In left wing and captain Brandon Nash (a brother of Munster’s Calvin), Crescent had a real match-winner.

Ultimately, it was St Michael’s more polished forward division that earned the Blackrock club its first Cork U21 ‘A’ football title since 1976 in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Ephie Fitzgerald has made two changes to his Cork attack for today’s TG4 Munster Senior Championship clash with Kerry (Páirc Uí Rinn, 5pm).

Passage 1-13 Dungarvan 1-12: Passage manager Peter Queally let his emotions run wild at the full-time whistle after his 14 warriors battled their way to an unlikely semi-final victory.

The wait for a fairytale goes on. But oh how close New York came to making history in the Bronx last night.

Castletroy 15 St Clement’s 0: Castletroy fully deserved their 15-point victory over Limerick rivals St Clement’s in the Munster Schools Senior Cup at Rosbrien yesterday but if anything, it was the losing side that emerged with their reputation considerably enhanced after a serious competitive encounter.

All-Ireland JFC semi-final - Templenoe (Kerry) 1-9 Curraha (Meath) 0-5: Classy Templenoe continued their relentless pursuit of Croke Park glory when they saw off the stern challenge of Meath side Curraha at Kilmallock yesterday afternoon, but not before they got an early scare.

Ardscoil Rís 2-11 St Francis Rochestown 1-7: Two goals in a four-minute spell midway through the second-half propelled Ardscoil Rís into the penultimate round of the Harty Cup.

Ardscoil Rís Limerick 4-11

98 students from 15 sports have won scholarships from UCC for their sporting and academic excellence.

Galway captain Paul Conroy is confident that the Tribesmen will get their championship off to a winning start this weekend in New York.

Munster Schools Senior Cup: Castletroy 15 PBC 22

St Francis College, Rochestown 4-11Ard Scoil Rís 1-17: Dr Harty Cup semi-final: Not since Midleton CBS’s win of 2006 has a Cork school inscribed its name on the Dr Harty Cup, but the possibility of that run ending remains a live possibility after this Charleville cracker.

Harty Cup Quarter-Final

Thurles CBS (Tipperary)3-12 Ardscoil Rís (Limerick)0-12

Waterford SHC quarter-final: Dungarvan 4-10 Passage 2-14

Waterford 1-13 Clare 0-11

Castletroy College 16 Crescent College 13

Passage 1-19 Ballyduff Upper 0-17

Waterford 2-12 Kilkenny 0-16

Waterford are through to the All-Ireland minor hurling final for the first time since 1992 after a gutsy display at Croke Park.

Cork 1-20 Waterford 3-19

If perseverance and commitment count for anything, then Pat Murray will win the West Coast Hotels-sponsored South of Ireland at Lahinch today.

Stephen Coen and Adrian Marren inspired Sligo to a straight forward victory in the Bronx in this one-sided Connacht quarter-final yesterday.

Sligo 3-21 New York 0-06

Patrician Academy (Mallow) were deserving winners over Ballincollig CS at Mahon yesterday.

AGHABULLOGUE cruised into round four of the Cork IFC after brushing Ballyclough aside at Donoughmore yesterday.

The teams for this weekend's round of AIL rugby fixtures have been announced today.

Blackrock College will be able to call on the strike power of their Ireland U20s Andrew Conway and Brendan Macken in Division 1A against a Dolphin disrupted without their regular number eight James Coughlan, who has been called up by Munster.

The teams for this weekend's round of All-Ireland League rugby matches have been announced.

IT was as the bookmakers predicted; a seventh Leinster Schools’ Senior Cup title for Clongowes Wood College whose 14 points salvo in the opening minutes of yesterday’s decider at the RDS proved decisive.

ALMOST from day one of this season’s Leinster Schools Senior Cup campaign, Clongowes Wood and St. Michael’s were lined up as two of the big favourites to make this afternoon’s St. Patrick’s Day decider at the RDS (3.30).

STILL standing – that’s Mid-Tipp division champions Drom & Inch after this second Tipperary SHC semi-final in Semple Stadium yesterday.

MISSION accomplished. Kilworth are the new Evening Echo Cork junior hurling champions, but not without a mighty battle from never-say-die Dungourney.

The Leinster Junior team to face Ulster at Railway Union, Park Avenue on Saturday (3pm) is as follows:

AIB All-Ireland Club Football Final result:

All-Ireland club football final latest:

All-Ireland club football finalists Caltra have kept faith with the starting lineup that got them to tomorrow's Croke Park crunch.

Connacht club football champions Caltra have made a number of changes to their lineup ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final clash with The Loup.

Ireland 31 Australia 7

Rockwell 3 Árd Scoil Rís 8