Skibbereen CS 5-9 Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra 1-11: A deluge of goals brought the new Skibbereen CS their first Corn Uí Mhuirí win as they triumphed at Kilmurry yesterday, but it wasn’t enough to prevent their elimination.

A leading Cork Ladies Football Board official has described speculation linking senior boss Eamonn Ryan with a switch to the men’s team as “a bolt out of the blue”.

Scoil Phobail Sliabh Luachra 2-12 Coláíste Chríost Rí 0-8: The Munster and All-Ireland champions comfortably defeated on the opening afternoon, and now the scalp taken of Cork’s most successful football nursery.

Pobalscoil Sliabh Luachra, Rathmore 4-12 Pobalscoil Chorcha Dhuibhne 2-9: Sliabh Luachra Rathmore caused a major upset in the opening round of this season’s Munster Colleges, Corn Ui Mhuiri Group C, with a comprehensive win over the Corn Uí Mhuirí winners of the last four years, Corca Dhuibhne.

Two Kerry football clubs have hit out at the Munster Ladies Council for forcing at least eight players to play two games in a day.

A LATE point by Yvonne Twomey saw Donoughmore win the Cork Evening Echo Ladies SFC final by a solitary point in Cork IT yesterday.

St. Brogan’s, Bandon 2-9 Coláiste Treasa, Kanturk 2-5

ST BROGAN’S College Bandon set out tomorrow in search of the first of a possible two All-Ireland titles when they play Ferbane Schools in the “A” SFC final in Cashel (3.30pm).

THE first of several possible championship clashes between Kerry and Cork this year takes place at Dunmanway, Co. Cork tomorrow in the Munster inter-county vocational schools SFC final (2.30).

St Brogans, Bandon 3-7 Scoil Phobail, Sliabh Luachra 0-11