Jamie Barron says the UCC players are not to blame for the furore surrounding their involvement in the Cork senior hurling championship.

Dr Crokes 1-11 Castlehaven 0-08

Reflect, regroup and return stronger. That’s the challenge facing Cork manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy after Sunday’s drawn All-Ireland SHC final.

Cork defender Lorcan McLoughlin is hoping “common sense” prevails and Pat Horgan is cleared to face Kilkenny in the All-Ireland hurling quarter-final on Sunday week.

St. Ita's clubman Seamus Harnedy will make his Championship debut for Cork when they take on Clare in Sunday's Munster SHC semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 4pm).

It looks increasingly unlikely that Patrick Cronin will be fit to lead Cork into battle against Clare in Sunday week's Munster SHC semi-final.

Visualisation, they say, is half the battle and St Vincent’s captain Jonathan Buckley has seen himself on the steps of the stand in Mallow tomorrow afternoon.

Cork referee John Sexton will make a round trip of almost 300 miles this weekend to take charge of the Leitrim senior hurling championship final.

Erin’s Own coach PJ Murphy has called for a re-structuring of the Cork county SHC.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 3-14 UCC (Cork) 2-10, Fitzgerald Stadium

UCC manager Paul O’Keeffe has revealed they never entertained the prospect of persuading Johnny Buckley and Daithí Casey to line out for the third-level outfit in the forthcoming Munster Club SFC.

THEY may have just won two senior championships in two different counties in the space of two weeks but Kerry senior panellists Johnny Buckley and Daithí Casey are eyeing up yet more honours this season.

REACHING your first county senior hurling final is a day to cherish and Cork IT did that in style in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

“MAKE sure you write that Denis Walsh should be looking at a few of these Meelin lads for next year.”

A SCRAPPY encounter in this Munster club IHC semi-final in Ballyagran yesterday, but a dominant second-half performance was enough to see Ballymartle qualify for the final against Tipp side Borrisokane in Mallow on Sunday week.

IT’S hard to believe that a decade has passed since the death, in a construction accident, of Limerick hurling great Tommy Quaid.

GAA President elect Christy Cooney received a standing ovation at Tuesday night’s Cork County Board meeting.

Cork Under-21 football selector Michael O'Loughlin has seen it all in the past with the Rebels senior side and the Kanturk native is hoping that he and his backroom colleagues can help mastermind a Cork success in Saturday's Cadbury's All-Ireland U-21 final.

WITH Cork’s Munster SHC semi-final against Clare only three weeks away, John Allen and the Cork selectors will be keen, if nervous, observers as the Cork SHC and IHC kicks off in earnest this weekend.

THE RACE to dislodge Ballygunner as Waterford senior hurling champions begins this weekend with four very attractive first round games.

THE All-Ireland “B” and “C” colleges finals are also to be decided this weekend.

CORK intermediate football champions Carbery Rangers are chasing their third Munster championship title in a row when they play Limerick champions Pallasgreen in the provincial decider tomorrow.

ARDFINNAN produced a tremendous display of passion, pride and no little football at Cashel to take the Tipperary SFC title for the first time in 31 years.

St Catherines 1-15 Glen Rovers 0-15

St. Brogan’s, Bandon 2-15 Coachford College 0-10

KILMURRY/IBRICKANE hope to emulate the feat of fellow Clare club Doonbeg by winning tomorrow’s AIB Munster Club SFC title for the first time.

IN his first year in county team management Kerry junior football coach Connie Murphy has certainly worked the oracle with his charges and is confident they can round off the season with an All-Ireland title.