With 21 Dr Harty Cup titles, St Flannan’s College’s place at the top of the roll of honour won’t be under threat any time soon.

Munster Post Primary Dr Harty Cup Final

Management at primary schools on the northside of Cork City are to meet and thrash out a way of ensuring their survival in the face of falling enrolments.

Cork’s North Cathedral was host to an ordination for the first time in 24 years at the weekend — the only ordination for the Cork Diocese this year.

A meeting between the Catholic Bishop of Cork John Buckley and three city schools has failed to bring about an agreement on how to deal with dropping pupil numbers.

A Cork primary school has strongly criticised a neighbouring school over its unapproved plans to enrol infant boys.

The first day of spring sunshine marked celebrations at a northside school in Cork City, days after a reprieve from possible closure. The 170 boys — along with teachers and parents — of Scoil Mhuire Fatima took their party outdoors at lunchtime on Friday as they marked victory in their campaign against its planned closure.

The past pupils of two Cork schools are joining forces to honour one of the country’s greatest education innovators.

The Dr Harty Cup gets under way today and, for the first time since 1928, when the competition was not held, there are no defending champions.

The Dr Harty Cup gets under way today and, for the first time since 1928, when the competition was not held, there are no defending champions.

It was the third inter-county defeat for Cork in 10 days. That didn’t help but it was the manner of it that hurt most: a 15-point defeat that would have been much more, had Tipperary not eased up on seeing the finishing line.

A former Christian Brother whose sexual abuse of three boys left them with deep, emotional scars showed not one shred of remorse for his victims, a judge said as he jailed him for five years.

One of the country’s top hurling coaches who took his own life was “lonely” following the breakdown of his marriage a year earlier, an inquest heard yesterday.

Were Cork schools always strong in Munster colleges competitions? How accurate is this perception?

Tributes were paid last night to one of the greatest ever Fitzgibbon Cup hurlers, who died unexpectedly yesterday.

It will be a time for bridging gaps as the Dr Harty Cup gets underway today, albeit with a more truncated fixture list than usual.

The jury in the trial of a retired Christian Brother accused of indecently assaulting five teenagers at the North Monastery secondary school in Cork in the 1980s failed to reach a verdict yesterday after seven hours of deliberation.

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

YOU could call it one of the great White Coat scenarios in all of sport.

THE 58 Junior Certificate students at Gaelcholáiste Mhuire on Cork’s northside learn every subject except English through the first language so there were no problems with the higher level Irish paper there.

HAVING genes from Fiji and Fermanagh — neither of them hurling strongholds — has proved no bar to a GAA legend getting the highest accolade his adopted city can offer.

Cork 8-22 North Monastery selection 0-8

LEADING athletics coach Br John Dooley has picked out Derval O’Rourke, David Gillick and Robert Heffernan as Ireland’s best Olympic medal hopes for the games in London next year.

VETERAN Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen confirmed last night that he will not contest the general election.

MY first encounter with Seán Óg O hAilpín in January 2003 as Cork hurling manager was an abrupt one – he was late for our first training session in the Old Mon Field and I had to tell him it wasn’t good enough.

THE death has taken place of Glen Rovers and Cork great, Din Joe Buckley, the last surviving member of Cork’s four-in-a-row team of the forties.

IT is unfair to blame the majority for the sins of the few in institutions run by religious orders.

YOUR columnist Matt Cooper (May 22) says he received “quite a few letters of complaint” following publication last year of an article on the Christian Brothers.

GLEN ROVERS and Cork stalwart Connie Buckley, who died earlier in the week, was the Rebel captain for the first of the four-in-a-row hurling sequence of 1941-’44.

THE man whose crime-fighting work while head of the state’s forensic science lab nearly cost him his life will be honoured tonight for bravery.

YOU reported in recent times how the North Monastery (Cork) Harty Cup team suffered huge defeats.

HURLING is Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s expression of thanks for the gifts God has given him, he reveals in a frank interview.

A US-STYLE project aimed at encouraging students in disadvantaged areas to stick with education was introduced in Ireland for the first time yesterday.

Glanmire CC 2-11 North Monastery 1-11

St Colman’s, Fermoy 2-15 North Monastery 0-6

THE Credit Union Dr Harty Cup is hotting up and, depending on results this afternoon, the season could be over for many of the 19 schools taking part.

THE Kerry tourist industry is preparing for its busiest weekend of the year.

JIMMY DOYLE entered Thurles CBS as a boy and left a man.

There will be a new name on the National cup this year after Abrakebabra Tigers knocked the reigning cup champions UCC Mardyke Demons in the semi-final at the ESB Arena yesterday.

AFTER wins in Belfast and Cardiff over the past two weekends, Cork’s Jamie McCarthy will be oozing confidence when he travels to Lisbon for Sunday’s junior international cross-country race.

ANOTHER effort is to be made within the next two weeks to try to resolve the impasse over the prospective closure of Farranferris College in Cork, which has been objected to by a number of parents and teachers. Bishop John Buckley has agreed to meet local TDs and councillors shortly to discuss the matter.