Midleton 1-17, Douglas 0-11

The returning Brian Murphy is one of three changes to the Cork side for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final with Waterford in Thurles.

Waterford hurling manager Derek McGrath is concerned his younger players will struggle to sustain their league form into the summer.

Cork hurling captain Anthony Nash has made little of the team’s full-back problem by claiming “there is no such thing as a full-back anymore”.

Midleton 0-20 Killeagh 2-8: The outcome was the one most predicted, but not with the ease expected from Midleton in this Cork senior hurling championship first-round game in Castlemartyr yesterday.

When Dublin won the league title in 2011, the final ended in pretty much the same manner as it did for Waterford yesterday; a big score, the game in the bag down the home straight, the option of emptying the bench was on the table. 

When we played Cork in the 1998 league semi-final, what I remember most is that we wore white togs and yellow socks. We had never worn white togs before in our lives, not even as minors. I don’t know where the yellow socks came out of it, they were dire. We were worse. We were cat.

Aidan Ryan is a surprise inclusion as Cork make three changes for Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 final against Waterford in Semple Stadium (3.30pm).

GAA officials have confirmed to the Irish Examiner that a rule change passed at this year’s Congress will have to be revisited as a result of Tipperary forward Seamus Callanan’s late clearance to play in Sunday’s NHL semi-final against Waterford.

The school commute from Charleville to Banogue National School took in a chilling new sight on a balmy autumn morning.

There’s a brutal sense of honesty about this Tipperary management team that can’t but endear itself to any keen hurling follower.

Midleton 3-18 Killeagh 1-13

Midleton 2-15 Sarsfields 2-13

Usually in a game as tight as this, there is one significant moment that decides victory.

Aidan Ryan is one of those lads who lives and breathes club hurling. Cliched, perhaps, but his is no ordinary tale of devout service.

Midleton 2-21 Na Piarsaigh 1-06

Midleton 1-24 Bride Rovers 1-11

Talking to the men directly involved, there are a couple of common themes when it comes to the factors that have led to a renaissance at underage hurling in the counties of Clare and Limerick — and a reasonable amount of divergence.

John Keane has embraced new faces but will meet some old ones in the Munster Club SHC final on Sunday.

It just goes on and on and on, remorseless, bordering on monotonous, to the point we’re almost numb to the scale of their achievement.

In the public memory, he’ll always be a moment.

CHAMPIONS Kerry lead the way on this year’s Christy Ring Cup Champion 15 with four players rewarded for their performances on the side that claimed honours in last June’s final against Wicklow in Croke Park.

IT MIGHT not have been the prize they targeted at the beginning of the season, but winning the Cork County Red FM senior hurling league (Denis Conroy Cup) at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday gives Sarsfields plenty of optimism for next year.

RAYNERS LANE in Harrow might not sound like a GAA hotbed but the giveaway is the pub, or rather its name.

THEIR winning performance was almost dwarfed by the massive achievement in ending a 74 year wait for a place in the Cork SHC final, but it took an outstanding team display from Carrigtwohill, highlighted by inspirational play from Niall McCarthy and superb defending, to thwart Midleton in Páirc Uí Chaoimhy esterday.

Midleton 1-17 Ballymartle 0-18

THE scoreline at the end flattered Midleton at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, yet, there was never any real doubt that they would be the team to face Ballymartle in next Sunday’s Cork SHC quarter-final.

IT was 9.30pm when the last pony jumped at 95th Dungarvan Show — one of their most successful ever, according to organisers.

A LATE point by Conor Lehane earned Midleton a deserved draw, 0-19 to 2-13, with Glen Rovers in a keenly contested Evening Echo Cork SHC quarter-final at Páirc Ui Chaoimh yesterday.

MIDLETON sprung a huge surprise in the Evening Echo Cork SHC first round at Carrigtwohill on Saturday when they shunted Sarsfields towards the backdoor route with an excellent success.

LIKE the other 82,105 people that filled Croke Park on September 6 last year, Kieran Murphy was left spellbound by the thrilling action that unfolded on the pitch.

CORK remain the only unbeaten side in Division One of the NHL after this trip to the capital but they should probably send a ‘Thank You’ card Dublin’s way after yesterday afternoon’s fifth round clash.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK’s second-half scoring spree put Cork out of the Waterford Crystal Hurling Cup at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday, the students’ 1-8 without replay after the break giving them a well-earned victory in front of 1,652 spectators.

BALLINHASSIG issued a powerful statement of intent at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday when sweeping Midleton aside in the Evening Echo Cork SHC second round.

Galway 4-16 Cork 1-11

DUBLIN 4-14 CORK 1-14

STAND-IN Cork manager Ger Fitzgerald declared himself “very pleased” with the 2009 Cork hurling panel’s display in last night’s challenge match defeat to Waterford in Mallow.

I AM disgusted at the discriminatory manner in which Limerick City Council is treating the GAA in Limerick city.

NIALL MORAN scored nine points but it was Seanie O’Connor’s goal just before half time that eventually proved decisive and put Ahane back into the Limerick Live 95FM county SHC final for the first time in four years.

DOWN exhibitor, Desmond Gibson, Dromara, had a successful outing to the Iverk Show in Piltown, Co Kilkenny, where he won the Tullamore Dew brood mare and foal All Ireland championship.

THE discovery yesterday of a body partly buried in open ground in Limerick is almost certainly the 10th tit-for-tat murder in the continuing feud between two rival drugs gangs.

The President of the GAA, Mr Nickey Brennan has extended his deepest sympathies and those of the Association to the family of former Tipperary All-Ireland hurling medal winner Pat Stakelum.

Our Lady’s, Templemore 3-20 Glanmire CS 1-9