There but for the grace of God go I — the inevitable thought that crossed Conor Phelan’s mind when he learned of Anthony Foley’s sudden death last weekend.

The ‘Rose of Mooncoin’ rang out loud and clear in Croke Park yesterday evening, the Kilkenny GAA ballad had not been heard on All-Ireland camogie final day for over two decades. 

Ken McGrath and Conor Phelan were part of the Waterford and Kilkenny panels that contested an All-Ireland semi-final in 2004. McGrath captained Waterford to that season’s Munster title. Then a student at Waterford Institute of Technology, Phelan now works there as GAA development officer. Both men have also suffered serious health issues. They chatted hurling and heart problems...

In the end, as with so many sailing regattas it was the weather that proved the final arbiter for Volvo Cork Week 2016. Thick mist outside Cork Harbour denied most of the racing classes their final day yesterday.

A full programme of races started the biennial Volvo Cork Week yesterday as strong winds gave way to moderate offshore breezes for the 100-boat fleet competing around the harbour.

Conor Phelan’s Jump Juice of the Royal Cork Yacht Club goes into action at Howth YC this afternoon as the eight event Irish Cruiser Racing Association National Championships gets underway.

Nearly 90 yachts are already confirmed to enter this year’s Volvo Cork Week — a noticeable increase on when the event was last held two years ago.

A penultimate day to be remembered for all the best and not so good reasons was the hallmark of the ICRA Nationals Sovereigns Cup sponsored by Cork County Council at Kinsale yesterday.

A man has died following a fire at a house in County Waterford early this morning.

Ballyhale Shamrocks secured their place in an eighth Kilkenny senior hurling decider in 10 years (against reigning champions Clara) with a routine 1-19 to 0-14 victory over St Martin’s at a sunblessed Nowlan Park yesterday.

A super goal from Keith Hogan, brother of county star Brian, fired holders Clara to victory over a young James Stephens team in the first round of the Kilkenny senior hurling championship yesterday.

"Substitutions are a consequence of how you read the match. You cannot predict them before the game because it is unpredictable" – Jose Mourinho

Light airs again played games with the racing schedule at Volvo Cork Week yesterday and though further tricky conditions are expected today, clear leaders have emerged across the fleet.

Light winds at times led to delays off Roche’s Point yesterday as day three of Volvo Cork Week saw most of the fleet only return to shore nearing 6pm, but with three races completed.

A marathon end to the ICRA National Championships kept the 115-storng fleet at sea for eight hours yesterday as slightly fresher winds arrived to permit a four-race programme.

An Irish pharmacist has stepped in to help a Syrian chemist who fled war-torn Homs for Ireland after his business was destroyed by a car bomb.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 4:

Oulart the Ballagh 0-20 Clara 2-11

Clara’s match-winner Lester Ryan said he had no choice but to go for goal four minutes from the end of normal time.

It was a bittersweet prize-giving for double-Olympian Peter O’Leary at the newly refurbished Kinsale Yacht Club late on Saturday evening.

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.

Laois football manager Justin McNulty will be without the services of Kevin Meaney, last year's captain, and full-forward Gary Walsh for the remainder of this year's Championship.

Limerick 0-08 Waterford 0-06

Promising Kilkenny hurler Luke Harney is waiting to discover whether he will be left with long-term damage from a serious eye injury.

Clara (Kilkenny) 0-19 Silvermines (Tipperary) 1-14 (aet)

Clara (Kilkenny) 3-20 Oylegate/Glenbrien (Wexford) 0-5

The future was his.

Clara (Kilkenny)1-12 St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh (Dublin) 0-8

With few changes in Thursday’s overnight standings, Cork Week closed at Crosshaven last night after a spectacular 100-boat race off Roche’s Point and briefly around the inner harbour.

With Cork Week well into it’s programme and approaching it’s finale tomorrow, a change in conditions today could upset the overall standings in several key classes, although some leaders appear uncatchable.

Racing at Cork warmed up with the improved weather yesterday as a full programme of competition was completed in all nine events under IRC and again under ECHO handicaps.

WHAT a difference a few hours can make to winter sailing.

LAST Sunday at Crosshaven more than 70 boats participated in the Autumn Series, Whitesail 1 and Whitesail 2 together with Classes 3 and 4 raced in the harbour.

IT was something of a phoney war in that both sides were keeping a little in reserve for the championship, but Ballyhale Shamrocks picked up their first title of the year when winning the senior hurling league final against James Stephens on Saturday.

Conor Phelan has been brought into the Waterford team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier clash with Limerick.

EMMETT BOLTON returns to the Kildare side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland qualifier against neighbours Meath in Páirc Tailteann in Navan.

UP to now, games between London and Waterford were played out well below the nation’s radar. Ruislip or Fraher Field, it didn’t matter. Here were two bottom-feeders fighting for scraps at the bottom of a tank packed with far bigger fish.

AFTER prolonged absences, Alan Quirke, Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Donnacha O’Connor, Kevin McMahon and Colm O’Neill return to the Cork team for Sunday’s final game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NFL against Mayo at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

THE chairman of the board of a kitchen and bathroom supply company has denied claims of carrying on the company’s business in a reckless manner and has claimed he too was a victim of a “fraud” allegedly perpetrated on the company by its chief executive and chief operating officer.

Kilkenny 1-16 Limerick 0-13