Ballyhale Shamrocks made it to the All-Ireland senior club hurling final after this clash in Semple Stadium, Thurles with Ballygunner of Waterford.

Ballygunner came out on top in this epic Munster club SHC quarter-final at Walsh Park after extra time.

A stunning Mayo performance put an out-of-sorts Kerry out of their misery in a thoroughly deserving All-Ireland semi-final replay win.

Kerry and Mayo will have to do it all over again in Croke Park next Saturday as a Patrick Durcan additional time point effectively secured the replay.

An explosive Kerry made light work of Cork’s challenge to claim the county’s fifth consecutive Munster SFC title in Fitzgerald Stadium.

Ballygunner 4-20 Passage 1-12: The memory of the late Pat Flynn was honoured in style by his Ballygunner clubmen as they claimed a thoroughly convincing third consecutive senior county title in front of a disappointing 3,811 Walsh Park crowd.

Cloughduv 1-19 Clonakilty 0-10: Cloughduv had little difficulty in seeing off Clonakilty in the Cork JHC quarter-final tie at Brinny yesterday.

Cloyne 4-11 Carrigaline 0-12: Two late Cloyne goals distorted the scoreline of this Cork PIHC game with Carrigaline at Páirc Uí Rinn. 

Ballygunner 1-10 Cratloe 3-07

Waterford SHC final

Ballygunner 3-13 Passage 3-16

Wicklow 0-8 Meath 0-16

Wicklow 1-12 DCU 2-9

Cloughduv 0-10 Sarsfields 1-06

Portlaoise (Laois) 3-15 St Patrick’s (Wicklow) 0-4

St. Patrick’s (Wicklow)3-10 Éire Óg (Carlow)2-11 (Aet)

Mount Sion 0-16 Ballygunner 2-8

Mallow 3-9 Bantry Blues 1-14

A hard, real honest all-Gaeltacht tussle in Kilmichael on Saturday, no shortage of commitment from either Béal Athan Ghaorthaidh or Naomh Abán.

Ireland’s women’s team are out of the European Championship chase with two qualifiers left after losing to Scotland last night at Turner’s Cross.

Ireland women’s team striker Ruesha Littlejohn recalls her childhood trips to Killarney with fondness and now wants to put the country’s female side on the European football map.

Fielding a team with a liberal sprinkling of inter-county under 21, junior and senior players, Carbery served notice that they will have a big say in the battle for this year’s title after they had a comfortable victory over CIT in the third round of the Cork SFC at Cloughduv last night.

CLINICAL strikers Dean Rock and Michael McCarthy led Dublin to a five-point victory over Wicklow in a challenge match at Greystones last night.

Waterford put a stormy week behind them to eke out a two-point win away to Galway yesterday, a gritty victory which owed much to Shane Walsh’s match-turning goal.

Fermanagh came through this scrappy encounter that had more in common with a relegation battle than a push for promotion yesterday in Brewster Park.

A NEW YEAR and a new horizon loom large for Charleville’s junior hurlers.

DCU took the first step in defence of their O’Byrne Cup title at Baltinglass yesterday.

DRAMA in Walsh Park yesterday as visitors Na Piarsaigh of Limerick hammered three late goals past Waterford champions Ballygunner to book a place in the Munster club SHC final.

THIS Waterford SHC final was as one-sided as the score suggests as Ballygunner captured their 12th senior title with ease at sun-drenched Walsh Park yesterday.

THIS opening round of the Garveys Kerry senior football championship at Caherciveen yesterday proved to be much closer than generally anticipated, despite the underdogs being limited by the loss of eight players.

THE main difference between the teams in Caherciveen yesterday was that South Kerry had the overall strength to match their obvious ambitions to go far in the Garveys Kerry SFC.

ENOUGH Kerry SFC Round 1 grit on show here to cover the road from Scartaglin across the county bounds into Ballydesmond, but precious little guile and grace.

AFTER an enforced injury lay-off of almost nine months, King Henry is back — and triumphant too.

CHAMPIONS St. Brendan’s, Killarney had little difficulty beating Intermediate School Killorglin in a disappointing Corn Ui Mhuiri quarter-final at Listry yesterday.

A POWERFUL second-half display from Tipperary against University of Limerick yesterday saw the Premier County book a McGrath Cup quarter-final date with Waterford next Sunday.

AN inexperienced Cork outfit coped successfully without the bulk of their All-Ireland winners as they breezed past the challenge of Waterford IT in yesterday’s McGrath Cup preliminary round tie in Páirc Ui Rinn.

THE final scoreline suggests a landslide, a one-sided game in which underdogs Bruree could barely keep the ball kicked out to St. Mary’s, but that would be too simplistic a description.

DE LA Salle stormed to a second Waterford senior hurling title yesterday, reversing their group stages defeat at the hands of Ballygunner as they ran out easy winners in Walsh Park.

A TALE of two halves in Newcastle West yesterday as Monaleen claimed their fourth Limerick SFC title at the expense of an Adare side bidding for their first.

LISMORE made a stunning comeback to force a draw with titleholders Ballygunner in a highly charged Waterford SHC semi-final at Dungarvan’s Fraher Field yesterday.

A CRACKING Evening Echo Cork Junior A Hurling semi-final in Páirc Uí Rinn, with Cloughduv having two points to spare over Castlemartyr.