St Flannan’s College, Ennis 1-9 Pobalscoil Sliabh Luachra, Rathmore 1-8: St Flannan’s stunned a fancied Pobalscoil Sliabh Luachra, Rathmore at Rathkeale yesterday in an absorbing Corn Uí Mhuiri quarter-final.

CBC (Cork) 2-7 St Flannan’s College (Ennis) 0-11: A first Dr Harty Cup campaign in almost a century for Cork’s Christian Brothers College will continue into the new year after they booked a quarter-final spot with a battling win over St Flannan’s at Kilmallock yesterday.

Watergrasshill 1-16 Cloyne 2-11: “We won with pure heart and determination,” was the verdict of Watergrasshill manager John O’Regan after his side battled back from eight points down to snatch victory at the death over a fancied Cloyne in the Cork Premier IHC on Saturday.

Carlow 3-08 Louth 1-12: Carlow’s footballers provided new boss Turlough O’Brien with a first win thanks to this merited two-points victory over Louth in yesterday’s O’Byrne Cup tie at Dr Cullen Park.

Thurles CBS 5-26 St Flannan’s College, Ennis 0-06

Cork IFC

Dublin 2-6 Louth 0-8

Westmeath 0-11 Dublin 0-12

Myshall 3-9 Scariff/Ogonnelloe 0-8

Old Leighlin 0-11 Éire Óg 1-06

Cloyne 3-15 Carrigaline 3-11

Anna Geary was on a high but she was tired. A 14-month campaign that had seen Milford finally win a first senior county championship after many near-misses concluded with an All-Ireland at Croke Park.

Wicklow 1-11 Dublin 0-10

A total of 119 days separated Fermoy’s first game in this year’s Cork County IFC and their second, but they showed few ill-effects of the lay-off as they beat Cloyne by 11 points at Lisgoold on Saturday evening.

A strong showing immediately before and after half-time was key for Aghabullogue as they earned a place in the last 16 of the Cork County IFC at the expense of Cloyne at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Sarsfields illustrated why they are regarded as one of the front-runners for this year’s Cork SHC after carving out a deserved, but hard-fought victory over Cloyne in their opening bout on Saturday evening.

St Paul’s Bessbrook easily claimed the All-Ireland Colleges SBFC title on Saturday at Breffni Park.

Carlow were clearly the better team, but were helped run up a decent score by error-prone Kilkenny in Freshford.

Brian Murphy and JJ Smith fired second-half goals as Carlow made hard work of a poor London side at Ruislip.

For the third time in seven years DCU climbed to the Sigerson Cup winner’s podium on Saturday afternoon at Pearse Stadium.

DCU 2-17 NUI Maynooth 0-7

NUI Maynooth held off a late challenge from 14-man UCD to forge a deserved victory in last night’sfloodlit Sigerson Cup quarter-final.

NUI, Maynooth travelled north to Belfast and came away with a deserved win with a last minute point in this Sigerson Cup clash at the Dub.

DECEMBER football doesn’t enjoy the most enviable of reputations but the Dublin and Laois champions made light of the heavy and Baltic conditions yesterday to deliver one of the best games seen in the last 12 months.

SIGERSON Cup holders UCC finished with a flurry of points to turn a two-point deficit into a three-point victory in this high-quality game at Dr Cullen Park, Carlow, yesterday.

A SIX point victory hid a multitude of St Brigid’s sins as the Dublin champions turned in a storming finale to book their Leinster Club SFC semi-final spot at Parnell Park, Dublin, yesterday.

CLASS easily overcame courage in Navan where the quality of Dublin champions St Brigid’s shone through to secure a Leinster club SFC quarter-final spot.

IT was billed as the crowning moment of a sensational season for the Brogan brothers but, in the end, a little known substitute for St Brigid’s stole the show.

ST BRIGID’S manager Mark Byrne conceded he thought his team were dead and buried at half-time of this Dublin SFC semi-final on Saturday.

ANTRIM footballers showed a lot of character and composure in Saturday’s closing stages to squeeze Carlow out of the race.

Carlow 0-14 Louth 0-13

CARLOW manager Luke Dempsey has handed out five championship debuts for next Sunday’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Louth.

AN ATTACKING masterclass by Tyrone full-forward Matthew Donnelly underpinned UUJ’s triumph over NUI Maynooth in yesterday’s first Sigerson Cup semi-final in Belfield.

FORMER Galway All-Ireland winner John Divilly’s run of success with NUI Maynooth continued at Belfield yesterday afternoon as he guided the Kildare college to their second successive Sigerson Cup semi-final.

BARRY OWENS’ Fermanagh side made a winning start to their campaign at Dr Cullen Park in comfortable fashion. The two-time All Star was immense in shutting down Thomas Walsh and Brendan Murphy, who both had fruitless stints at full-forward.

DUBLIN manager Pat Gilroy has revealed he will embark on staging a second successive season of early morning winter training sessions, starting at 6.30am tomorrow.

SEVEN of the Dublin team defeated in last August’s All-Ireland semi-final against Cork will be in action for tomorrow’s annual Dub Stars clash at St Brigid’s GAA club in Castleknock at 3.15pm.

A STORMING second-half, powered by the magnificence of Mark Vaughan and Brian Kavanagh, sealed Kilmacud Crokes’ seventh Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park yesterday.

JOHN MINNOCK is one of the few that truly knows how Michael Murphy feels right now.

Dublin 1-10 Donegal 1-8

JIM GAVIN has backed several of his Dublin U21 players to be future stars after qualifying for a first final at the grade since 2003.

DUBLIN boss Jim Gavin has made three changes for tomorrow night’s Cadbury All-Ireland U21FC semi-final against Roscommon in Kingspan Breffni Park.

CORK boss Conor Counihan is likely to be able to call upon the services of dual star Eoin Cadogan for their NFL Division One clash against Dublin in Páirc Uí Rinn next Saturday night.