First half goals from leading scorer Kellyann Hogan and Avril Geoghegan put the Clonmel school into a strong position having secured a seven-point interval lead.

Half an hour or so after Russell Rovers' defeat at Croke Park, Michael Mannion was still struggling to find the right words to explain it all away.

Conahy Shamrocks won their second All Ireland junior hurling club championship title today at Croke Park.

In annexing Cork and Munster championship victories, they have already shown battling qualities. The hope now, is to continue that march into the All-Ireland series.

The curtain came down on the Munster club championships with Russell Rovers taking the last piece of silverware in front of 1,610 enthusiastic spectators at the Fraher Field and adding another chapter in a fairytale season for hurling in East Cork.

Russell Rovers had too much firepower for a gallant Kilgarvan side in Saturday’s Munster Club JHC clash at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Waterford’s Ballygunner are through to the Munster club hurling semi-finals, but only after a real battle with Midleton of Cork, who put it up to the favourites in a game that went to the wire.

Cloughduv put the county final disappointments 2009, 2010 and 2015 behind them today to be crowned Cork JAH champions after a close battle with Russell Rovers at Páirc Uí Rinn.

A legal review of the Higher Education Authority’s (HEA) powers to undertake investigations and reviews in third-level colleges has held up a report on spinout companies at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) that was due out a year ago.

Higher Education Authority board members raised the role of the Department of Education in their work with a senior official less than three months before the authority’s chief executive stepped down.

Why isn’t the name of trailblazing composer Ina Boyle better known? A Cork academic has published a book to help spread the word, writes Cathy Desmond

Imokilly 1-24 Sarsfields 2-21: Paudie O’Sullivan’s 64^th-minute equaliser for Imokilly ensured that the East Cork division and Sarsfields must meet again to determine Blackrock’s opponents in the Cork SHC final.

University College Cork economist Seamus Coffey, 39, has been appointed as the head of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council by Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

Waterford 1-10 Cork 0-17: An impressive Cork side overcame a disastrous start to ease to victory over Waterford in this Munster MHC clash in Walsh Park, Waterford.

Josh Beausang’s late point earned Midleton CBS a draw against Blackwater CS at Waterford IT yesterday, but the east Cork school’s hopes of qualification to the Harty Cup quarter-finals rest on today’s game between Ardscoil Rís and Waterford’s De La Salle.

Midleton CBS 3-15 Hamilton High School Bandon 1-6: Midleton CBS proved too strong for Hamilton High School Bandon in the Harty Cup at Ballincollig yesterday, recording their first win following an opening round defeat by Ardscoil Rís.

A draft government press release announcing a blanket bank guarantee was drawn up a full six hours before the deal was even agreed.

Hamilton High School, Bandon 2-16 Midleton CBS 0-21

A MOTHER who has seen her son’s reading and maths improve dramatically fears cuts to local schools will mean her daughter does not have the same opportunity.

THE proposed new singular structure for financial regulation in Ireland – combining the Central Bank and the Financial Regulator – will be better placed to take a systemic overview of the entire banking sector, rather than just a case-by-case basis, officials from the Department of Finance told a Dáil committee yesterday.

FURIOUS workers walked out of the Irish Fertiliser Industry plant in Co Cork yesterday, many wondering if they would ever find jobs again.