Tie hole drama was the order of the day when the finals of three Munster inter-club competitions were decided over the weekend.

TIPPERARY 1-15 CORK 3-8: Another giant step forward in the development of Tipperary football as Tommy Toomey’s young charges foiled Cork’s five-in-a-row bid to secure the county’s second Munster U21 title.

Cork 1-12 Kerry 1-09: Last September’s All-Ireland minor football final win, from which seven players featured yesterday evening, restored power to the Kingdom circuit lines and roused a large travelling contingent onto the N40 in expectation of a first Munster U21 championship win since 2012.

Cork midfielder Ian Maguire has overcome a back injury and is selected for tomorrow’s Munster U21 football quarter-final against Limerick.

Cork 0-16 Tipperary 1-11

Kildare manager Jason Ryan retains faith in the black-card rule, but insists consistency of its application remains the most important factor.

Sean Dineen is the surprise inclusion in the Cork senior football squad for the championship.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has dismissed suggestions last Sunday’s defeat to Mayo was another example of a Kerry second-half fadeout.

Cork will not mount any further opposition to the decision to run the Féile na nGael without top-tier competitions in both 2014 and ’15.

SIGERSON CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

An excellent second-half performance from Cork gave them a second Allianz Football League Division 1 win as Kildare were beaten at Páirc Uí Rinn today.

Cork IT 2-12 IT Carlow 0-08

Ruairí Deane, Alan Cronin and Donal Óg Hodnett are some of the notable newcomers to the Cork football squad for the Allianz Football League Division 1 campaign, though Ray Carey is not included.

Kerry 2-12 Cork IT 0-13

2010 All-Ireland SFC winning midfielder Alan O'Connor has decided to end his involvement with the Cork senior footballers.

Alan O’Connor, Ray Carey and John Hayes have made themselves available to the Cork footballers for the 2014 season.

Cork 0-13 Kildare 1-07

Cork 1-18 Waterford 0-9

Since 2005, any year ending in an odd number has seen Cork claim the Munster and All-Ireland junior football titles.

Clare 0-9 Cork 0-18

Cork IT 0-18 UCC 0-11

Cork 5-17 Limerick 2-08

UCC 0-15 CIT 0-15 (aet)

Galway 1-14 Cork 1-11

Galway 1-14 Cork 1-11

Cavan 1-11 Cork 0-15

Cork 0-15 Cavan 1-11

CADBURYS U21FC ALL-IRELAND SEMI-FINAL

You’d have to wonder where the Tom Clancys of this world find their energy.

The Cork U21 footballers have named an unchanged side from the team that beat Kerry a fortnight ago in the Munster quarter-final for tomorrow night’s last-four clash with Limerick in the Gaelic grounds (7.30pm).

Kilmurry 1-15 Iveleary 1-11

Cork minor Cathal Vaughan scored 1-7 as Iveleary claimed the Cork County U21BFC title in seeing off Kildorrery at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

Cork minor manager Ephie Fitzgerald has made one change for tomorrow’s Electric Ireland Munster MFC semi-final against Tipperary in Páirc Uí Chaoimh from the team that defeated Limerick in the first round.

A more determined Ennistymon CBS side deservedly denied holders Pobalscoil Inbhear Sceine, Kenmare a hat-trick of Munster Colleges Corn Na Carraige (U16½ FC) titles in miserable conditions at Rathkeale yesterday.

Conor Horgan was the hat-trick hero as Cork moved effortlessly into the Munster MFC semi-finals with this comprehensive first round success over Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night.

They have sampled the senior management game in recent years but these days Ephie Fitzgerald and Mickey Ned O’Sullivan are focusing on the underage ranks.

Stevie McDonnell last night announced his retirement from inter-county football.

They have lived in the shadows of other Kerry football schools in previous seasons, but yesterday was a golden afternoon for Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne as they claimed their first Corn Uí Mhuirí title.

FOR the third time in seven years, De La Salle (Macroom) will participate in the marquee day in Munster Colleges football after staving off Coláiste Chríost Rí in an absorbing Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final in Cloughduv on Saturday.

GREATER scoring power helped Macroom’s De La Salle past St Fachtna’s De La Salle of Skibbereen and into the semi-final of the Corn Uí Mhuirí at Ballineen yesterday.

DE LA SALLE (Macroom) progressed to the knock-out stages of the Corn Uí Mhuirí after victory over champions Coláiste Chríost Rí in an excellent Group D clash in Cloughduv yesterday.

THE splendour of their performances in Leinster led many to attach All-Ireland-winning credentials to this Dublin minor football team and in Portlaoise yesterday they offered more persuasive evidence they can this year land the county’s first national crown at this level since 1984.

GALWAY boss Tommy Joyce has made three changes to his starting fifteen for this afternoon’s All-Ireland MFC quarter-final against Cavan in Pearse Park at 3pm.

TIPPERARY brought 16 years of Munster minor football heartache to an end in glorious fashion at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.