TIPPERARY recovered from a dreadful start to claim a 20th provincial U-21 crown at Semple Stadium last night.

Antrim retained their title at Casement Park last night against a gallant Armagh side.

Dan Shanahan believes he can do a job for Davy Fitzgerald's Waterford side this year and that he still has 70 minutes of hurling left in his ageing legs.

Donal Og Cusack has described next week's first All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny as "the biggest game Cork have played in a very long time".

MUNSTER U-21 HC Final

WHATEVER Ollie Canning said about retiring in the dressing-room last Sunday, he qualified it slightly by his later comments that "in all probability" it was his last game for Galway.

THE challenges are coming thick and fast for Padraic Maher and Tipperary. Hectic times, the All Star defender admits, but better than twiddling your thumbs for the remainder of the summer.

Ollie Canning has admitted he has probably played his last game of hurling for Galway.

A game that will be remembered as little more than a flower arrangement tossed our way in the preamble to an epic.

LIAM Sheedy wore the look of a man who just had his shoulders relieved of the heavy load which had stubbornly sat there since the last Sunday in May.

TODAY

FOR Liam Sheedy, it was all about courage and persistence even when things were going against Tipperary; for John McIntyre, it was about coming to terms with the sickening feeling of having lost an All-Ireland quarter-final by a point for a second successive year.

Man of the match

Man of the match

TIPPERARY are serious All-Ireland contenders again following yesterday's thrilling one-point victory against Galway. And fair play to them for sticking at it, because they were two points down with time running out before hitting three to win it.

Galway withstood a brave second half rally from Waterford to book their place in the semi-finals at Croke Park yesterday.

All eyes will be on the semi-final draw today after the conclusion of the round-robin phase of the Gala All-Ireland Senior Camogie Championship yesterday.

Dublin recovered from a poor start to progress to the last four with eight points to spare over a gallant Antrim side at Oliver Plunkett Park in Crossmaglen on Saturday.

Cork are about to find out more about themselves than a year of MRIs could ever tell them.

THE GAA have warned that the practice of hurlers tugging an opponent's faceguard will soon become a red-card offence.

I f there's a theory out there that the back-door system has devalued the provincial championships, you couldn't say the evidence was there to support it in Thurles last Saturday night.

L AST December, as the All Star hurlers prepared to depart Dublin Airport for Buenos Aires, a crowd gathered around one player who had a supply of extra sleeping tablets.

WHAT quarter-final draw would you like after losing out in extra-time in a gruelling Munster final replay?

RACE week approaching, good weather forecast and the hurlers about to qualify for the All-Ireland semi-final -- what more could Galway people ask for? We'll definitely have the races in Ballybrit next week and, as for the weather, well it can be a bit unpredictable although, in fairness, not any more than Galway hurlers.

THIS is not where Tipperary thought they would be. Nor is it where Galway hoped to be but, deep down, they always knew it was likely that the last Sunday in July would see them booked in for All-Ireland quarter-final duty.