An uninterrupted seven-point first-half scoring burst set NUI Galway on their way to the quarter-finals of the Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup as they proved superior to CIT last night.

UCC’s defence of the Fitzgibbon Cup stayed on track as they booked a home quarter-final with victory over Cork IT at the Mardyke on Sunday.

The former All-Ireland winner with Cork and Newtownshandrum recently stepped down as coach of Charleville having led them to Cork Premier intermediate honours in 2018.

Christmas has come early for the grassroots GAA in Munster with over €1.3m allocated in this year's development grant scheme.

Cork GAA chiefs have published its club-by-club rankings table which will form the basis for new county championship structures from 2020 on.

Charleville hurley maker Tony McCauliffe lives and breathes GAA. He inherited the North Cork business that makes custom hurleys for some of Munster’s biggest stars from his father, writes Ellie O’Byrne.

When Glen Rovers run out onto the field this Sunday in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, it’ll be a familiar experience for many of their players.

Earlier this year, clubs agreed that the teams who reached this year’s senior hurling and football championship quarter-finals (excluding divisions) would be guaranteed premier senior status for 2020

All-Ireland pennants are very hard to come by so Charleville were overjoyed when they claimed their second win in the AIG Pierce Purcell Shield since 2006 with a heart-stopping 3-2 over Castlebar at a wet and windy Westport.

Tomorrow at Páirc Uí Rinn (5pm), Glen Rovers face Newtownshandrum in the last eight of the Cork senior hurling championship — the city club’s first quarter-final appearance since 2016.

For long stages in this compelling Cork SHC third round in Mallow on Saturday, it looked like championship newcomers Charleville might prevail.

Charleville proved too strong for 14-man Mallow in the RedFM Division 2 HL final in Buttevant today.

Cork have opted to go with an unchanged side for Saturday evening’s Munster SFC final against Kerry in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7pm).

Mallow remain top of Division 2 of the RedFM Cork Hurling League as they made it seven wins from nine.

Carlow hurler Paul Coady says his team have not been treated as equals in the Liam MacCarthy Cup, and a Championship restructure should keep them in the competition.

Tonight, Cork face a Waterford side in crisis but the Leesiders are forewarned.

The West Cork derby meeting of Carbery Rangers and Castlehaven is the stand-out tie in the second round of the Cork SFC following the draws at tonight’s county board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

My first championship match as Clare manager in 2004 was my ultimate nightmare. We went into the match as hot favourites but Waterford annihilated us.

There’s one change to the Cork minor hurling team for this Sunday’s Munster MHC round-robin clash against Limerick.

A pair of winning points of real quality from Darragh Fitzgibbon, at the end of the second period of extra-time, finally put daylight between these two teams after a pulsating and fiercely contested Cork SHC first round at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

It became all too easy for Blackrock with a runaway victory over Ballyhea in the second game of the Cork SHC double-header at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday

Cork SHC: Erin’s Own 3-7 Ballymartle 2-8

Robbie O’Flynn is in a race against time to prove his fitness for Erin’s Own ahead of their Cork SHC tie with Ballymartle on Saturday.

Ger Millerick has been named in a strong Cork hurling team to face Kilkenny in Wednesday night's "Kieran O'Connor Benefit Game" in Páirc Uí Rinn.

An 82nd-minute penalty from Chris O’Leary gave UCC a dramatic win over DCU in a tense Fitzgibbon semi-final tonight. Tom Kingston’s side held on, despite a late, late penalty appeal from their opponents, to celebrate a first final appearance in six years.

No county has taken as much satisfaction from the All-Ireland club hurling scene as Galway.

Nobody in Charleville needed reminding about how fickle half-time scores can be.

Members of the Burke family will leave south Galway this weekend and head to two different north Dublin destinations with similar goals and aspirations in mind.

Niall Burke finished with 11 points as Oranmore-Maree saw off the challenge of St gall's in today's All-Ireland Club Intermediate Hurling Championship semi-final at Parnell Park.

Andrew Cagney’s goal entering the final quarter of the game was the crucial score as Charleville edged out Graigue-Ballycallan in this All-Ireland intermediate club hurling semi-final in Thurles.

One of the most significant buildings of its type in Limerick has been thoroughly renovated and now has an energy rating that’d be the envy of many a new home, writes Trish Dromey.

To label this Charleville’s finest hour would be incorrect, would be misleading. Far more accurate is it to catalogue their second-half performance as the most outstanding 33 minutes of hurling ever produced by a Charleville team.

Cork champions Charleville had too much pace and firepower for a depleted Lixnaw side in Saturday’s AIB Munster Club IHC semi-final.

Kerry champions Lixnaw have been dealt a major blow ahead of their Munster Intermediate club hurling semi-final with Cork champions Charleville with news that talisman John ‘Tweek’ Griffin will miss the game with a broken hand.

The red-and-white colours on show in Charleville aren’t left over from Cork’s journey in the championship.

A municipal district council is likely to become the first in the country to ban the setting-up of gaming arcades in its jurisdiction.

Cork’s side for tonight’s Munster U21HC semi-final against Waterford in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7.30pm) will feature five players who have played in this year’s provincial senior championship while none of the Déise side saw action.

The Cork footballers will enjoy a seven-week run-in to their Munster SFC semi-final on June 3.

UCD put one foot in the quarter-finals of the Fitzgibbon Cup thanks to this surprise win away to UCC.

UCC 1-19 - CORK IT 0-12: UCC’s class was always going to be the telling factor. And so it proved, even if it took a little longer than expected to boil to the surface.

Both Charleville and Douglas GAA clubs have been thrown out of the Cork Premier U21 Hurling championship and face up to €2,500 in fines each as a result of the behaviour of mentors and players in a fourth-round tie last Saturday week.

The practices at Charleville Credit Union (CCU) that led to the appointment of a liquidator have been causing concern for over a decade, beginning with a 2007 inspection by the Registrar of Credit Unions (RCU), which found its top 100 loans accounted for 42% of all borrowings.

Mallow Credit Union has applied to the Central Bank to have its area of operation extended to cover Charleville where the neighbouring town’s credit union closed last month.

The M20 motorway between Cork and Limerick will enhance the entire region economically and socially while bringing new life to towns like Charleville, Co Cork.