Alan Connolly scored 2-9 as Blackrock recorded an impressive 3-19 to 0-13 win away to city rivals Douglas in the Division 1 of the RedFM Hurling League on Sunday.

The Dr Harty Cup is heading back to Ennis after St Flannan’s College claimed their 22nd title in Mallow today, their first since 2005.

Sarsfields made it two wins from two in the RedFM SHL as goals from Luke Hackett and Ben Graham helped them to a 2-8 to 0-11 win away to Bishopstown.

It was a bitter pill to swallow for the Leesiders, who have been UL’s victims on each occasion.

Options, options, options. For all the pieties to be heard after NHL games, managers are keeping an eye out all the time for options.

“In terms of tradition,” says Tony Wall, “it is David versus Goliath”.

GAA boffins today finalised the most demanding club fixtures matrix in the GAA - Cork’s county championship schedule.

There are six changes to the Cork side for this evening’s Allianz HL Division 1 Group A clash with Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7pm).

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.

Some tasty club rivalries are set to ignite this April as Cork released a master fixture plan for 2020.

The Rebels’ team includes Colm Spillane, who made his return to red-and-white in Tuesday night’s Canon O’Brien Cup game against UCC at the Mardyke after missing 2019.

Honours to CBC in this Harty Cup quarter-final, the city side edging out St Colman’s by the bare minimum at Watergrasshill, holding out in additional time as the east Cork school laid siege to their goal.

Kieran Kingston has named a side with a mix of youth and experience.

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.

They outscored CBC nine points to one in the fourth quarter.

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

The game will mark the first for a Tipperary club in a senior Munster hurling final in seven years, facing a Ballygunner side in their third in a row, their fourth in five seasons.

In testing conditions, they were forced to play three-quarters of this third round a player down after Jarlath Collins received a straight red card for an altercation with an opposing player in the 18th minute.

The West Cork group of death in the new-look Cork premier senior football championship and city clubs Glen Rovers, the Barr’s, and Na Piarsaigh being lumped in together in hurling’s top grade are the standout draws for next year’s revamped Cork county championship.

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

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher said losing the Cork county final took its toll.

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher admitted after this Munster Club SHC semi-final in Semple Stadium yesterday that the better team won, and he couldn’t have given a more honest appraisal.

Clonmel Commercials and JK Brackens will contest the Tipperary football decider this Saturday (Semple Stadium, 2.30pm), the Templemore club less than pleased with the decision to take the final out of its traditional Sunday slot.

Last Sunday’s Cork county final made it real for Donncha O’Connor.

Nemo Rangers manager Paul O’Donovan would prefer if the Cork SFC was a club-only competition.

Relive a historic three-in-a-row win for Imokilly in enthralling final for the ages

Mistakes by goalkeepers which lead to scores are always magnified, particularly those that involve short puckouts. It was a defensive mistake by Glen Rovers that handed the East Cork side the golden opportunity to goal for the second time just before the break.

Before you make your position known you had better state your terms.

Any time you lose there are a regrets, and there will be plenty of them for Glen Rovers to chew on over the winter.

All the GAA action is here.

A Séamus Harnedy goal in first-half injury-time proved to be the vital score as Imokilly created history in Páirc Uí Rinn this afternoon as they completed the three-in-a-row in the Cork SHC.

Glen Rovers face Imokilly in tomorrow’s Cork senior hurling final, the kind of bald covering statement that covers a century-plus of history.

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher nods when you ask about his club’s recent record in county finals. Sunday’s meeting with Imokilly is a fifth final appearance in the last decade, but Kelleher says that doesn’t make it less of an occasion.

Given no team has been able to lay a glove on them these past three years, you’d think Imokilly wouldn’t have a score to settle with anybody.

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.

After a terrific encounter, Midleton claimed their second consecutive Rebel Óg Premier 1 MHC title at Páirc Uí Rinn tonight, while also gaining revenge for the 2017 decider which went the way of Glen Rovers.

Experienced Glen Rovers defender Stephen McDonnell is a serious injury doubt for the Cork SHC final.

Glen Rovers eased into their fourth Cork SHC final in six years courtesy of this facile victory over an outclassed Carrigtwohill side.