Cork had the upper hand in windy Walsh Park, winning by eight points against an off-colour Waterford side.

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Kerry’s dreadful early home league record continued in Tralee this evening when they were reeled in by a more purposeful Mayo effort.

Palatine (Carlow) 0-8 St Vincent’s (Dublin) 0-16: Palatine co-manager Mick Lillis claimed Diarmuid Connolly is an easy target after the St Vincent’s captain was black-carded in the first half of this Leinster club SFC quarter-final in Carlow yesterday.

DIT 4-14 Kilkenny 0-16: Conor McDonald returned to haunt Kilkenny when he led the Dublin Institute of Technology to a big win in the Walsh Cup last night.

Galway 0-20, Kilkenny 0-18: Sometimes a pedestrian game produces an exciting finish, but sometimes it produces a conclusion to suit the preamble.

Cork collected the McGrath Cup yesterday with a four-point win over Kerry in Mallow, a determined second-half display and a good John Hayes goal the key to their first silverware of 2014.

Ballyhale Shamrocks 1-17 O’Loughlin Gaels 2-10

Fielding a team with a liberal sprinkling of inter-county under 21, junior and senior players, Carbery served notice that they will have a big say in the battle for this year’s title after they had a comfortable victory over CIT in the third round of the Cork SFC at Cloughduv last night.

CLINICAL strikers Dean Rock and Michael McCarthy led Dublin to a five-point victory over Wicklow in a challenge match at Greystones last night.

THIS club hurling championship must be one of the strangest competitions around.

A CONTROVERSIAL 48th minute goal by Moycullen corner-forward Christopher Hurney turned the Connacht intermediate hurling final in the Galway champions’ favour in Athleague yesterday.

BALLYHALE Shamrocks qualified for the Kilkenny SHC final yesterday with a hugely impressive win over last year’s champions O’Loughlin Gaels.

Nemo Rangers 0-12 Ballincollig 1-7

KILKENNY champions, O’Loughlin-Gaels saved themselves from the grave with only seconds remaining in normal time and then made Ballyboden St Enda’s (Dublin) pay the ultimate price when they scored a daring win in this thrilling Leinster Club SFC semi-final in Nowlan Park yesterday.

Dublin 0-14 Galway 1-14

ON THE basis of what was the more impressive of the two semi-final victories, Ballyhale Shamrocks will be fancied to follow the lead of the Kilkenny hurlers and make it four-in-a-row in Sunday week’s domestic championship decider.

DESPITE a comprehensive nine points triumph over Laois last weekend, the Cork senior football selectors have made a number of changes for Sunday’s NFL Division 2 clash with Wexford at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

CORK captain Graham Canty has been passed fit to play for Cork and resumes his centre-back position for Sunday’s NFL showdown with Fermanagh at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

HARD to believe this was the same Mayo who almost kicked away the All-Ireland MFC semi-final a week ago.

THE Cork team to play Kerry in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC replay in Croke Park shows one change in personnel and several positional switches from the team which earned that dramatic draw last Sunday.

THE BONFIRES were ablaze in Puckane last night as Kildangan celebrated its first North Tipperary senior hurling title since 1943, its third in all, a victory made all the sweeter in that it was achieved in the most unlikely of circumstances over neighbours and fierce rivals, Burgess.

KERRY minor boss John Kennedy is adamant his side have learned from their mistakes ahead of this evening’s Munster MFC final replay against Tipperary.

THE Cork senior hurling selectors have wielded the axe, making five changes from the side that lost to Tipperary in the Munster championship semi-final for Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier against Dublin at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (5pm).

WICKLOW easily beat Roscommon in a one-sided Christy Ring Cup match at Athleague on Saturday.

Galway 0-10 Kilkenny 1-16

Galway 3-12 Laois 0-5