Blackrock 1-21 Duhallow 0-8: Blackrock collected their third Cork U21AHC title in four years – their fifth overall — at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Cork 2-20 Limerick 1-13: A blistering 12-minute spell either side of half-time – in which the home outfit hit 1-6 without reply – propelled Cork past the reigning Munster champions to avenge last year’s semi-final defeat.

St Kieran’s College 2-11 St Francis College, Rochestown 0-10

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-10 St Francis College, Rochestown 0-10

Pobal Scoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-10 St Francis College Rochestown 1-10

St Francis College, Rochestown 1-12 Thurles CBS 2-12:

St Francis College, Rochestown 4-11Ard Scoil Rís 1-17: Dr Harty Cup semi-final: Not since Midleton CBS’s win of 2006 has a Cork school inscribed its name on the Dr Harty Cup, but the possibility of that run ending remains a live possibility after this Charleville cracker.

St Francis Rochestown 1-9 Coláiste na Sceilge 2-4

St Francis College Rochestown 3-9 Nenagh CBS 2-8: Tour-de-force performances from Ciarán Cormack and Shane Kingston returned St Francis College, Rochestown to the semi-final juncture of the Harty Cup for a second successive year.

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-14 Midleton CBS 1-08

Two late goals earned St Francis College, Rochestown, a draw with St Fachtna’s De La Salle of Skibbereen in their Group C clash at Enniskeane, 2-10 to 3-7.

St Francis College, Rochestown 2-14 Charleville CBS 0-13

They held hands while enjoying romantic walks around the secluded grounds of a luxury castle and a country house. They even bought two large popcorns on two trips to the cinema.

St Francis College, Rochestown (Cork)2-8Rice College, Westport (Mayo)1-5

St Francis College, Rochestown 1-13 Thurles CBS 0-11

Blackrock 3-12 Nemo Rangers 4-08

Businessman Alan Hynes has done “his absolute best in very tragic circumstances” in addressing the difficulties facing Tuskar Asset Management plc and should not be disqualified from involvement with companies, his lawyer told the High Court yesterday.

Blackrock 4-17 Blarney 1-09

The British government insulted MPs trying to scrutinise a key Omagh bomb report when it denied full access, an influential House of Commons committee said today.

Two policemen refused to give evidence to a high-level probe into Omagh bomb intelligence in the North, it was revealed today.

Some unionist criticisms of the proposed Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland are factually incorrect, the Human Rights Commission claimed today.

The head of the Bloody Sunday Inquiry has told a Westminster Committee he cannot meet it to explain the delay in his 10-year investigation, it emerged today.

BRITISH Attorney General Peter Goldsmith yesterday denied there was any political interference in the decision by prosecutors in Northern Ireland to drop charges against three men accused of spying at Stormont.