St Flannan’s progress to a semi-final meeting with Connacht champions St Raphael’s on Monday week.

Fourteen-man St Flannan’s College survived a ferocious battle with St Kieran’s College in the All Ireland Post Primary Schools senior A hurling championship quarter-final at Mallow today.

CBC, who fell to St Flannan’s in Sunday’s Harty Cup decider, have been afforded just five days to pick themselves up from the disappointment of that Munster final defeat.

THE young Irish schoolteacher who was killed in a tragic New York rooftop fall on Friday was due to return to Ireland today it has emerged.

PADJOE WHELAHAN was last night ratified as the new manager of the Limerick senior hurling team for a two-year period.