Tipp stars join the Semple fun

ON Sunday in Croke Park Padraic Maher and Seamus Callanan will be central figures in the Tipperary team facing Dublin in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final, battling to face Kilkenny on the first Sunday in September.

Yesterday in Semple Stadium they were central figures again, but this time on a very different GAA occasion.

In one of many creative initiatives by the Coaching & Games Development arm of the Munster Council, Pat O’Shea (football) and Joey Carton (hurling), in consultation with Council vice-chairman Robert Frost, have come up with the ‘Munster Activity Days’ plan. It consists of four separate two-day events in four of the most storied venues in GAA history – Páirc Uí Chaoimh in Cork, Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney, the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick, and on Monday and Tuesday of this week the most renowned of them all, Semple Stadium in Thurles.