Cormac Walsh is well fitted to the mould of the modern-day wing-forward. He covers the ground, takes his scores and gets through an amount of work that often goes unseen. The Midleton man’s positivity and openness is as impressive as his on-field exploits and he has very much enjoyed his side’s run to Sunday’s Cork SHC final.

Midleton 2-16 Bishopstown 0-12: There was only going to be one winner from this first-round Cork SHC clash in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday and yet it wasn’t so much a case of 2013 champions Midleton being comfortably in control all through, more an issue of how closer Bishopstown might have been had they not accumulated 17 wides.

Barrow Rangers (Kilkenny) 2-14 Shanballymore (Cork) 1-15: Kilkenny’s Barrow Rangers advanced to the All-Ireland JBHC final after defeatomg Cork champions Shanballymore in Killeedy yesterday.

Glen Rovers 0-18 Midleton 1-12: The last time Glen Rovers reached consecutive Cork SHC finals was at the end of the 1980s, when a loss in ’88 to St Finbarr’s was followed in ’89 with victory over Sarsfields.

Glen Rovers have reached a second consecutive Cork SHC final but they will have to wait another week to find their opponents in the October 11th decider, with Erin’s Own and Sarsfields drawing in the second semi.

A man sexually assaulted as a child by someone he regarded as a father figure has been awarded €200,000 aggravated damages against his abuser in a key High Court ruling.

With a first county senior hurling title since 1991 safely under their belt, the next focus for Midleton has to be the Munster title — so says former great John Fenton. The only Cork club to have won the provincial crown since his own side did it in 1987 has been Newtownshandrum.

Conor Lehane, that was the name on everyone’s lips after this Cork SHC final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Usually in a game as tight as this, there is one significant moment that decides victory.

Midleton 2-19 Erin’s Own 1-08

Energy Co-operatives Ireland (ECI) will hold a public meeting in the Mullingar Park Hotel next Wednesday to establish a co-op for those participating in schemes to export renewable energy to the UK.

Bishopstown 1-11 Midleton 0-11

Quality strikes from two deadly finishers made all the difference in this Cork SHC fourth round clash at Ballynoe on Saturday as Midleton booked their place in the quarter-finals with a hard earned victory over battling Avondhu.

These three wind turbines were erected 10 years ago by the then Inis Meáin co-op as a means of developing sustainable energy on the Aran island.

AN 11-point winning margin, embellished by a late 1-2 blast, was representative of the superiority De La Salle exerted over Midleton CBS in yesterday’s Dr Harty Cup quarter-final in Cappoquin.

THEIR winning performance was almost dwarfed by the massive achievement in ending a 74 year wait for a place in the Cork SHC final, but it took an outstanding team display from Carrigtwohill, highlighted by inspirational play from Niall McCarthy and superb defending, to thwart Midleton in Páirc Uí Chaoimhy esterday.

Midleton 1-17 Ballymartle 0-18

A BIGGER and more physically imposing Midleton side were simply too strong for Millstreet in a pulsating U21 AFC quarter-final at Castletownroche last night.

WATERFORD corner-back Eoin Murphy was released from hospital yesterday after fracturing his skull in a club match last Friday night.

ON an evening when news of the shock retirement of Andrew O’Shaughnessy made its way around the well-populated stand in the Gaelic Grounds at this Munster minor hurling quarter-final, could it be that Limerick hurling has already found a suitable replacement – perhaps even two or three?

THE holding company of the Joe Walsh tour and travel group saw pre-tax profits fall slightly in 2002 after a dip in turnover.