“So what do you make of VAR?” the guy behind the counter in my local garage asked the customer in front of me in the queue.

St Catherine’s survived a strong finish from Castlemartyr in the third round of the Cork IHC at Lisgoold this evening.

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.

This is not a column about VAR. I promise. Well, not really. It’s about hurling, and how it appears to be intent on destroying itself. By bringing in VAR. Wait, wait, don’t run away!

It seems an unnecessary message to have to impart to an inter-county team, but Tipperary U20 hurling manager Liam Cahill is blue in the face telling his players to fight and graft all the way to the last whistle.

Dublin’s double goal-scoring hero in the 2018 TG4 All-Ireland senior final, Carla Rowe, is hoping to repeat her ‘dream come true’ performance when the champions face Cork in Croke Park on Sunday.

The few weeks leading up to an All-Ireland football final tends to provide the ideal conditions for conspiracy theorists to flourish.

Moments after Kilkenny had accounted for a gallant but tiring Tipperary with a last-quarter score rush, Ann Downey was enjoying the luxury of looking forward to watching the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship Semi-Final between Cork and Galway.

One county is ecstatic this morning and one despairing, as is always the case after an All-Ireland final.

A look back at the magical moments from this year.

Moments after Kilkenny had accounted for a gallant but tiring Tipperary with a late rush of scores, Ann Downey was enjoying the luxury of looking forward to watching the second Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship semi-final between Cork and Galway.

Had Ulster won, it would have been a storyline squeezed for space by its subplots.

After three years waiting for a Connacht victory on Irish soil, it was like two came at once for Galway yesterday in this emphatic win over Roscommon on their home patch.

Intensity and work-rate are the modern day bedrocks of football success. But finesse must still have a place

The Championship?

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

By way of laying our scene for the new hurling championship, two conversations from the evening of May 6, shortly after the National League final.

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Danny North scored in each half as Sligo Rovers kept their unbeaten Premier Division run intact last night.

This day last year they couldn’t do without him. Leo Cullen couldn’t anyhow.