Fethard (Tipperary) 0-5 Kenmare Shamrocks (Kerry) 4-25: Kenmare boss John Morgan O’Sullivan said his side “know how to win Munster titles” after they hammered a young Fethard side in this Munster IFC tie in Clonmel yesterday.

Passage 1-13 Dungarvan 1-12: Passage manager Peter Queally let his emotions run wild at the full-time whistle after his 14 warriors battled their way to an unlikely semi-final victory.

Stephen O’Keeffe saved a last minute penalty from Shane Ryan to salvage a draw for holders Ballygunner against 14-man De La Salle at Walsh Park on Saturday evening.

Stradbally 0-8 Ballinacourty 0-6 

Nobody saw this coming, holders Kerry totally overwhelming Cork in the second half at Páirc Uí Rinn last evening to win back-to-back Munster junior football titles for the first time since 2002-’03, and record the Kingdom’s first championship win at the venue since their minor success seven years ago.

Munster JFC semi final

Clare 2-17 Limerick 3-07

The last words of a man being beaten to death were a plea to his attacker to stop hitting him, a court has heard.

The Garda watchdog has criticised members of the force for being “slow” and “less than optimal” in co-operating with an investigation which ultimately led to two gardaí being convicted for assault and another for attempting to pervert the course of justice.

An Rinn and Brickey Rangers both claimed wins in Group 2 of the Waterford SFC to boost their prospects of qualifying for the quarter-finals.

Stradbally 1-8 Nire 0-10

A GARDA charged with assaulting a Polish man while in custody was heard by a colleague telling him, “Welcome to Ireland, you’re not in Poland now”, Waterford District Court was told yesterday.

A THIRD garda was yesterday found guilty of an offence arising out of an assault on a man who resisted arrest after being caught urinating on the street last year.

A Waterford Garda has today been found not guilty of assault causing harm, but guilty of assault on a civilian in the city last year.

TWO gardaí will be sentenced in November after they were found guilty last night by a jury of offences arising out of an assault on a man on the street in January 2010.

A GARDA has been found guilty of assaulting a man who resisted arrest while another garda has been found guilty of intending to pervert the course of the justice by diverting a CCTV camera while the assault was taking place.

Two Gardaí have been convicted at Waterford Circuit Court in connection with an assault in the city last year.

The jury in the trial of four gardaí charged in connection with an assault in Waterford has begun its deliberations.

A SENIOR counsel representing a garda on trial for allegedly assaulting a man who resisted arrest has said if her client is convicted, the gardaí will “have to rethink how they deal with drunk, aggressive people” from now on.

GARDAÍ are not entitled to “hand out punishment to people there and then as they see fit”, the jury in an assault trial has been told.

ONE of the gardaí on trial for allegedly assaulting a man on the street in Waterford took to the witness box yesterday to deny he used “unnecessary force” when restraining the alleged victim.

THE trial of four gardaí accused of offences arising out of an alleged assault on a man last year had to be adjourned when a barrister involved in the case could not be present.

A DOCTOR who examined a man alleged to have been assaulted by gardaí found abrasions on his forehead and nasal area and a bruise on his left bicep, a court heard yesterday.

DAVY FITZGERALD will serve his reduced four-week suspension — despite vehemently denying he verbally abused referee James Owens in Waterford’s Allianz Division 1 game against Tipperary earlier this month.

WATERFORD manager Davy Fitzgerald will strongly contest a proposed 12-week suspension handed down to him following last Saturday’s Allianz Division 1 game against Tipperary.