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Tipperary manager Liam Sheedy has announced just one change in the panel to play Limerick in Sunday’s GAA All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final at Croke Park.
Brendan Maher enters the side at left half-back replacing Conor O’Brien. This in the only change in the team which beat Waterford in July to take the Munster title.
The reshuffled defence will place Padraic Maher at full-back, Paul Curran at left corner back and Brendan Maher at left half-back.
The victors from this meet will face defending champions and chasing four in a row team, Kilkenny in the SHC final on 6th September.
 Team selection is as follows.
1 Brendan Cummins (Ballybacon-Grange)
2 Paddy Stapleton (Borris-Ileigh)
3 Padraic Maher (Thurles Sarsfields)
4 Paul Curran (Mullinahone)
5 Declan Fanning (Killenaule)
6 Conor O’Mahony (Newport) (Captain)
7 Brendan Maher (Borris-Ileigh)
8 James Woodlock (Drom & Inch)
9 Shane McGrath (Ballinahinch)
10 Pat Kerwick (Killenaule)
11 Seamus Callanan (Drom & Inch)
12 John O’Brien (Toomevara)
13 Noel McGrath (Loughmore Castleiney)
14 Eoin Kelly (Mullinahone)
15 Lar Corbett (Thurles Sarsfields)
For non ticket holders, the match can be followed live on RTÉ Two on Sunday next 16th August, throw-in 3.30pm.
 Semple Stadium will play host to a double bill of All-Ireland SHC Hurling quarter finals on Sunday.
The GAA have decided to play both ties between Dublin and Limerick and Waterford’s forthcoming clash with Galway at the Thurles venue.
Anthony Daly’s Dublin side will be fielded first up against Limerick, with a 2.00pm expected throw-in, while last year’s beaten All-Ireland finalists Waterford will meet up against Galway at 4.00pm.
Note: Both games will be shown live on RTE 2.
All Ireland SHC Hurling Quarter Finals
Venue: Semple Stadium:
Time: Starting 2.00p.m.
Date: Sunday 26th July next
Score: Tipperary 4-14 – Waterford 2-16
 Tipperary have successfully defended their Munster hurling title at Semple Stadium, Thurles, today with their five point win over Waterford.
The first half saw five goals in total, one each for John Mullane and Eoin Kelly,Waterford, and countered by one goal each from Tipperary’s Seamus Callanan, Lar Corbett and Eoin Kelly.
Tipp went to the dressing-room at halftime leading comfortably – 3-10 to 2-04.
Shortly after the break, Tipperary’s Lar Corbett scored the only other goal of the second half, seriously denting Waterfords resolve.
Waterford showed great character and fought hard to recover, highlighting a dangerous lack of inconsistency in the Tipperary team, not at all evident during the first half, however for Waterford, alas the target was too high and it was not to be.
Tipperary Manager Liam Sheedy was relieved, not only with this win but also with the apparent certain knowledge that a hamstring injury which forced Eoin Kelly to retire from the pitch, appears not to be as serious as was first believed.
Waterford manager Davy Fitzgerald in an interview later with reporters in Semple Stadium stated:
“The 10 or 12 minutes before half time absolutely killed us, I think of the four goals they got, possibly three of them could have been prevented to be honest, but I’m not going to cast blame at this point..The easiest thing we could have done was fold up the tent and gone home, but I think we showed character, and we must now have a serious look at the way those goals were conceded”
Meanwhile festivities continue, celebrating not only this this result, but also the GAA’s 125th Anniversary here in Thurles.
July 10th-12th 2009 will see the GAA, Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, celebrate its 125th Anniversary here in Thurles, Co.Tipperary in conjunction with the holding of the Munster Senior Hurling Final.
Events are planned as follows:
Events: Friday July 10th.
7.00pm: Civic Reception: For Comhairle na Mumhan at Tipperary Institute Thurles.
8.30pm: Historical Presentation :at the Tipperary Institute. (All members of the public are welcome to attend.)
Events: Saturday July 11th.
11.00 am: Under 12 Hurling Blitz: in Dr.Morris Park with teams from all Munster Counties.
11.00 am: Munster Long Puck Final: in Thurles Racecourse.
7.30 pm: Special GAA mass in Thurles Cathedral
8.30 pm: Munster final ‘Night at the Dogs’: in Thurles Greyhound Stadium (Note: Half price admission to patrons wearing their county GAA jersey.)
8.30 pm: Open air entertainment in Liberty Square: This event will including the official launch of the new Tipperary GAA 12 Track CD featuring the winning GAA Supporter’s Song ‘The Mighty Blue and Gold’.
9.00 pm: Arrival of torch in Liberty Square, carried in symbolic relay.
Details of this relay are as follows:
12.00 noon: Leaving Cusacks GAA, Carron, and carried through clubs in Co.Clare.
3.00 pm: Hand over at Na Piarsaigh and carried through Limerick City by Limerick GAA Clubs.
6.00 pm: Hand over to Tipperary at Finnegan’s and carried by Tipperary clubs to Thurles town.
Events: Sunday July 12th.
10.00 am: Guinness Gig-Rig: in Liberty Square.
12.30 pm: Entertainment by Artane Boys Band: in Liberty Square.
While in Semple Stadium:
2.00 pm: Munster Minor Hurling Final
2.30 pm: (Half Time): Cumann Na mBunscoil Primary Games.
3.15 pm: Arrival of Torch from Michael Cusack’s GAA Club in Co. Clare. Torch will be carried by Tipperary hurling legend Jimmy Doyle into the Stadium and presented to the Chairman of Munster Council, Jimmy O’Gorman, who in turn will light torches carried by the chairman of each Munster County.
4.00 pm: Munster Senior Hurling Final
4.40 pm: (Half Time): Presentation of Munster Senior Hurling final captains.
5.30 pm: Presentation of cup to Munster Senior Hurling Champions.
So come along folks and celebrate this very historical Munster Final week-end in Thurles Town where it all started 125 years ago, this year.
The President of Ireland Mrs Mary McAleese has paid a special tribute to horse trainer Dr Michael Vincent O’Brien who, sadly, died yesterday.
President McAleese said:
“As one of the most successful horse trainers in the industry, he played a key role in the establishment of Ireland as a centre of racing excellence”.
Dr O’Brien returned from his wife’s family home in Perth, Western Australia, just last week due to ill-health and died yesterday at his home in Straffan,County Kildare. Dr O’Brien was the owner of the Ballydoyle yard and the Coolmore stud, situated in the richest farmland in Europe, near Fethard, Cashel, Co. Tipperary and enjoyed over 75 major victories in a career that spanned more than 50 years in horse racing.
The current incumbent of Ballydoyle, Mr Aidan O’Brien said:
“It is with the greatest sadness that I learned of the passing of Dr Vincent O’Brien today. As for so many people in racing, he was my hero growing up. For my wife Anne Marie and myself to come to Ballydoyle, to the training facility he established, was an extraordinary privilege. Dr O’Brien was tireless in improving the yards and gallops and we enjoy today the benefits of his half-century of hard work and dedication”.
 The 92 year old Dr O’Brien was born in Churchtown, Co Cork in 1917. He was voted, in 2003, as the greatest National Hunt Trainer of the 20th century, and was later voted the greatest Flat Trainer of the 20th century. In a pole to find the greatest figure in the history of horse racing hosted by the Racing Post newspaper, Vincent O’Brien came first with 28% of the total vote, with his long-time stable jockey Lester Piggott placed second out of a pool of 100 contenders who had been carefully selected by a panel of racing experts.
Vincent O’Brien married author and photographer Jacqueline Wittenoom, from Perth, Australia, in 1951 and had five children. Daughters Elizabeth (widow of Kevin McClory), Susan (wife of John Magnier) and Jane (wife of Philip Myerscough); and sons Charles and David who followed in their father’s footsteps as trainers, as did Vincent’s grandson David Myerscough. Grandsons J P Magnier and M V Magnier have ridden with success as amateur jockeys.
Dr O’Brien and his wife Jacqueline latterly spent half of each year in her home town of Perth, Australia and the remainder of the year in Straffan,Co. Kildare , here in Ireland
Dr Vincent O’Brien’s funeral will take place at St Conleth’s Church in Newbridge at noon on Thursday next, followed by a private cremation. (Family flowers only)
The O’Brien family would be very grateful for donations, in lieu of flowers, to be made to The Society of St. Vincent de Paul.
Funeral arrangements will be by Fanagans Funeral Directors 54 Aungiers Street, Dublin 2, Dublin.
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