Terenure will be competing in Division 1B of the Ulster Bank League following their exploits at the weekend.

THE Round Robin season is upon us.

Aidan Murphy had the first win of the 2012 Munster senior championship when he beat Martin Coppinger in the last shot at Baile Mhuirne in Pool A on Saturday.

THE draw for the 2011 Cork senior football championship, which pairs champions Nemo Rangers with Ballincollig, threw up two interesting west Cork derbies, featuring Ilen Rovers and Carbery Rangers, and O’Donovan Rossa against Clonakilty.

The draws for the 2011 Ulster Bank Higher Education Football and Hurling Championships, including the draw for the centenary Sigerson Cup, were made at UCD's Astra Hall this afternoon.

THE groupings for next season’s Munster College’s senior hurling (Dr Harty Cup) and senior football (Corn Uí Mhuirí) championships have thrown up some very interesting matches.

Ireland beat France at the National Stadium in Dublin today to claim international Round Robin glory.

Beijing-bound John Joe Nevin believes that the Irish junior squad have the talent to do a Round Robin double at the National Stadium in Dublin this weekend.

‘Sunday Game’ pundits who call on refs to ‘let the game flow’ even when a foul has been committed… the Cork football and hurling panels and their recent performances… Managers of losing teams…the Munster Council for not allowing reduced student admission prices to stands at big matches … too many lopsided games in both the hurling and football championships … There’s no shortage of targets for the fans’ anger this week.

LIMERICK U21 coach Ollie Coffey has blasted refereeing standards and claimed that too many “decisions tend to go against the weaker counties”.

Dublin Senior football selector David Billings has been slapped with an eight week suspension from all GAA activities for "persistant verbal abuse of officials" in UCD's recent Round Robin victory by 1-14 to 0-13 over St. Patrick's, Drumcondra on February 14 last.

THE Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) gets down to more serious business tomorrow, with three quarter-finals down for decision.

WITH the first round of games having taken place, this weekend’s matches in the AIB All-Ireland Junior Round Robin series will take on extra significance as the sides will have a clearer idea what effect the result will have on their senior aspirations.

THE two recent Harty Cup games between Thurles CBS and Our Lady’s, Templemore, produced classic games and followers will be hoping for more of the same this weekend with the semi-finals down for decision.

CORK senior camogie team will be under no pressure to deliver a three-in-a-row in the All-Ireland championship according to team trainer Fiona O’Driscoll.

LIMERICK, seeking their first NHL title since Tom Ryan guided them to glory nine years ago, may be without top scorer Mark Keane for Sunday’s decider against Kilkenny in Thurles.

HOLDERS Cork will field seven of the squad which trounced Limerick in last year’s provincial final in tomorrow night’s opening round of the ESB Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds (6.30).

WITH their hurlers safely through to the Harty Cup final, St. Flannan’s bid to get their footballers through to the Corn Uí Mhuirí decider when they take on Tralee CBS in the semi-final at Glin tomorrow (2.30pm).

CHAMPIONS St Flannan’s face arch rivals St Colman’s in an enthralling Dr Harty Cup (Munster Colleges SHC A) semi-final pairing at Claughan tomorrow (2.30pm).

LIAM Donoghue might never have made it to the top in hurling if he hadn’t been patient, if he wasn’t prepared to keep up his standard at club level and wait for the opportunity to make the goalkeeping position on the Galway hurling team his own.

Jim O’Sullivan

GALWAY minor manager Mattie Murphy is hugely disappointed at the decision not to play the All-Ireland hurling semi-finals in Croke Park as curtain-raisers to the senior games.

THERE are still a lot of questions to be answered in relation to the ultimate destination of the Liam McCarthy Cup.

MICHAEL SLOCUM knows the heartache of losing a Corn Uí Mhuirí final.

Following the completion of the Round Robin series of games in the Dr Harty Cup, the following are the winners and runners-up of the four groups, and are through to the quarter-finals after Christmas.

COLÁISTE Chríost Rí go into tomorrow’s Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final clash with St Brendans (Carrigadrohid, 2pm) without the influential Roy Leahy.

IT’S a tribute to the commitment of their coaches and in particular to Jack O’Connor that Coláiste na Sceilge are still on course for a third Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster colleges SFC) title in a row.

TRALEE CBS have been awarded the two points from their game with Intermediate School Killorglin after the latter failed to turn up for the match.