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1 week ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Maurice Brosnan |TUS Gaelic Grounds
A dud. Tipperary cruised to a semi-final against Kilkenny with ease in the end. A late goal made the margin less ugly for Galway but the performance was dire. Galway’s conversion rate was a paltry 45% in a tie where they only landed eight scores from play. Declan McLaughlin mustered a green flag in injury time. At that stage, the royal blue and gold were already thinking about Croke Park. The air in the Gaelic Grounds was charged with a curious electricity.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Stephen Barry |TUS Gaelic Grounds
Brian Lohan felt it was important to sign off on a luckless All-Ireland defence with a victory as Ryan Taylor’s second-half goals saw Clare past Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds. Mark Rodgers’ 1-8 inside 46 minutes put the Banner in a winning position before Taylor raced forward to net a brace in front of 32,133 fans. Regardless of their flat performance in this dead-rubber contest, the Treatymen will host Cork in the Munster final next Saturday week.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | John Fogarty |TUS Gaelic Grounds
In full technicolor, this was the backlash. All the grievance, all the fury, all the frustration Limerick had stored since last July was taken out on the Cork team who had obliterated their five-in-a-row tilt. As John Kiely said afterwards, his players’ “motivation levels are obviously absolutely through the roof”. Fourteen years ago, Kilkenny had to wait a whole year before they struck back at Tipperary for ending their dreams of a fifth straight All-Ireland title.
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1 month ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
The day began with confirmation of player unrest in the Clare senior camp. The day concluded with Munster final defeat for their U20 class. A Wednesday to be put in the Banner bin. For Tipp, a sweet five days. A restorative victory for their flagship team. An U20 Munster final victory that reinforces their thriving underage scene. Such is the talent in the Premier underage ranks, the performance was less than clinical and yet they still came away with a five-point winning margin.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
A massively important first round-robin win for the Cork U20 hurlers, even if they remain outside of Munster’s top three. After drawing with Clare on the opening night and then falling to favourites Tipperary, nothing less than victory here would suffice to keep Noel Furlong’s charges in control of their own fate and in the hunt for a top-three Munster round-robin finish.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
Limerick’s Division 4 League success fuelled the notion that Cork would be subject to a pre-Kerry interrogation. The interrogation lasted all of 25 minutes. Cork did not sweat their short interview room stay. Cork came back down the road no wiser about themselves. Saturday evening at the Gaelic Grounds sat in a green and gold shadow. Saturday evening, above all else, was a preamble to April 19. Everything Cork did and didn’t do was measured against their waiting Munster semi-final opponents.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
John Cleary wasnât long being asked about Kerry. The one-sided nature of Saturdayâs Munster football quarter-final meant there was no need to dwell particularly long on the game just finished. Cleary made two core points regarding Kerryâs visit a fortnight in the distance. The first was that his Cork team would have to be better than they were here. The second was his certainty that they would be better than they were here.
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2 months ago | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
Limerick dismissed, quickly onto Kerry. A third straight Cork victory moves them comfortably onto a Munster semi-final on Saturday fortnight. Visitors-turned-hosts. Their guests to Páirc Uí Chaoimh will wear green and gold. Following as it did the relegation-avoiding League wins over Louth and Cavan, this 11-point Munster quarter-final dismissal of Limerick represented only the second time that Cork have managed a three-in-a-row of victories across spring and summer fare during John Cleary's reign.
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Mar 22, 2025 | 
irishexaminer.com | Maurice Brosnan |TUS Gaelic Grounds
Blockbusters are preceded by the odd boring trailer, it is often still before the storm, to make it to the rock show you must first endure the queue. In the Gaelic Grounds, the countdown to the championship saw Limerick and Wexford produce the most tedious and sloppy queue of all time. Wexford’s relegation was already confirmed before this dead rubber but this on paper was still a decent warm-up for their opening Leinster clash against Antrim.
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Mar 8, 2025 | 
irishexaminer.com | Eoghan Cormican |TUS Gaelic Grounds
Peter Casey back in green was a sight to behold for John Kiely. It’s a sight he had his doubts over in April of last year when Casey left the Gaelic Grounds with a broken ankle. The corner-forward made his first appearance in green since that Munster championship injury when coming off the bench - and pointing - during Limerick’s 12-point pumping of Galway. “Peter has had a long period of time in recovery from his injury last year and it's been a piece of work to get it right.
