2018 champions The Nire staged a miraculous comeback from ten points behind to overturn An Rinn in last night’s Waterford SFC quarter-final at Fraher Field (1-15 to 2-11).

With a new album out today and a viral hit, thanks to X Factor, Ed Power finds Kodaline in a happy place.

Junior Certificate students will no longer be asked in exams to prove Pythagoras’ or anybody else’s theorems under a revised junior cycle maths course.

Comedian Alan Shortt and Irish race walker Alex Wright will soon be stepping out to support a cancer charity walk in Cork.

Hard graft and a realistic outlook on the music business have helped keep Kodaline on an upward trajectory, writes Ed Power

Dublin rock-band Kodaline delighted fans yesterday with an exclusive gig in the most unlikely of venues — Fort Mitchell on Spike Island.

A guide to the championship won last year by Ballyhea.

Soccer legend John Hartson, who beat cancer, has urged men to check their tackle regularly in a bid to catch signs of testicular cancer early.

Two years ago, St Saviours and Ballinameela faced off in a battle to avoid the drop from top flight football but this weekend both booked their places in the Waterford SFC quarter-finals.

Kodaline are "anxious" about releasing their debut album.

Ballincollig 1-12 Fr O’Neill’s 0-08

NOTHING spectacular about this St Finbarr’s victory at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, simply a case of taking care of business.

NA PIARSAIGH claimed local bragging rights after crushing neighbours Glen Rovers in the opening round of the Evening Echo Cork senior hurling championship at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday night.

TWINS Hassan and Hussein Benhaffhaf could be home within days to begin leading a normal life.

IT was a routine journey to success for Na Piarsaigh in yesterday’s Evening Echo Cork SHC first round tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

DARRAGH Ó SÉ could return for Kerry against Galway in Sunday’s Allianz NFL clash at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

YOU’RE a Star runner-up 21 Demands yesterday made chart history by reaching No 1 in Ireland on download sales alone.

You’re a Star runner-up 21 Demands today made chart history by reaching No 1 in Ireland on download sales alone.

WATERFORD give a Munster SFC debut to corner-forward Jason Ryan for Sunday’s first-round game against provincial champions Kerry at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

JOE Canning and Damien Hayes…the names are almost whispered in dread by Newtownshandrum supporters.

Na Piarsaigh 1-9 Whites Cross 0-6

Limerick 1-13 Waterford 0-10

SENIOR players Seanie Buckley, Pat Ahern and Johnny McCarthy are included in the Limerick team to play Waterford in the Munster U21 FC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday.

Ballingarry 1-22 Na Piarsaigh 2-15 (After-extra-time)

The family of a father-of-four who died after he was punched during a pub argument claimed yesterday that the deceased had been portrayed as a villain rather than a victim. The man who assaulted him was jailed for 18 months today.

Toomevara 2-13 Na Piarsaigh 0-13

MARDYKE UCC DEMONS, the defending champions, will meet Neptune, last season’s beaten finalists, in the first round of the National Cup at the Mardyke Arena on the weekend of 20-21 November.

Na Piarsaigh 0-17 Cloyne 0-10

IT WAS called the little All-Ireland back in the days when Cork club hurling was seen as the ultimate.

Na Piarsaigh 3-10 Blackrock 1-10

PLAYER availability is the main concern for CIT as they prepare to face county and All-Ireland champions Newtownshandrum in the Cork SHC quarter-final on Sunday in Fermoy (2pm).

A Bandon man was cleared today on the charge of killing a father-of-four at a pub in the town almost two years ago.

AN inevitable consequence of the recent strides made in Limerick football has been a lowering of the profile of the county hurlers when there would have been strong hopes of a breakthrough after significant success at U21 level.

Galway 3-13 Cork 1-15

ON the weekend when Munster rugby resumes its annual attempt to conquer Europe, only one team stands between Munster hurling and dominance of the current National Hurling League.

A goal in the dying seconds of injury time from right corner-forward Kieran Murphy of Sarsfields dramatically preserved Cork’s unbeaten run in Division 1 ‘B’ of the Allianz National Hurling League at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

THE contrast between the managers couldn't have been more pronounced at Páirc Uí Rinn.

THE cobwebs and accumulated dust of the long winter lay-off was very evident in this Allianz NHL opener in chilly Limerick yesterday, as both the new-look home side and an equally-experimental Cork team struggled to find any kind of hurling fluency.

JOE DEANE will miss Cork’s NHL opener after he hobbled out of this highly competitive challenge with Galway at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

CITY club Na Piarsaigh are the only side capable of breaking west Cork’s stranglehold on the Permanent TSB Cork county senior football championship.

CORK’S famous hurling nursery, Na Piarsaigh, celebrated its 60th anniversary last Friday.

Diarmuid O’Flynn spoke to a well focused Cork hurling captain who is well aware Wexford will be lying in ambush on Sunday.

INJURY fears surrounding Cork's Tom Kenny, Mickey O'Connell and Niall McCarthy for Sunday's Guinness All-Ireland SHC semi-final clash with Wexford at Croke Park have been allayed.

IF Wexford beat Antrim next Sunday in the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final, they will meet Cork in the semi-final.

Cork's Mark Prendergast is set to miss the All-Ireland hurling semi-final on August 10.

THE injuries are mounting for Cork coach Donal O’Grady ahead of next month’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final.