Éamonn Fitzmaurice had questioned the proposal to complete the Hogan Cup by the fifth Sunday in the year.

Naas CBS racked up a magnificent six-point victory in Mallow today over Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne to qualify for their first Masita All Ireland PPS senior A football championship final.

St Ronan’s history-making season continued at Abbottstown when they upset the odds against Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne to reach a first-ever Hogan Cup Final.

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Kerry minor manager Peter Keane doesn’t believe his team will encounter a northern wall on Sunday.

Kerry 3-7 Galway 0-9: That 20-year famine that preceded the first of Jack O’Connor’s two minor triumphs must now surely be a distant memory down Kingdom country.

St Pat’s Maghera 2-14 Summerhill, Sligo 3-10: St. Pat’s Maghera are through to the Hogan Cup final after staging a late comeback to edge past a devastated Summerhill College Sligo team at Brewster Park in Enniskillen yesterday afternoon.

With Kerry, Donegal and Mayo all winning last weekend and Dublin likely to do likewise next weekend, the cosy consensus is that the Big Four of last year’s championship are going to have it all to themselves again this year.

Coláiste Ghobnatán manager Mickey Ned O’Sullivan has praised the goodwill of Ardscoil Rath Iomgháin in postponing the Dr O’Sullivan Cup final.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne kept alive their Hogan Cup defence in dramatic fashion at Nenagh this afternoon.

Pobalcoil Chorca Dhuibhne, Kerry 1-14 St Patrick’s, Cavan 1-11 (AET): Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne kept alive their Hogan Cup defence in dramatic fashion at Nenagh this afternoon.

Kerry minor manager Jack O’Connor believes county board bosses must appoint a Director of Football to ensure the Kingdom’s finest underage talents are not lost before transition to senior ranks.

Hogan Cup Final

Some may call it appropriate but Paul Galvin’s last act in a Kerry jersey was picking up a black card in a challenge match against Dr Crokes last month.

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Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne are banking on experience gained from last year’s campaign to drive them one step further when they face Leinster champions St Patrick’s, Navan, in the All-Ireland Colleges SAFC semi-final this afternoon (Nenagh, 1.30pm).

THERE was a distinctly solemn atmosphere when I arrived slightly late for the start of this year’s Annual Congress in Newcastle’s Slieve Donard Hotel.

BARRY JOHN KEANE has been drafted into the Kerry minor football attack at corner-forward for today’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Offaly in Newbridge.

Diarmuid Marsden and Steven McDonnell have become the most feared strike partnership in the land. And the most respected. Mark Gallagher reports.