Cork’s 2017 season opened in promising fashion last night as an experimental outfit eased past the challenge of Tipperary.

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Stephen Cronin, Patrick Kelly, and Colm O’Neill come into the Cork side for today’s qualifier clash with Donegal in Croke Park (4pm).

There was late drama at today's EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final between Mayo and Dublin at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.

“I imagine people weren’t expecting us to win in Waterford this year,” says Ballygunner selector Gary O’Keeffe.

Tipperary 2-17 Dublin 1-15: When eventually the Dublin dam gave way, Liam Cahill’s young charges flooded through to devastating effect – seven-points in the final 12 minutes comfortably progressing Tipperary to the All-Ireland minor final.

Treating Gardaí as ‘blue collar workers’, pardon the cliché, is despicable. While sneaking pay cuts in the back door is downright insulting.

In relation to the depiction of violence, there are two ways in which it can be shown. it can be shown dispassionately or it can be glamorised and that is the nub of the problem.

By Rónán Mac Lochlainn

Samsung says the Oscars selfie that went viral was a “surprise for everyone”, after reports it was part of a pre-planned marketing stunt by the company, a sponsor of the Academy Awards.

Dublin football manager Jim Gavin believes that the Allianz Football League should not begin until April.

A former Dublin football player accused of breaking an off-duty garda’s jaw during a football match has said he was reacting to his opponent hitting him in his testicles first.

A former Dublin football player accused of breaking an off-duty garda's jaw during a football match has said he was reacting to his opponent hitting him in his testicles first.

Ballymun Kickhams and St Vincent’s will contest the Dublin SFC final after respective semi-final wins over St Jude’s and Ballyboden St Enda’s at Parnell Park last night.

Ballyboden St Enda’s advanced to the to the Dublin SFC quarter-finals following a controversial win over Kilmacud Crokes on Saturday.

Kerry’s team for tomorrow’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary at Seán Treacy Park in Tipperary town shows four changes from the side that defeated Limerick in last week’s semi-final.

Bryan Sheehan, Anthony Maher and Aidan O’Mahony make their first starts of the year for Kerry in tomorrow’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Kilmacud Crokes and Ballymun Kickhams meet in next Monday’s Dublin SFC final after semi-final wins over St Brigid’s and St Jude’s, respectively, in Parnell Park yesterday.

THERE’S plenty of hopeless cases out there, but St Jude’s probably isn’t one of them.

SEVEN of the Dublin team defeated in last August’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork will be in action for tomorrow’s annual Dub Stars clash at St Brigid’s GAA club in Castleknock at 3.15pm.

THE draw for the Dublin SHC quarter-finals was made following the conclusion of the group stages on Saturday evening.

THE incredible success story that is St Gall’s continued at Glenalbyn on Saturday, as the All-Ireland club champions added the oneills.com Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland senior football sevens title to their list of achievements.

Dubs Stars 3-13 Dublin 1-10

BIG house, big site and both can be sold separately, or apart.

ALLSTAR Nicholas Murphy returns to the Cork team for Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Dublin at Parnell Park.

DON’T let your house search be a fruitless one: up for sale with Lisney’s Cork branch is this mature four-bed semi in popular St Christopher’s Road, Montenotte, called St Jude’s — after the patron saint of lost causes.

THE importance of sport has been hugely undervalued as a way of keeping children out of trouble.

After four long months, the controversial and divisive Mark Vaughan affair finally ended yesterday with the news that the St Brigid’s club will not be taking their case to the courts and will abide by the decision of the Disputes Resolution Authority.

THE Dublin SFC gets underway this week with tomorrow night’s double-header (Na Fianna v UCD, 6.45; Kilmacud Crokes v St Brigid’s, 8) sure to draw a large crowd to Parnell Park.

THE news that plans are being drawn up for a crematorium in Cork is very welcome.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has backed novel rule changes for next year’s secondary provincial competitions which could trigger the introduction of the sin-bin into Gaelic games.

Former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds, whose wife Kathleen survived cancer, is spearheading a €1m campaign to save the lives of children with the disease.

I AGREE fully with the assertion (Irish Examiner, May 4) that those affected by mental illness “remain a largely forgotten constituency in a political no-man’s land”.

TAOISEACH BERTIE AHERN lauded the progress and development of ladies football when he launched the 2004 Suzuki NFL in Croke Park yesterday.

WITH so much poverty and pain among so many, I fail to understand why some people should have to open overseas accounts for fear of being robbed of their ill-gotten gains.

WITH juvenile crime on the increase it would be a backward step to close the prison on Spike Island.

THE CPO system appears fine until one witnesses it in operation. All that results is people’s annoyance at the manner of its operation.

AS a campaigner for prisoners’ rights and the need for appropriate rehabilitation projects to help reconstruct their lives and those of their families, I congratulate you for your editorial of June 2, under the heading “Mentally ill prisoners denied rights”.