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 The Tipperary County Board have announced new hurling managers at Under-21 and Minor levels.
The Under-21 side will now be managed by TJ Connolly of Cashel King Cormacs while the Minors will be managed by Liam Cahill, Ballingarry.
The news comes after the board confirmed earlier that Ken Hogan and William Maher had stepped down as Under-21 and Minor hurling managers.
Speculation about Ken Hogan’s managerial future is now likely to intensify. The Lorrha-Dorrha clubman has been linked with the vacant Limerick and Offaly jobs in recent weeks, following the departure of John Allen and Ollie Baker.
Hogan had completed four years as Under 21 manager and led Tipperary to Munster and All-Ireland titles in 2010, while Maher led the county to Munster and All Ireland Minor hurling titles in 2012.
The new appointments were confirmed at last night’s County Board meeting in Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co Tipperary.
  
 North Tipperary’s Greg Broderick and the five-year-old mare Arraghbeg Clover produced a stunning victory for the Irish Sport Horse Studbook at the World Breeding Championships at Lanaken in Belgium.
Despite some poor weather conditions earlier this week, the event attracted an enormous crowd of enthusiastic breeders, producers, riders, trainers, owners and experts from around the world, all who thoroughly enjoyed their annual reunion.
These Championships have long been recognised as the perfect place to share ideas, and compare the merit, development, innovation and success of the studbooks, old and new, which produce the latest stars of the modern day sport of Jumping.
The gold-medal-winning partnership of Greg Broderick and the ISH Arraghbeg Clover were eighteenth to go, and they set an unmerciful target when breaking the beam in 39.72 seconds after a scorching round in which the Tipperary rider took every risk.
This mare, by Captain Clover who is a son of the legendary Irish stallion Clover Hill, has a mix of breeding that combines the toughness of the Irish horse with the quality of the thoroughbred, Bonnie Prince, on his dam’s side and with the Dutch influence of Animo.
Greg, who celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday, is a prolific producer of good Irish horses and Arraghbeg Clover has earned €19,000 in prize money in the last few months having won the Irish Sport Horse Studbook 5-Year-Old League and the Breeders Classic, while also finishing third in her age category at Dublin Horse Show in August.
Arraghbeg Clover – Captain Clover x Bonnie Prince – is jointly-owned by her rider and Declan Orpen.
From a start list of some 242 horses, 63 qualified for yesterday’s 5-Year-Old final in which 25 went through to a jump-off.
I t is with sincere regret we learn of the untimely death of Mr Tommy Kelly, uncle to two of Tipperary’s hurling stars, and the former who lost his life in a suspected ‘hit and run’ incident in Australia on Sunday last.
Mr Kelly was a father of four and worked as a successful Physical Education teacher and athletics coach.
A teacher many years ago at St.Leo’s in Box Hill, Tom spent his time away from coaching at schools such as Xavier College, Genazzano College and Whitefriars amongst others.
A Life Member of both Box Hill and Doncaster Athletics Clubs, Mr Kelly had been an integral part of the Victorian athletics community across many decades. From hurdlers to marathoners, for generations Tommy had been developing Victorian athletes from little athletics through to the Olympics.
His most recent international success story was London Olympian David McNeill, whom he developed from a schoolboy to a Zatopek & NCAA Champion and world championship and Olympic representative over 5000m and 10,000m.
Mr Kelly, aged 82, was uncle of Tipperary hurling stars Eoin Kelly and Paul Kelly and was found dead by Victoria Police on Sunday, on Birmingham Road, Melbourne. Mr Kelly is understood to have been struck by a vehicle while seeking directions to the home of another athlete.
A regular visitor to Mullinahone and his native Tipperary, especially for All-Ireland hurling finals, Mr Kelly had emigrated to Australia originally in 1956, some 57 years ago.
The Kelly family in Mullinahone learned of the incident from one of their late brother’s Australian daughters. Tommy’s funeral will be held in the coming days.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) intend to extend their new Hawk-Eye Technology to Semple Stadium in the not too distant future.
Despite the major error which incorrectly adjudged Barry Nash’s point as having gone wide in Limerick’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final defeat to Galway last month, Mr Páraic Duffy Director General of the Association, has wholeheartedly backed this new technology and believes it will serve the GAA well into the future.
Mr Duffy forecasts that it will be introduced to Semple Stadium here in Thurles by possibly 2014, because Thurles is predominantly a hurling venue.
Hawk-Eye’s value was very obvious in the recent All-Ireland minor SFC semi-final, when it correctly overruled an umpire’s decision that a shot had gone wide.
 Superb Action Photographs From Tipperary V Kilkenny Intermediate Hurling Match In Nowlan Park Yesterday. (Photographer John O’Loughlin.) Defending champions Tipperary, following their success in the final in Thurles last year, arrived in Nowlan Park yesterday evening, intent on proving once again their dominance over the Cats, thus achieving their seventh win in the series.
Their intention would be no way compromised, winning as they did by a comfortable margin of 3 points; final score 2-14 to 2-11.
Tipperary led for most of the opening quarter of the match, but Kilkenny managed to pull level, with 5 points apiece after approximately 21 minutes. However, Tipperary would regain their resourcefulness just three minutes later in the 24th minute, with to a goal from the star of the match Ruari Gleeson. Tipperary left the field at the interval leading just 1-07 to 1-06; Kilkenny’s goal coming from Thomastown’s ace Jonjo Farrell.
No scoring for the first seven minutes of the start of the second half was to be soon cut short with a point from Clonoulty’s Timmy Hammersley and a second goal from Ruari Gleeson. The latter which was brought about in the 39th minute, and was probably the deciding factor which swung it for the deserving victors.
It took until the 58th minute for Kilkenny to reduce a Tipperary 5 point lead with Jonjo Farrell smashing home his second goal for the Cats, to leave a mere 2 points lead. However, it was Tipperary’s Ruairi Gleeson who once again widened the divide with a further point, making him top scorer in the match while also delivering a well earned win for Tipperary.
There was no doubting Tipperary superiority when it came to possession yesterday; however Kilkenny’s attempts to doggedly hold on, to the death, against superior and gutsy odds, ensured that Tipperary’s possession gained minimal recognition on the actual scoreboard.
For the Tipperary hurling faithful, yesterdays win brought sunshine to a somewhat rather rainy 2013, here in the “Home of Hurling.”
Click HERE for more pictures of yesterdays hurling action.
Scores: Tipperary; R. Gleeson [2-1], T. Hammersley [0-5], N. O’Meara [0-4], D. Egan [0-1], W. Ryan [0-1], D. O’Hanlon[0-1] , and C. Kenny [0-1].
Scores: Kilkenny; J.J. Farrell [2-0], R. Hickey [0-5], L. Harney [0-1], D. Langton [0-1], C. Phelan [0-1], J. Brennan [0-1], D. Walton [0-1], and P. Holden [0-1].
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