The walls outside Mr Murphy’s classroom are postered with newspaper cuttings.

Reigning Dr Harty Cup (Munster PPS U18½AHC) champions Our Lady’s Secondary School will clash with John The Baptist CS of Hospital in the quarter-finals of the current competition.

Dean Ryan Cup final - Thurles CBS 3-15 - Midleton CBS 2-15: The Dean Ryan Cup is back in the hands of Thurles CBS after a highly entertaining final at Clonmel yesterday.

ARDSCOIL RÍS recorded a big victory over a young Charleville CBS side in the opening round of the Dr Harty Cup at Kilmallock today. 

Our Lady’s Templemore 3-14 Thurles CBS 1-10: Our Lady’s Templemore haven’t tasted Harty Cup glory since winning the competition for the one and only time in the school’s history back in 1978.

LAST year’s runners up Our Lady’s Templemore eased into the last four of the Harty Cup with a ten-point victory over local rivals Thurles CBS in front of a huge crowd at The Ragg this afternoon.

It’s been nine years since Thurles CBS and Our Lady’s Templemore met at the quarter-final stage of the Harty Cup. This afternoon’s clash would do well to reach the heights of the drawn and replayed fixtures from 2008.

This afternoon’s meeting of St Colman’s, Fermoy and Midleton CBS (Blackrock, 1.30pm) is one of two all-Cork Harty Cup fixtures, with Fermoy boss Flannan Cleary expecting stiff examination from the last Rebel nursery to win the Munster post-primary competition.

De La Salle (Waterford) 0-13 Nenagh CBS (Tipperary) 0-10: A fruitful period at the start of the second-half — and a desire to prove others wrong — helped Waterford’s De La Salle to overcome Nenagh CBS in Kilmallock yesterday to book their place in the semi-finals of the Dr Harty Cup.

Midleton CBS 0-25 Thurles CBS 2-13: Defending champions Midleton CBS were given a serious shock by Thurles CBS in round 2 of the Dean Ryan Cup at Fermoy before they eventually sealed their progress in extra-time.

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

Limerick minor manager Leo O’Connor has described the instant turnaround from colleges hurling to intercounty championship as “crazy”.

Unfamiliar terrain, yes. But talk of bonus territory has long since been banned in the Thurles CBS camp.

Dr O’Sullivan Cup

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.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-10 St Francis College, Rochestown 0-10

When Seán Powter pointed for St Francis College, Rochestown in the closing stages of Saturday’s Corn Uí Mhuirí final, it had all the hallmarks of being a match-winner.

The Rochestown footballers are excused from their final three classes on Wednesday afternoon.

Munster Post Primary Dr Harty Cup Final

Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final (all 1.30pm)

Finally one of the GAA’s core issues — teenage player burnout — is getting a proper airing. Is the organisation ready to address a problem that’s literally eating away its future? Writes Eoghan Cormican.

A team from the North Monastery in Cork contests the Harty Cup quarter-final against Thurles CBS.

A repeat of last year’s semi-final pairing is in store as Dr Harty Cup holders Ardscoil Rís were drawn with Hamilton High School in the quarter-final.

The Nenagh-Midleton clash was to determine the other qualifiers from Group 4, which Hamilton High School had already won.

A last-minute point from Cian Magner-Flynn earned West Limerick Colleges a draw against Thurles CBS in their Group 1 clash at Claughaun GAA Club yesterday.

With 19 victories, famed Cork hurling nursery North Monastery trail only St Flannan’s College on the Dr Harty Cup roll of honour.

Ardscoil Rís got their defence of the Dr Harty Cup off to an impressive start as they beat Blackwater CS of Lismore in their Group 1 clash at Cahir yesterday.

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St Francis College, Rochestown 1-13 Thurles CBS 0-11

St Francis College, Rochestown 5-18 Blackwater CS 1-13

Dual All-Ireland minor medallists are rare, making it an even smaller club those to have achieved that as well as winning a Dr Harty Cup.

FOR over 16 minutes last Wednesday evening, Eamon O’Shea’s hold over Tipperary hurling supporters seated in the impressive Derrynaflan theatre at the Horse and Jockey was absolute.

There are six games down for decision in today’s Dr Harty Cup.

He is a celebrated star who has stockpiled All-Ireland medals but Padraic Maher has another inter-county competitor vying for his position.

The dream became a reality for Nenagh CBS at Semple Stadium, Thurles on Saturday afternoon when they won the All-Ireland Colleges SAHC title for the first time.

They have lived in the shadow of their city rivals St Kieran’s for long enough.

It started out over a decade ago as a plan to expose youngsters in West Waterford to an elite standard of colleges hurling.

The double-jobbing with hurling teams over the past couple of months has created a frantic schedule for Donagh O’Donnell.

NENAGH CBS will bid to bridge a 15-year gap since their last appearance in the final of the Dr Harty Cup and thwart the ambitions of Ardscoil Rís when the teams renew acquaintances in today’s semi-final replay clash in Sean Treacy Park in Tipperary Town (2.30pm).

The fixtures have fallen kindly for Donagh O’Donnell this weekend.