St Colman’s College finished top of Group A in the Dr Harty Cup at Kilmallock yesterday completing three wins out of three and qualification for the quarter-final stage. However, it brought an end to the reign of champions Ardscoil Rís, with Nenagh CBS taking second place.

Nenagh CBS bounced back from an opening round loss to hand defending champions Ardscoil Ris a significant defeat in this group A Dr Harty Cup tie in Newport.

Back in August, Podge Collins found himself marking Tony Kelly for a brief period when Cratloe played Ballyea in the Clare championship.

Cratloe 1-14 Kilmaley 0-16

David Reidy is also named to start having had his controversial red card from the Limerick game rescinded.

Clare’s Jason McCarthy expects tonight’s Banner crowd “will be going mad” for the county’s U21 clash with All-Ireland champions Limerick in Cusack Park.

Kerry unleashed their superior firepower in the opening half of this Electric Ireland Munster MFC quarter-final against a Clare side caught in the headlights in near perfect conditions at the Austin Stack Park last night.

Ardscoil Rís 4-16 Charleville CBS 1-7: Ardscoil Rís produced another impressive display in the Dr Harty Cup at Kilmallock yesterday, beating Charleville CBS by 18-points. The champions, who defeated Hamilton High in the first round by a big margin, scored 4-14 from play, are now in the last eight.

Clare SHC quarter-finals. Champions Cratloe are out of the Clare SHC, defeated yesterday at Cusack Park by Sixmilebridge, 1-20 to 1-19.

Dictaphones switched off, Cian Lynch stands up from the huddle of print journalists he’s spent the past nine minutes entertaining.

Clare 0-23

Selection headaches aplenty for the Clare management ahead of their Munster semi-final date with Cork on June 14, and you certainly won’t hear coach Ephie Fitzgerald complaining.

He didn’t enjoy watching the last half hour of last Sunday’s epic Munster club final.

Kilmmallock 1-32 Cratloe 3-18

Kilmallock 1-32 Cratloe 3-18 (AET)

AIB MUNSTER CLUB SFC SEMI-FINALS:

Extra-time was the order of the day, before Austin Stacks and The Nire advanced to the AIB Munster Club Senior Football Final in two weeks, after semi-final wins this afternoon.

Cratloe (Clare) 1-18 Thurles Sarsfields (Tipperary) 0-14

Limerick kingpins Kilmallock and Cratloe of Clare will contest the AIB Munster senior club hurling championship final on November 23.

Munster secretary Simon Moroney admits staging All-Ireland club finals in December will only be workable if the schedules of other competitions such as the inter-county championships are put back in the year.

Limerick footballer John Galvin says it is remarkable that only the second senior club game he has started should yield him a county championship medal after guiding his adopted club Cratloe to glory in Clare on Sunday.

Cratloe 2-12 Éire Óg 0-11

It was the summer of 2005, when Cratloe’s footballers first announced themselves on the local scene.

Clare SHC

Clare SFC round-up : Holders Cratloe got off to a winning start in the opening round of the Clare SFC at the weekend, defeating Éire Óg 2-12 to 1-12 at Cusack Park, Ennis on Saturday evening.

Clare 5-19 Tipperary 1-25

Munster U21 HC semi-final

He’s the father of Podge Collins, one of the brightest young players in the GAA, but Colm Collins is his own man too. He’s the manager of the county’s senior footballers who are aiming to shake their tag as bridesmaids in Munster, starting tonight

Colm Collins’ appointment as Clare football manager last October garnered but a few inches of space in the national papers.

On the pitch, and along with every other player in blue yesterday, Cratloe wing-back and captain Martin ‘Ogie’ Murphy had run himself ragged as they worked to pull back a seven-point half-time deficit.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-13 Cratloe (Clare) 0-12

Clare’s Podge Collins will have to line out for his club, Cratloe, less than 24 hours after tomorrow’s All-Ireland final replay.

Clare’s Podge Collins will have to line out for his club, Cratloe, less than 24 hours after tomorrow’s All-Ireland final replay.

Pádraig Chaplin is fine-tuning the wiring in Setrights tavern.

A new Festival of Traditional Irish Breeding will be held as part of the horse section at next weekend’s two day Limerick Show.

Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will give championship debuts to four players in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 4pm).

Theoretically, the postponement of a game can be seen as a help as it allows both sides more time to prepare.