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Clare are through to the final of the Hurling Super 11s to face Galway in this year’s edition of the Fenway Classic taking place in Boston.  Some stunning pieces of skill have been on display across the Atlantic at the home of the Boston Red Sox, with the best our national game has to offer on show for the American …

Tipperary senior football manager Liam Kearns has expressed doubt over how the new championship structures in both football  and hurling will affect the club game. The football championship will include the Super 8s, where a round-robin system will replace the straight quarter-finals, whereas the provincial championships in hurling will see each county guaranteed at least four matches. While the All-Ireland …

Fans travelling to the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh this weekend for the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals between Tipperary and Clare on Saturday and the clash of Waterford and Wexford on Sunday have been urged to take extra precaution with their parking and plan their trip ahead.  The state of the art facility was officially unveiled on Wednesday night for the Cork …

Tipperary haven’t exactly set the championship alight so far this year like they did in 2016, but they are still in the hunt for September glory yet again.  The defending All-Ireland champions saw a drastic halt to the momentum they carried through to the beginning of 2017 from last year’s convincing Liam MacCarthy Cup triumph when they suffered a surprise …

Saturday and Sunday will see the first inter-county games take place in the newly developed Páirc Uí Chaoimh with the All-Ireland SHC quarter-finals going ahead.  Defending champions Tipperary face Clare on Saturday while Waterford and Wexford will clash on Sunday. The decision to host the games on two different days initially raised many an eyebrow. However, the decision will be …

Eoin Kelly has stated that he can see Tipperary boss Michael Ryan making a shock decision for this Saturday’s qualifier clash with Dublin by dropping prolific marksman Seamus Callanan.  Kelly believes that following Tipp’s upset loss to Cork at the quarter-final stage of Munster, Ryan could be on the verge of ringing a number of changes that would not only …

Good news for Tipperary football supporters today is that the injury sustained by star player, Michael Quinlivan, is not as bad was initially feared on Saturday evening.  Quinlivan was stretchered off the Pairc Uí Rinn pitch around the 15 minute mark of Tipperary’s one-point loss to Cork at the weekend as a result of what appeared to be a serious …

Cork scraped past Tipperary by a single point today in the Munster SFC semi-final, just as they did against Waterford at the quarter-final stage in their last outing. While there is much to work on for the Leeside footballers before taking on Clare or Kerry in the provincial decider, they are there. If the Kingdom are to come out on …

Tipperary will travel to Pairc Uí Rinn on Saturday to take on Cork in the Munster SFC semi-final, and for the first time in recent memory the Premier County head into a football clash against the Rebels as favourites in many people’s minds.  Tipp shocked everyone by beating Cork at the same stage of the championship last year and have …

Tipperary goalkeeper, Evan Comerford, who is serving a 12-week ban from Gaelic football, is said to be considering a switch of codes to soccer.  A number of top League of Ireland clubs are said to be interested in signing Comerford, according to The42.ie.  There is reported to have been enquiries made about the availability of the 22-year-old by at least …

Michael Duignan has ferociously condemned the circulation of rumours about the Tipperary hurling panel via WhatsApp messages which swept the country this week.  The messages that were shared spread unsavoury rumours about the personal lives and families of named players within the Tipperary camp. Speaking to Darren Frehill on RTÉ Radio One’s Morning Ireland this morning, the Offaly legend slammed …

Tipperary goalkeeper, Evan Comerford, has been handed a twelve week ban following an incident in a club game last week.  The lengthy ban will date back to the day of the incident, May 23rd, and will see the 2016 All Star nominee miss the entire inter-county championship season unless the Premier reach the All Ireland semi-final stage again this term, …

Cork and Tipperary played out a Munster hurling championship classic in Thurles on Sunday, with the Rebels coming out on top in one of the upsets of the summer already.  The All Ireland champions now head for the back door qualifiers with Cork marching on to a Munster semi-final encounter with Waterford on June 18th. While Tipp planned on rebounding …

Tipperary have been dealt a blow to their championship preparations with news of an injury to Patrick Bonner Maher.  Maher sustained a hamstring injury while lining out for his club in a divisional championship game yesterday. He pulled up around the 36 minute mark with the problem and was swiftly withdrawn. Bonner was contesting a challenge in his club, Lorrha-Dorrha’s …

Jason Forde has been hit with a one-game suspension as a result of his clash with Davy Fitzgerald in last month’s National Hurling League semi-final at Nowlan Park.  It had been reported that Forde would be banned for two matches as a punishment for his role in the row, meaning he would have missed the Premier’s opening couple of championship …

It is without a doubt that Kilkenny vs Tipperary has one of the fiercest rivalries in hurling. We have seen both teams perform at their best, and we have witnessed some terrific, pulsating games. The two old foes have faced off seven times in the championship this decade. From those games, we have picked our best fifteen and in turn, we have …

The days keep passing by and the 2016 All-Ireland Hurling Final between Kilkenny and Tipperary draws closer and closer. In our continuous look ahead to hurling’s biggest day, we take this opportunity to focus on Tipperary and who will be their potential match winners on Sunday. 1. Patrick ‘Bonner’ Maher We pick the Bonner at number one for one reason …

It was a busy weekend in the All-Ireland hurling Championship. All in all, it was like an episode of Game of Thrones this weekend, with some pretenders to the throne annihilated in ruthless fashion as the big wheels laid bare their intentions for 2015. Galway produced yet another an impressive performance, putting Laois to the sword on Saturday, Kilkenny showed they …