Newcastle West and St Kieran’s have joined Adare and Oola in the Limerick SFC semi-finals after quarter-final victories on Saturday.

Tuesday’s Munster U20 final defeat to Tipperary was another disappointing day for Cork hurling. On the back of the seniors recent loss to Kilkenny, another narrow loss — similar to the 2017 All-Ireland minor final and last year’s

One evening a few weeks back, Jackie Tyrrell and I were talking about the Dr Harty Cup when I mentioned to Jackie that my Harty medal from 1987 meant far more to me than the Croke Cup (All-Ireland) I won with St Flannan’s against St Kieran’s six weeks later.

Edge, by definition, is a margin of superiority, a quality or factor that provides an advantage over rivals.

Business as usual in Kilkenny, Tipp are kidding no-one, but it’s a revision of the best-laid week-one plans for Messrs Meyler, Fanning, and Kenny, says Derek McGrath.

Presentation College Athenry are back in the Croke Cup final, back to try and topple the undisputed kings of colleges hurling.

The prospect of inter-county hurling on astroturf is growing on Tipperary GAA secretary Tim Floyd, after he confirmed that Semple Stadium will be closed for pitch repairs until May 1.

The hurlers of Midleton CBS bid to continue an excellent few weeks for the East Cork school when they take on Coláiste Eoin Stillorgan in today’s All-Ireland post-primary SHC quarter-final (Nowlan Park, 2pm).

The last four champions are still in the race for the Limerick senior football championship title.

You’d be forgiven for thinking the Croke Cup had become exclusive to Leinster and Munster schools.

Yet another Croke Cup final beckons for St Kieran’s College of Kilkenny after they held on to narrowly defeat a game Ardscoil Rís side in this second semi-final in Clonmel.

Hurling in DCU wasn’t always the picture of such rude health.

The discussion in the staff room at Our Lady’s, Templemore on Wednesday morning centred on the long list of household names who passed through their doors without ever pocketing a Harty Cup medal.

Michael Carey and Tommy Ronan play for St Kieran’s College against Our Lady’s Secondary School, Templemore in the Croke Cup final this afternoon. Their fathers, DJ and Adrian, won the competition with Kieran’s in 1988 and plenty more besides. Two great hurlers met to reminisce and fill in that generation gap, writes PM O’Sullivan.

Our Lady’s, Templemore (Tipperary) 0-24 Kilkenny CBS 2-15: Our Lady’s Templemore manager Tom Byrnes is relishing a crack at competition kingpins St Kieran’s in the Croke Cup final on Saturday week.

St Kieran’s College 3-19 St Brigid’s Loughrea 1-9: Adrian Mullen was the man of the hour as he fired St Kieran’s College back into the All-Ireland post-primary schools senior hurling final.

Glengarriff’s Darragh McElhinney’s will be one of the stars at the Irish Life Health All-Ireland Schools Cross-Country Championships in Mallusk, Co Antrim, today.

St Kieran’s College (Kilkenny) 2-12 Coláiste Cholmáin (Fermoy) 1-12: With 40 minutes played Coláiste Cholmáin had their noses in front in Clonmel as they aimed to claim All-Ireland hurling glory at U16 level but they could only manage a single point thereafter as rivals St Kieran’s grabbed control.

St Colman’s College Fermoy manager Garvan Queeney has urged his charges not to get caught up in the longstanding history they have with St Kieran’s College Kilkenny, ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Junior A hurling (U16½) championship final in Clonmel.

St Colman’s College, Fermoy 1-13 Gort Community School 0-12: After another huge battle, St Colman’s College advanced to the All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Junior A hurling (U16½) championship final. They will play St Kieran’s College, Kilkenny. 

Kilkenny hurling legend DJ Carey has taken up a key role with the county’s underage footballers.

Antrim 0-9 Limerick 2-6: They came, they saw, they conquered — that was Limerick footballers who tasted victory, at Corrigan Park in Belfast on Saturday, for the first time since April 2015, when they carved out a league win over Louth, in Drogheda.

Kerry SFC Round 2A - Dr Crokes 2-16 St Kieran’s 3-12: After a facile passage to Round 2 the previous weekend, Dr Crokes were given a much sterner examination of their Kerry SFC credentials as they just sneaked past a dogged St Kieran’s side in Cordal on Saturday.

Kerry SFC Rd 2B - Kerins O’Rahillys 3-11 Feale Rangers 1-11: Hard to know which of their opening two games in this year’s Kerry SFC Kerins O’Rahillys should use as a reference point going forward to Round 3.

St Kieran’s 1-17 Feale Rangers 1-15: A double substitution midway through the second half turned this game in favour of St Kieran’s in Cordal yesterday.

Champions Newcastle West had to find a late equaliser in their round one tie against Monaleen in the Limerick SFC.

St Kieran’s College (Kilkenny) 1-15 Ardscoil Rís (Limerick) 1-13: The terms of engagement may have been changed for this latest joust, but the students draped in black and white still prevailed.

Ahead of this weekend’s post-primary All-Ireland finals, addiction counsellor and Rosommon hurling manager Justin Campbell has called for betting on schools matches to be outlawed.

TODAY

Nine of the Tipperary players in Sunday’s All-Ireland minor final panel also featured this year for the county minor hurlers.

Kilkenny 0-26 Galway 2-20 (AET): Drama at the death in the opener at HQ yesterday — both after the 70 minutes and extra-time — but the sum of this first All-Ireland minor semi-final added up to significantly less than its parts and, in that, it was no different to the senior contest that followed.

Kilkenny minor hurling manager Pat Hoban doesn’t believe his team will be hindered by their five-week lay-off in today’s All- Ireland semi-final against Galway.