Home hunters looking for a bit of rural privacy and an individual home in an area as popular as Cork’s Rochestown should consider getting themselves to a monastery — or, at least, to Monastery Road.

He’ll stay strictly professional, save maybe the odd colourful remark, but at least one Kerry voice in Killarney tomorrow will be shouting for Cork. And it’s a very familiar voice to Cork radio listeners. C103 match commentator and raconteur Paudie Palmer.

Douglas 1-14 St Finbarr’s 0-9: The meeting of these city rivals at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday failed to live up to its pre-match billing as a tantalising first round Cork SHC derby. A contest that lacked any real intensity saw Douglas up the ante in the final quarter with a rush of scores to run out deserving winners.

Last week, in these pages, it was interesting to read the thoughts of Donegal footballer Eamon McGee on the upcoming marriage referendum.

The preparations of St Francis College, Rochestown for Saturday’s Croke Cup (All-Ireland PPS SAHC) quarter-final clash with holders St Kieran’s College of Kilkenny haven’t been conventional, to say the least.

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

St Francis College, Rochestown 1-12 Thurles CBS 2-12:

Munster Post Primary Dr Harty Cup Final

Munster Post Primary SAFC semi-final: Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 0-12 Clonakilty CC 0-6.

An initiative aimed at reviving colleges hurling in Cork city is being spearheaded by Leeside GAA legends.

One of the most promising distance runners in the country, Kevin Mulcaire, was the star of the Aviva/Munster Schools’ Track and Field Championships at Cork IT on Saturday.

Given that it is a town renowned for football, it’s perhaps surprising that Macroom’s premier footballing academy is only lately enjoying fruitful times on the pitch.

The last of the round-robin games in Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SFC) take place today with the four quarter-final places up for grabs.

Holders Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne must win against North Clare Schools in Rathkeale this afternoon to be assured a place in the last eight of Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SAFC).

Champions Waterford Colleges open the defence of their Dr Harty Cup title against Doon CBS.

Super-heroic tweets sent by a young Cork comedy writer will bring him shoulder to shoulder with Graham Norton, Alan Carr and some of the biggest names on British television at the forthcoming Bafta awards.

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

A brace of goals from St Fachtna’s outstanding corner-forward Mike Hurley early in the second half turned this Cork Colleges U16 ‘A’ football final on its head at CIT yesterday, paving the way for what was a deserved victory for the Skibbereen school.

Twice this season they failed to De La Salle, but Coláiste Chríost Rí are aiming to finally get the better of their Macroom opponents in this afternoon’s Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final in Cloughduv.

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.

ROCHESTOWN College have opted not to fulfil today’s Munster Colleges Corn Uí Mhuirí Group A fixture against West Clare Colleges in Rathkeale as a mark of respect to Rochestown teenager Caolan Mulrooney whose body was found in Cork yesterday.

ROCHESTOWN College served notice of their Corn Uí Mhuiri intentions with a commanding Group A victory over Intermediate School, Killorglin at Knocknagree yesterday.

ROCHESTOWN COLLEGE’S Gary Hartnett showed a cool head to slot an injury time penalty past St. Flannan’s keeper Killian Normoile to earn his team the narrowest of victories in their Corn Uí Mhuirí Group A meeting at Charleville yesterday.

FOR the first time in over half a century, Rochestown College will partake in the Corn Uí Mhuirí this afternoon when they face Clare’s St Flannan’s in Group A of this season’s competition.

DEFENDING champions Árd Scoil Rís face a tricky opener in the first round of next season’s Munster Colleges Dr Harty Cup.

THE funeral will take place today of the founder of Threshold, the country’s main non-profit housing advisory organisation.

SHANE QUINN is set to continue his amazing streak of victories when he contests the intermediate 3,000m at the Irish Schools Track and Field Championships in Tullamore this morning.

BRIAN GREGAN (St Mark’s, Tallaght) added his name to Patsy McGonagle’s 4 x 400m relay squad when he smashed the record with a run of 47.49 seconds at the Leinster Schools championships at Morton Stadium.

IT is a funny old market, when buyers are prepared to pay more for less, but that’s what happens sometimes at the e1 million and more mark.

It may take years to grasp the enormity of what has been achieved, but those closest to the Munster rugby phenomenon are determined that this is only the beginning. Munster’s John Kelly reflects on their Heineken Cup high and the journey of discovery that brought them there.

Saracens' Darragh O'Mahony has enjoyed a successful career in England but, when the Corkman watches Munster taking on Stade Francais in the Heineken Cup quarter-final this weekend, he will find it hard to submerge a certain sense of regret. Hugh Farrelly met him in London.

BIG and brick-faced, the four-bed family home Kilcrenagh House is pitched at a trading-up market.