Pobal Scoil Chorca Dhuibhne (Kerry) 1-10 St Francis College, Rochestown (Cork) 1-10

Pobal Scoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-10 St Francis College Rochestown 1-10

Though this Corn Uí Mhuirí campaign has taken Clonakilty Community College into unchartered waters, the West Cork outfit are no strangers to the latter end of Munster campaigns.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 3-14 De La Salle 3-09

A verdict on the first black card controversy will be delivered by the Munster Post Primary CCC this afternoon.

Manager Colman O’Driscoll acknowledges the curtain is slowly falling on St Fachtna’s bid for a fourth Corn Uí Mhuirí crown.

The next school year is likely to see the finalisation of the amalgamation of colleges and vocational schools GAA competitions at post-primary level.

Look at the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour and the powerhouses of Munster Colleges football leap off the page.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne’s golden season continues.

Getting the logistics right.

Munster Colleges officials have defended their scheduling of the Dr Harty Cup final between Coláiste na Déise and Nenagh CBS which goes head to head with the glamour Allianz Hurling League clash of Kilkenny and Tipperary on February 26.

It was a battle between the competition specialists and newcomers in this Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday afternoon.

THE last two Corn Uí Mhuirí champions, St Brendan’s (Killarney) and Coláiste Chríost Rí, will meet in the quarter-final of this season’s competition, while Ardscoil Rís, chasing a third Dr Harty Cup title in-a-row, will put their crown on the line when they face Limerick city rivals Castletroy College.

LAST year’s beaten finalists De La Salle Macroom will contest the knockout stages of this year’s Corn Ui Mhuirí after a facile victory in yesterday’s Group B clash in Rathkeale.

DESPITE topping the roll of honour in Munster Colleges football with 20 senior titles, St Brendan’s have struggled to transfer their provincial dominance onto the national stage.

THE call came as a jolt to his senses. Midweek in late February 2008 and Patrick Kelly was in a pub in Limerick, watching a Champions League game with a few college friends.

WE the committee of the Cork Colleges would like to express our concern at the budget cuts in the education sector, in particular the withdrawal of substitution arrangements.

MICK FALVEY, a Kerry native who won an All-Ireland SFC medal with Dublin, has died.

“The GAA President’s Awards are about rewarding the volunteer. It’s about recognising the voluntary efforts of GAA members who seek nothing in return, work that has been going on for over one hundred years.” - GAA president Sean Kelly.

FOLLOWERS of Munster Colleges games are spoiled for choice this afternoon with three Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-finals and a Harty Cup replay down for decision.

THERE's no easy way to tell a player he's not playing in an All-Ireland semi-final. "It's the least palatable part of the job," Kerry coach Jack O'Connor said yesterday.

TIPPERARY’S Sean Fogarty has been installed as the new chairman of the Munster GAA Council, succeeding Cork’s Christy Cooney, who has completed his three-year term.

CORK Colleges break with tradition tomorrow night when Farranferris and Coláiste an Spioraid Naoimh clash under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn in the O’Callaghan Cup final (7.30 pm).

LIMERICK will field two teams in next season’s Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster colleges SFC).

TRALEE CBS have been awarded the two points from their game with Intermediate School Killorglin after the latter failed to turn up for the match.

I WOULD like to compliment Mr Brendan Larkin on his coverage of Munster Colleges Gaelic games in the Irish Examiner.

The Munster Colleges representative on the Tipperary County GAA Board has called on the association to change it¹s tune in relation to half time entertainment at major games.