It has been a long process for Cork minor hurling manager Pat Kenneally to finalise his championship squad and finally they open their campaign with a clash against Limerick at Páirc Uí Chaoimh tonight (7pm), with Kenneally outlining the selection system.

A FITTING end to the Munster championship hurling season in sunny Mallow yesterday, a day stolen from late summer and a game to match.

THROUGH the decades there have been outstanding hurlers and outstanding teams in Charleville but success and titles remained elusive for many years.

THEY’RE not done yet – a little matter of a Munster club JHC final on December 11 still to come – but already it has been a season to remember for Charleville.

Tipperary 2-16 Cork 1-09

IT is make or break time for the minor hurlers of Cork and Tipperary in tomorrow’s Munster championship semi-final playoff in Thurles (3.30pm).

WATERFORD corner-back Eoin Murphy was released from hospital yesterday after fracturing his skull in a club match last Friday night.

CORK’S aspirations of winning this year’s Munster minor hurling championship remain intact, but Saturday night’s victory over Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh was not without anxiety.

THE Cork minor hurling selectors have made a number of changes ahead of tonight’s Munster Minor Hurling Championship semi-final play-off against Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 6.30pm).

DRAMA at the end of this cracking Harty Cup third round group game in Ballybrown yesterday, fortunes swaying first one way and then the other, a precious quarter-final berth at stake.