Michael Moynihan considers the positives and negatives of the new look provincial hurling championships

What kind of game are Tipperary trying to prosecute, asks Enda McEvoy.

Culture Night takes place today, with a feast of free offerings all over the country. Ellie O’Byrne selects some of the highlights

For the most part, this ‘new’ politics isn’t working and, contrary to popular belief, it is not Ross and the other independents who have been found wanting at the Cabinet table, writes Political Editor Daniel McConnell

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The only missing element to Roy White’s Triton Showers National Rally Championship victory is an event win in a round of the series. 

If TJ Ryan is reading, here’s a question for him. (And if he isn’t, he’ll doubtless have heard it by tonight.) Does he know what kind of game Limerick will be trying to enact tomorrow?

She once called Japan home. Now Fiona Uyema is bringing Japanese recipes to Irish kitchens with a new book, writes Margaret Jennings

Andy Lee’s manager and coach Adam Booth believes that it will be a triumphant homecoming for the Limerick southpaw at Thomond Park.

AIB All-Ireland Club SHC semi-final: Kilmallock v Portaferry: This afternoon, Kilmallock, Limerick and Munster champions, take on Ulster kingpins Portaferry in the All-Ireland club hurling semi-final.

The last week wasn’t a great one if you were a Limerick hurling fan.

There’s a qualitative difference between Division 1A in hurling, and the second tier. Of course there is.

The Women’s Premier League semi-final clash between Team Montenotte and DCU Mercy on Sunday is sure to capture the imagination of basketball fans in the capital.

Two brothers with addresses in Kildare have appeared in Longford District Court in connection with a spate of thefts across the Shannonside region that led to a car chase across four counties over the weekend.

THE broadcast of a Prime Time Investigates special report last May into the mistreatment of children at a number of creches has proven a catalyst in raising awareness of standards and the regulation of pre-school facilities.

Limerick’s double setback at Croke Park last Sunday rendered further ammunition to a theory supported by many on Shannonside, that national headquarters has a jinx on their teams.

I read the article by your reporter Jimmy Woulfe (Bright Future Dawns, Aug 17) on crime and other developments following the recent conviction of criminal John Dundon, and the convictions of many others over the years. What an uplifting piece of writing.

As Limerick won a first Munster senior hurling title since 1996 at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday, one man with a grandstand view has a unique link to Limerick past and Limerick future.

Glory days are back in Limerick hurling, so who better to ring in the Treaty City’s GAA celebrations, than The Boss?

Limerick 1-25 Kilkenny 1-20

Launch of Ireland’s first ‘edible’ Économusée

The true Gael will daily encounter multiple reasons to swell with fierce pride as he or she ambles about our fair land but there are few finer reasons than our magnificent farmhouse cheeses, now of such variety and quality as to justly earn us a prime place on the global cheeseboard.

Gardaí estimate around 45,000 turned out for today's nationwide protest against Ireland's bank debt burden.

What to make of all the All-Ireland senior hurling provincial championship draws yesterday? The first and most obvious question — why so soon?

Anthony Daly will take his Dublin hurlers down to Shannonside to face the Clare side under the charge of his former team mate Davy Fitzgerald.

Two All-Ireland winners patrol the sidelines fortomorrow’s Bord Gáis Energy Ladies NFL Division Fourfinal at O’Connor Park,Tullamore.

Michelin star chef in your own home

Costing north of €500, daytrips to Lapland aren’t exactly a holiday for the masses. Not to worry, writes Pól Ó Conghaile, there are lots of winter wonderlands right here at home

LIMERICK captain Gavin O’Mahony believes John Allen is the perfect choice to replace Donal O’Grady as senior hurling manager.

A MIX of drink and food with a strong dollop of Killinaskully humour is proving a winning summer cocktail with tourists and locals alike in Limerick.

YESTERDAY’S defeat at the hands of Tipperary brought more pain and frustration for Cork supporters, who only 12 months ago enjoyed a double-digit hammering of the same opposition.

MUNSTER’S Amlin Challenge Cup semi-final with Harlequins could generate more than €5m for Limerick city and the surrounding region.

PLANS are continuing for 1,000 women to “walk the walk” in support of breast cancer sufferers.

LIMERICK selector TJ Ryan has revealed one of the secret mantras which has helped changed the fortunes of the county’s senior hurlers.

LIMERICK IT nailed down a Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final berth at Moylish yesterday and left this year’s hosts on the brink of missing the finals weekend.

UL EAGLES beat UCC Demons to set up another clash with defending champions, 11890 Killester, while Ulster Elks shocked Belfast Star and will meet UCD Marian — who beat DCU Saints for the second time in a week — when the quarter-finals of the Men’s SuperLeague National Cup were decided over the weekend.