Blackrock 2-18 Newtownshandrum 2-9: Blackrock swept past Newtownshandrum in the second half of Saturday’s RedFM SHL final at Páirc Uí Rinn to capture the title for the first time since 2008.

Munster’s boys teams will hope to find the cohesion necessary to challenge at this weekend’s U16 and U18 interpros in Belfast.

Cork county championships latest: last year's semi-finalist out.

Midleton 2-16 Bishopstown 0-12: There was only going to be one winner from this first-round Cork SHC clash in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday and yet it wasn’t so much a case of 2013 champions Midleton being comfortably in control all through, more an issue of how closer Bishopstown might have been had they not accumulated 17 wides.

Ireland’s top international hockey players will assemble in the early hours of Sunday morning to find out whether their Olympic qualification dream can become a reality.

Glen Rovers 1-22, Newtownshandrum 2-12

Newtownshandrum 3-18 Blackrock 1-18: A dynamic display from Newtownshandrum in Mallow yesterday saw them advance to a Cork SHC quarter-final tie with Glen Rovers.

Newtownshandrum 0-29 Sarsfields 0-27 (AET): Newtownshandrum rolled back the years in Fitzgerald Park, Fermoy yesterday, sending favourites and current champions Sarsfields down the route of the losers’ rounds of the Cork SHC after this epic extra-time first round victory.

Having incurred their first loss against Newtownshandrum on St Patrick’s Day, the 2013 county champions responded emphatically, ending up 2-18 to 0-13 winners.

Eoghan Keniry scored 1-3 and Dan Landers contributed eight points as Killeagh inflicted a second successive defeat on county champions Sarsfields in the RedFM SHL at Riverstown yesterday.

Cork football champions Ballincollig open the defence of their first title with a repeat of their opening fixture in this year’s competition.

Former Antrim hurling manager Jerry Wallace is to take charge of his native club Midleton for the coming season.

The third annual Reardens Club All Star awards take place next Monday at 7.30pm, with 45 hurlers and 45 footballers in contention to be recognised for their excellence in the senior championships this season.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s future as Cork senior hurling manager could be determined by next week.

Na Piarsaigh 3-15 Newtownshandrum 0-14

It’s been a topsy-turvy year for Na Piarsaigh.

Newtownshandrum 1-19 UCC 0-21

It’s a year to the day since Kaitlin Roig barricaded herself and 15 first-graders in a bathroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School, hiding from a gunman who would go on to kill 26 in an 11-minute rampage.

A YEAR on, dolls fill the shelves of a living room and flowers and rainbows decorate a kitchen window next to a little girl’s name: Avielle.

With a first county senior hurling title since 1991 safely under their belt, the next focus for Midleton has to be the Munster title — so says former great John Fenton. The only Cork club to have won the provincial crown since his own side did it in 1987 has been Newtownshandrum.

Newtown Blues (Louth) 0-12 Tullamore (Offaly) 1-07

All fixtures are tomorrow unless stated

The moment of truth has arrived, only two teams standing, the two best teams in the country. And they ARE the two best teams, they’re in this final completely on merit.

Kiltegan qualified to meet championship favourites Baltinglass in a Wicklow SFC quarter-final after beating Éire Óg, Greystones (2-16 to 2-13) in a thrilling replay at Aughrim on Saturday.

One place remains up for grabs in Wicklow’s SFC quarter-finals after Éire Óg Greystones and Kiltegan played a 1-7 to 0-10 draw in their second round qualifier match at Aughrim yesterday.

Douglas 3-19 Newtownshandrum 1-15

Sarsfields will be hoping that beating Ballinhassig in the Cork SHC first round is an omen, as they achieved that in 2008 before ending a 51-year wait for a county title.

Erin’s Own 0-16 Ballymartle 0-11

Newtownshandrum 2-27 Ballymartle 2-23 (after extra time)

Cork senior hurler Patrick Horgan was on fire for Glen Rovers against Courcey Rovers in the RedFM SHL though the game ended level following a thrilling encounter.

Former Clare player and manager Ger O’Loughlin is taking over as Newtownshandrum manager.

Children who escaped the Connecticut massacre are returning to classes today in a refurbished school named after their old one.

Officials in Newtown, Connecticut, are asking people to stop sending gifts to the grief-stricken community following the deadly school shooting, saying they are deeply grateful but can not handle the donation deluge.

Former GAA President Christy Cooney is set to take over the management of his home club, Youghal, for the coming year.

Padraic Maher is one of the best hurlers in the country at the moment and has the medal haul to prove it.

Every hurling county has its renowned clubs. Tullaroan, Mooncoin, Mount Sion, Toomevara, Thurles Sars, Cork’s big trio of Glen Rovers, Blackrock and St. Finbarr’s, all roll off the tongue.

Na Piarsaigh 1-15 Newtownshandrum 1-11

An injury-time point by Ben O’Connor earned Newtownshandrum a deserved draw in this entertaining fourth round tie at Mallow on Saturday night.

Huge relief for Newtownshandrum at Kilworth on Saturday, heartache though for Killeagh, their Trojan effort to cause a huge Cork SHC upset thwarted in extra-time by two cracking Cathal Naughton goals, leaving them with a tricky backdoor clash with Cloyne.

Huge relief for Newtownshandrum at Kilworth on Saturday, heartache though for Killeagh, their Trojan effort to cause a huge Cork SHC upset thwarted in extra-time by two cracking Cathal Naughton goals, leaving them with a tricky backdoor clash with Cloyne.