody was loving too much, you could have forgiven Galway manager Kevin Walsh a micro-breath of presumptuous relief: his side leading by five, at home, the expectation was they would consolidate their advantage — albeit in monsoon conditions — and reclaim the provincial title.

Thirteen months ago, Henry Shefflin tried to do his club-mate TJ Reid a turn. Rather than calling on referees to protect his fellow ‘hurler of the year’, Sheffin suggested Brian Cody move him to full-forward to avoid man-marking.

John Dalton, professor of molecular parasitology, NUI Galway

Cork claimed their first LGFA All-Ireland U14 Platinum title since 2013 at the expense of Galway in Banagher county Offaly this afternoon.

The GAA are bracing themselves for the worst attendances at provincial football finals in well over a decade.

What scenes of celebration in Salthill on Sunday as Roscommon fans stormed the field in celebration of a first Connacht football title since… wait... 2017?

Some years some titles should be valued that bit more than usual, having been that bit harder earned.

Roscommon footballers Enda Smith and Tadhg O’Rourke have targeted an All-Ireland semi-final appearance following the county’s latest Connacht championship triumph.

Galway and Roscommon have named their started XVs for Sunday's Connacht SFC final.

Galway captain Damien Comer has been ruled out of Sunday’s Connacht SFC final against Roscommon.

Traditions are an intriguing twitch of the curtain, a means of discovering what people reveal when relaxed.

This week on Dalo’s Hurling Podcast, Derek McGrath and Ger Cunningham talked Waterford’s psyche, Tipp’s flexibility, Limerick’s big calls, and Galway’s need for a performance.

Podge Collins didn’t take too kindly to our claim last week that the modern sliotar is too light.