SPRING was unkind to Eoin Kelly, and it had nothing to do with Tipperary’s patchy league performances. The star forward’s list of injuries and niggles ran in parallel with the early season, and sometimes the two intersected. Leaning against a wall in Thurles, he runs through the list.

WHEN the truth becomes legend, print the legend.

A GOAL by Diarmuid O’Riordan after 20 minutes proved the decisive score in this Evening Echo County SHC replay at Ballinhassig last night but Kilkenny boss Brian Cody was left sweating on the fitness of John Tennyson after the Cats star went off after just ten minutes with what appeared to be a groin injury.

DAMNED if they do, damned if they don’t.

DUBLIN manager Paul Caffrey would not have been unduly worried by the poor standard produced in Croke Park yesterday, but be assured that nothing will be taken for granted when the champions renew their rivalry with Meath in the Bank of Ireland Leinster football championship quarter-final on June 3.

On the eve of yet another Kerry/Cork Munster final, former players Weeshie Fogarty and Mick O’Loughlin recall epic battles from one the GAA’s greatest rivalries. They spoke to Diarmuid O’Flynn.

WATERFORD star Eoin Kelly faces a race against time to be fit for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Limerick.

JUST over three months ago Ciaran ‘Dinky’ McBride was busy preparing his Omagh CBS side for the final of the Hogan Cup against their Christian Brother counterparts from Tralee in Croke Park.

WAS it a free or was it not a free? — that was the question asked by thousands of fans after yesterday’s heart-stopping Croker tussle between Waterford and Cork.

CORK WEREN’T alone in voicing their anger at referee Brian Gavin at the final whistle.

MIGHTY battlers Macroom. And they needed to be in Carrigadrohid on Saturday where a last gasp David Goold goal left Aghabullogue stunned, just when some skilful, no-nonsense defending looked like earning the more renowned hurling battlers a place in the Evening Echo Cork Co IFC semi-final.

SIX years since its inception and there is still a body of opinion that the Qualifiers are something to be endured rather than enjoyed. Well, Cavan on Saturday night was the perfect riposte to critics of the back door.

RYAN McMENAMIN has warned that Tyrone will need to up their performances if they are to claim a third All-Ireland in five seasons come September.

CORK cruised past the students of UL in a one sided McGrath Cup semi-final at Pairc Uí Rinn last night to set up a final clash against Limerick at the same venue next Sunday in what will be a dress rehearsal for their provincial championship meeting next May.

He may still be waiting to make his championship debut for Kerry, but Kieran Cremin is not bitter, writes Colm O’Connor.

NO matter how much satisfaction there was to be gained from ending Chelsea’s Premiership challenge, I left our new stadium on Sunday evening, for the last time this season, feeling more than a little disheartened.

FOR Chelsea fans it has been a week of roller coaster emotions.

AS an Arsenal fan, there was a certain sadistic pleasure involved in channel hopping between the high-drama of Saturday’s high-noon double-header.

ALL the Euro euphoria last week was very hard to bear, amidst all the media’s “best league in the world” backslapping.

HOW DO you explain this?