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 Tipperary Hurling Champions 1949 It is with regret we report that Phil Shanahan, who played hurling with both his native Tipperary and Dublin, has passed away.
Born in the parish of Toomevara North Tipperary in January 1928, Phil made his debut at senior level with his club in the 1945 Championship, at just seventeen years of age.
Phil played minor hurling with Tipperary in 1946 and won both All Ireland and Munster senior hurling medals with Tipperary in the famous three in a row victories of 1949, 1950 and 1951, one of only eight players who played in the same position for the three championships.
Phil retired from club hurling in 1966, after a successful career of twenty years. He later turned his attention to training and coaching, beginning with Portlaoise, where he lead the club to five senior football titles between 1966 and 1971. On retiring from Esso in 1982 Phil trained and coached Killenaule, to win three South Tipperary Intermediate Championships in hurling, in 1983, 1985 and 1986.
Phil will be remembered as one of hurling’s finest midfielders, winning four Railway Cup medals in 1950, 1951, 1952 and 1953 and four National Hurling League medals in 1949, 1950, 1952 and 1957.
We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Joan (Power) and to his sons, Philip, Brian and David and to all his extended family.
Removal will take place from O’Donoghue’s Funeral Home, Kickham Street, Clonmel, at 7.30pm to St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church this evening. Burial will follow Requiem Mass at 1.00pm tomorrow, in St. Patrick’s Cemetery.
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 Three-time GAA All Star and Tipperary’s mainstay, since he made his Championship debut in 2001, Lar Corbett has decided to withdraw from the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel for the 2012 season.
A Tipperary County spokesman has confirmed that Corbett has informed his Tipperary manager, Declan Ryan, of this decision to withdraw from the panel, stating that he is unable to give a 100 % commitment to training, due to work and other business commitments.
While Tipperary management have left the door open for his potential return to the squad in the future, his decision is seen as a monumental blow to Tipperary hurling.
In an official statement released by the Tipperary County Board yesterday evening, the Board stated:-
“Tipperary Senior Hurling Management regrets that Lar Corbett has informed us of his withdrawal from the Tipperary Senior Hurling panel due to work and business commitments.
Lar’s importance and value to the Tipperary Senior Hurling team is immeasurable and the door will remain open to him for a return to the panel if those work pressures ease.”
Corbett, during his time with Tipperary, has won two All-Ireland SHC titles (2001, 2010), four Munster SHC titles (2001, 2008, 2009, 2011), two NHL titles (2001, 2008), three All Star accolades (2009, 2010, 2011), GAA, GPA and Texaco Hurler of the Year (2010) and three Tipperary SHC titles (2005, 2009, 2010).
 Munster rugby star Denis Leamy has now been ruled out of the Six Nations Championship, due to possibly having surgery for a troublesome hip injury. Denis is unlikely to feature again for the Munster side this season.
Munster coach, Tony McGahan, confirmed that the 30-year-old could be sidelined for up to four months, as he attempts to resolve an injury which has consistently caused problems for the last six months. The Tipperary man, has only featured seven times for Munster this season, and will be travelling to London on Thursday, to seek specialist advice.
 Meanwhile Tipperary hurling forward, Seamus Callanan, looks most likely to miss the entire National Hurling League, following a serious ankle injury.
It is understood that the Drom and Inch champion underwent an operation in Dublin this week, to rectify his ankle problem and has been ruled out of action for possibly up to four months.
Callanan’s latest injury setback puts the 23-year-old hurling ace under pressure to be fit for the Tipperary Munster SHC quarter-final, to beheld here in Semple Stadium on May 27th, against Limerick.
 Munster MEP Mr Sean Kelly “The GAA should buy the famous Hayes Hotel here in Thurles.” So says former GAA President and current Fine Gael Munster MEP, Mr Sean Kelly, who has once again reiterated his proposal that the GAA should buy this historic home of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
Mr Kelly stated; “Hayes Hotel is a major symbol of Irish cultural and sporting heritage and the location of the first GAA meeting in 1884. The GAA was founded at this hotel, so it is the perfect site for a museum to showcase GAA history and its continued growing success nationally and globally. A GAA museum would be an enormous tourist attraction for sports fans. The GAA is built on the dedication and success of local clubs and future EU sports policy will reinforce the need to support grassroots sports. Indeed, I have often cited the GAA as a leading example of how sport can boost the physical, social and economic health of regional towns, during my work at the European Parliament. Hayes Hotel could also be used as a regional GAA headquarters with staff tasked with supporting local clubs across the country. The creation of a GAA museum, at this time would be timely, as Thurles has been named the 2012 ‘European Town of Sport’.”
Picture courtesy G.Willoughby
 Tipperary GAA’s financial situation “doesn’t make for pretty reading this year,” that’s according to outgoing chairman Mr Barry O’Brien, when he announced a deficit of €220,000, at Tipperary’s annual convention in Thurles last night..
A figure of €1,171,876 was spent on preparing inter-county teams in 2011, marking the fourth successive year in a row that the county had exceeded the €1m mark. This figure showed a reduction of €61,516, compared to the 2010 figure of €1,233,392, which was an all-time high.
This is now the second year in a row that a financial overrun has been incurred, despite cutting expenditure this year by 13%. This year the county’s incomes dropped across the board, with total gate receipts from local games down by almost 18%, from over €323,000 in 2010 to €263,605 in 2011, and coaching income dropped by €90,000 during the same period.
Mr Sean Nugent, the incoming new Board Chairman, admitted he now faced a difficult task during his term of office. However Mr Nugent stated, “The financial report to convention will cause concern to all present and a major challenge lies ahead to rectify this problem. Our income is decreasing and our costs are rising and we need to reverse that trend. While I am very concerned, I am not in anyway daunted by this challenge ahead and I believe we have the will, the capacity and the public support to turn the tide.”
Officials have warned that further major cuts are now necessary with income decreasing and costs rising. Ideas must now be examined on how to increase commercial income and generate further fundraising activities.
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