St Francis College, Rochestown 2-13 Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig 2-11: Rochestown’s St Francis College showed their resilience to dig out victory in an entertaining Corn Uí Mhuirí Group A tie at Carrigaline yesterday.

The double dreams of Loreto College, Kilkenny were dashed by a second half rally from St Brigid’s of Loughrea, who left MacDonagh Park in Nenagh yesterday as the O’Neills All-Ireland post primary senior A camogie champions.

Coláiste Choilm Ballincollig 52 Patrician College Newbridge 51: Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig won the U19A All-Ireland Schools League in dramatic fashion, beating Patrician College Newbridge with the last score of the game at the National Arena.

Tralee’s Mercy Mounthawk staged a remarkable comeback to overcome Coláiste Choilm of Ballincollig by 2-16 to 3-10 in their Corn Uí Mhuirí Group D clash in Millstreet.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne will begin the quest to make Corn Uí Mhuirí history today, but their opponents will be writing a new chapter of their own.

Coláiste Choilm (Cork) 0 St Joseph’s (Galway) 0

GC na Mara, Arklow 1 Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig 3

As the Irish singer gets ready for the Grammys, Eoin Edwards hears the story of the €1,500 promo film that helped bring him to an audience of millions.

Three Cork teenagers have bagged the top prize at this year’s Google Science Fair for their project, Natural Bacteria Combating World Hunger.

Coláiste Choilm, Ballincollig 1-11 Scoil Aodháin 1-10

Simcox Cup final

COLÁISTE na Sceilge and St Brendan’s face off in a mouth watering Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges SAFC semi-final) in Milltown tomorrow (2.30pm).

THE call came as a jolt to his senses. Midweek in late February 2008 and Patrick Kelly was in a pub in Limerick, watching a Champions League game with a few college friends.

A SCHOOL honoured its greatest sporting hero yesterday almost two years after he was killed in a car crash.

COLÁISTE Choilm, Ballincollig, Co Cork and St Aloysius School, Cork, were victorious in close contests in the TCH All-Ireland Schools quiz held at Jury’s Hotel, Cork last night.

THE long awaited clash of David McCarthy (St. Augustine’s, Dungarvan) and John Coghlan (Castleknock) in the senior boys’ 1,500m failed to live up to expectations at the KitKat Irish Schools track and field championships at Tullamore on Saturday.

Tralee CBS 2-13 Coláiste Choilm 0-6

Tralee CBS 4-19 ISK 0-6

CARLOW enjoyed a very productive evening at the Thomas Crosbie Holdings Ltd All-Ireland Schools Quiz held in the Montrose Hotel, Dublin, last night when their representatives, St Mary’s College, Knockbeg, and Vocational School, Borris, had victories over Dublin opposition.

Coláiste Chríost Rí 5-11Coláiste Choilm 1-4

St Brendan’s 3-12 Colaiste Choilm 2-9

BRENDAN O’NEILL (St. Michael’s, Dublin), Mairead Murphy (Mercy, Waterford) and Laura Reynolds (Marian, Mohill) all set new records at the KitKat Tailteann Irish Schools interpros at Tullamore on Saturday when a number of athletes bound for the European Youth Olympic Festival got the perfect send-off.

ATHLETES from all 32 counties will converge on the Tullamore Harriers Track for the Kit Kat Irish Schools championships today.

RACHEL AKERS (Scariff CC), who won both the senior girls discus and hammer at the Kit Kat Irish schools championships in Tullamore last year, begins to defend her titles at CIT in Bishopstown tomorrow at the Kit Kat Munster schools championships, starting at 9.30am.

FOR the second year in a row, St. Brendan’s College, Killarney are on the brink of failing to qualify for the knock-out stages of the Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí.

IN their first year playing Dr Harty Cup hurling, Youghal CBS are within sight of a place in the knock out stages.

NEXT year's Irish Examiner Dr Harty Cup will be played on a round robin basis following a decision made at the recent Munster Colleges AGM.