Willie Duggan has been on the Mitchelstown CBS staff since 1982 and, with over 30 years of service in the classroom and in promoting GAA amongst the school’s small student populace, today marks CBS’s biggest day in sport– its inaugural appearance in an All Ireland colleges final.

The remaining six Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final spots will be decided this afternoon, with the final round of group games across the province.

With 20 titles, St Brendan’s College’s position at the top of the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour is assured for a while yet.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne will begin the quest to make Corn Uí Mhuirí history today, but their opponents will be writing a new chapter of their own.

St Brendan’s College 1-18 Abbey CBS 1-6: As championship openers go, this was a relative stroll in the park for St Brendan’s College.

Nine of the Tipperary players in Sunday’s All-Ireland minor final panel also featured this year for the county minor hurlers.

SPSL, Rathmore 2-6 Abbey CBS, Tipperary 0-8: They did it the hard way. Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra Rathmore were six points to one behind after 20 minutes and they also kicked 15 wides over the hour.

Hogan Cup final Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne v Roscommon CBS, Croke Park (A Nolan, Wicklow), 3.15pm

All-Ireland winning club football coach Tony McEntee has given a sobering summary of Gaelic football, suggesting that players at all ages and grades aren’t "technically competent".

Perhaps the most depressing aspect about the ban is that it’s not really a media ban anymore. It’s more of a superstition.

A LEADING health academic has said children’s fitness levels should be assessed at the beginning and end of each school year and given the same priority as maths and science.

Dual All-Ireland minor medallists are rare, making it an even smaller club those to have achieved that as well as winning a Dr Harty Cup.

Blackwater Community School Lismore and Our Lady’s secondary school, Templemore meet in a vital Harty Cup game in Cahir this afternoon (1.30pm).

There are six games down for decision in today’s Dr Harty Cup.

They might have won an All-Ireland title after Sunday’s final replay win over Dublin, but for some of the Tipperary minor side the celebrations have had to be cut short.

Hamilton High School secured a first-ever Dr Harty Cup win as they beat Coláiste Chríost Rí in their Group C opener at Ballygarvan.

It will be a time for bridging gaps as the Dr Harty Cup gets underway today, albeit with a more truncated fixture list than usual.

The Irish immigrants who settled in Syracuse, New York’s Tipperary Hill and named it after the county they’d left behind were a notoriously sentimental crowd.

ST COLMAN’S, FERMOY were easy winners against Abbey CBS in this Munster Colleges S‘B’FC semi-final (Corn An Uachtarán) in Ballyporeen yesterday.

FIVE years after departing Cork, John Allen is back in inter-county management.

BEFORE we get to what he’ll be saying at today’s FAI AGM, it’s worth starting with where they’re having that annual meeting because it’s something of a statement too.

THIRTY-FIVE years almost to the day since his father made his Munster debut at Ravenhill, prop Jerry Cronin will feature in the same fixture tomorrow night — as an Ulster player.

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.

MUNSTER rugby star and former international Alan Quinlan was yesterday named as the 2010 Tipperary Person of the Year.

ANOTHER rise in the overall number of applications could see increased competition for school leavers seeking entry to college in the autumn.

FOR the first time in the history of the competition a Kerry team will take part in the Dr Harty Cup for season 2009/10.

MIKE FRANK RUSSELL, still boyish after all these years, continues to manage a startled look when faced with a tape recorder.

THE four Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) quarter-finals take place this afternoon with some cracking games in the offing.

HARTY Cup champions DLS Waterford will open the defence of their title next season against Carrigaline Community School.

OCCASIONALLY I get an e-mail or a letter which should be read by a wider audience, or more pertinently by someone with some real authority. The following is one such e-mail.

THE first pair of quarter finals of the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All Ireland School Quiz took place last evening at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, when two tremendous contests ended with a mere two points separating winners from losers.

Armagh's Kevin Dyas has signed a two-year rookie contract with Australian Rules club Collingwood to become the latest young Gaelic footballer to try his luck in the AFL.

Two of Down's best known hurlers, Brendan McGourty and Gareth 'Magic' Johnson, have made the cut for the Mourne County's Dr. McKenna Cup panel.

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

ULSTER champions Abbey CBS (Down) are at full strength for Monday’s All-Ireland Colleges SFC A final against St Pats (Navan) in Dr Cullen Park, Carlow.

Abbey CBS 2-7 Holy Rosary, Mountbellew 0-7

THE most exciting schools quiz in the country moved its focal point to Limerick last night.

THERE was a nail-biting finish to the Thomas Crosbie Holdings All-Ireland Schools Quiz at the Westlodge Hotel in Bantry last night

THERE was hardly a nail left in tact in last night’s heat of the TCH All Ireland Schools Quiz.