WORLD sculls champion Sanita Puspure got an early birthday present yesterday when she won the 2019 Sportswoman of the Year award.

UCC emerged from round 2 of the Cork SFC Colleges/Divisions section with a six-point win at Ballinlough today.

Kerry defender Peter Crowley will play no part in the county’s championship plans after tearing his cruciate ligament.

The chronology of Tadhg Morley, the Kerry footballer, runs in predictably straight lines.

Boxers and those more used to bruising political debates will take part in the “Brawl in the Hall” to raise funds for the local GAA club.

St Kieran’s 1-17 Feale Rangers 1-15: A double substitution midway through the second half turned this game in favour of St Kieran’s in Cordal yesterday.

He’ll still line out when the need requires, as was evidenced by his cameo appearance during St Marys’ Division 2 league game against Gneeveguilla in early December, but for some time now Maurice Fitzgerald has been swayed by the “natural pull” of management.

All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final - St Mary’s (Kerry) 2-20 Ratoath (Meath) 1-5: Perhaps it was the talk of litmus tests and stern examinations that drove St Mary’s to such dizzying heights.

Dressing Rooms No 1 and No 2 are only feet apart at Mallow GAA’s stately Carrigoon complex, but the swing of a left foot yesterday daubed one in black and green despair, and turned the other into forever folk heroes in Tipperary.

Munster Club IFC final - St Mary’s (Kerry) 1-16 Carrigaline (Cork) 0-9: Denis Daly is looking forward to a couple of weeks away from the football field, and boy has he earned the break. 

Kerry 2-13 Cork 2-4: Even Kerry captain Cáit Lynch was surprised at the Kingdom’s nine-point victory over All-Ireland champions Cork in Saturday’s Munster SFC Championship final in Mallow, but there’s no question they deserved their 16th provincial title.

UCC secured comfortable progression to a fifth Sigerson Cup final in six years at the Mardyke this afternoon.

UCC 0-13 IT Sligo 0-8

UCC have the possibility of making history tomorrow night when they face Waterford in the McGrath Cup final (Fraher Field, 6pm), but it’s arguably a distraction they could have done without.

McGrath Cup semi-final

Castleisland Desmonds (Kerry) 2-11 Clonbur (Galway) 1-6

Castleisland Desmonds and Murroe Boher have been crowned Tesco Homegrown All-Ireland Intermediate and Junior Ladies Club Football champions respectively this afternoon.

ALL-IRELAND JFC FINAL:

Former All-Ireland winning manager Jack O’Connor reckons Martin McHugh should steer clear of Killarney following his description of Colm Cooper as a "two-trick pony".

Kildare manager Jason Ryan retains faith in the black-card rule, but insists consistency of its application remains the most important factor.

Kerry star Declan O’Sullivan, despite a leg injury, rescued Dromid Pearses (0-16 to 1-13) in a thrilling Kerry JFC quarter-final at Churchill yesterday.

Dr Crokes, even without Colm Cooper, Fionn Fitzgerald, Chris Brady and Ambrose O’Donovan, proved too strong for intermediate champions Currow in yesterday’s East Kerry SFC semi-final.

Kilcummin 0-13 Finuge 0-08

Kerins O’Rahillys 0-15 Kilcummin 1-7

Cork IT 0-18 UCC 0-11

If there was an 11th commandment which forbid us from coveting our neighbouring county, then I would be a serial sinner every time I visited Healy Park.

Kerry boss Jack O’Connor yesterday paid tribute to defender Tom O’Sullivan describing the five time All-Ireland winner as “a great corner back and a great man marker over many years.”

CORK

AS he walked off the pitch in Páirc Uí Rinn five weeks ago after watching his Cork minor football charges defeat Clare by five points, Brian Cuthbert felt it would not be the last time his side’s path would cross with the Banner outfit.

CORK crooner Derek Burke and his Co Kerry football team swung into top gear to clinch the coveted title in this year’s Celebrity Bainisteoir by a slender one-point win.

GOALKEEPER Ger Reidy has sensationally quit the Kerry football squad to concentrate on his studies.

HE may be the man in pole position but Ger Reidy insists that the identity of Diarmuid Murphy’s replacement as Kerry football goalkeeper remains uncertain.

THE availability of David Moran could be the decisive factor when Kerins O’Rahillys and Kilmurry-Ibrickane face off in tomorrow’s Munster club football final in the Gaelic Grounds.

ONE night some 43 years ago a delegation was ushered into a meeting of the Kerry County GAA Board in Tralee.

THE circumstances of Kilmacud Croke’s defeat in last year’s campaign served as a powerful motivation to the players to regain the AIB Leinster club football title.

YOU know the surname and its association with high-calibre goalkeeping during Kerry’s golden years.

Having hosted the All-Ireland Hurling Sevens last weekend, Dublin club Kilmacud Crokes are already gearing up for Saturday week's football equivalent.

KERRY and Tyrone will be strongly represented at this year’s Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland football sevens in Dublin on Saturday week.

Brendan Larkin