You come up past the church on your left (St Fachtna’s, open) and the pub (Murphy’s, closed) and sweep down past the arts centre, and you are in the Adrigole GAA grounds suddenly.

Cork and Tipperary have named unchanged teams for tomorrow’s All-Ireland U20 hurling final.

A Jake Morris goal four minutes into second-half injury-time secured Tipperary a stunning Munster U20 final victory.

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.

Fitzgibbon Cup champions UCC got their Cork SHC (Colleges/Divisions section) off to an impressive start in Páirc Uí Rinn last night. Played before the Cork/Kilkenny benefit game for former Cork footballer Kieran O’Connor, they now move on to a second-round tie against Muskerry next week.

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

This isn’t a retirement statement per se. Writing this started off as my way of coping with GAA retirement. It was my way of expressing my emotions to myself. But I realised pretty quickly that there were some pretty important messages worth sharing, says Michael Sheehan.

Two second-half goals from Jack Canning delivered Galway an 11th All-Ireland minor title.

An exhibition of free-taking from Brian Turnbull ended Cork’s 10-year wait for an All-Ireland minor final appearance, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Cork’s nine-year wait for a Munster MHC final appearance is over as Denis Ring’s young troops produced a hugely impressive performance to down the reigning champions in this evening’s semi-final replay.

Glen Rovers’ quest for a third Cork SHC title in a row will begin against Bride Rovers in the 2017 preliminary round.

It’s four years since Kildorrery won the Cork county JAHC, going on to Munster glory before coming up a point short in the All-Ireland final against Thomastown of Kilkenny.

Dripsey 1-15 Grenagh 1-12: Just 12 months after they endured a 14-point loss to Grenagh and subsequent relegation play-off with St Catherine’s, Dripsey will be contesting the quarter-finals of the Cork IHC, against Kildorrery or Éire Óg.

Club championship fixtures in Cork and Kerry have been thrown into chaos due to the drawn Munster SFC final.

Cork football champions Ballincollig open the defence of their first title with a repeat of their opening fixture in this year’s competition.

The New York ladies football team did the tour of Croke Park a month ago.

TONIGHT

Mitchelstown go into tonight’s Cork IFC clash with Billy Morgan in their corner, but with a big task ahead of them against their rural neighbours, Kildorrery.

A grudge which festered for 25 years in a hurler who was denied a place in a North Cork final for Kildorrery boiled over on the sideline of a recent match when he punched the man he blamed and shouldered his wife.

St Catherine’s 1-17 Kildorrery 1-16

Following the six Cork county championship games at the weekend, the fourth-round ties and relegation play-offs are now decided in all but the SHC and IFC grades.

Cork defender Lorcan McLoughlin is hoping “common sense” prevails and Pat Horgan is cleared to face Kilkenny in the All-Ireland hurling quarter-final on Sunday week.

Thomastown (Kilkenny) 3-14 Kildorrery (Cork) 1-13

Kildorrery (Cork) 1-11 St Kieran’s (Limerick) 0-12

Kildorrery 4-19 Butlerstown 0-11

Kildorrery 2-08 Brian Dillon’s 0-13

Kildorrery 2-15 Brian Dillons 1-18

O’Donovan Rossa 1-13 Avondhu 1-09

Éire Óg 3-11 Kildorrery 1-10

Kildorrery 3-17 Harbour Rovers 1-10

A scoring surge in the final 10 minutes enabled Avondhu to pull clear of Beara at rainswept Newcestown on Saturday.

Having produced a fantastic team performance for 55 minutes, the Kildorrery players were out on their feet in the final stages of this IFC opening round clash at Rathcormac on Saturday but still did enough to survive a late Glanmire onslaught.

Ilen Rovers are the early leaders in Division 1 of the Cork County Football League – though only on point scored – after they were one of three two-point winners in the first round of games yesterday afternoon.

THE last big game of the 2011 Munster hurling calendar and, make no mistake, while the names of the two finalists may not resonate across the country, for two clubs with a long and proud hurling history this is a big game.

IN almost every breakthrough team, regardless of the sport, there’s one guy who’s been there through the years, battling away.

WHOEVER in the GAA came up with the idea of nominating a club to represent their division in a county championship has a lot to answer for.

YOU could read the story in the faces of the fans.

THE toast was absent friends.