Sean O’Gorman on the men that defied the odds and the critics to win the All-Ireland senior hurling final in 1990.

Second-round games in the Cork county championships are laden with enough tension, even without a local derby element.

Waterford 1-21 Cork 1-11: Shane Bennett didn’t travel on the team bus to Páirc Uí Rinn, his father Pat transporting him across the border.

Waterford manager Derek Lyons felt that his side’s victory owed as much to hard work and doing the basics as it did to the many moments of skill and quality.

The all-too-familiar criticism surrounding Cork hurling’s underage plight was yet again dragged front and centre in the wake of the county’s Munster semi-final defeat to Waterford earlier this month.

Mark Landers was last night confirmed as the new coach of the Cork senior hurling team.

Cork 3-18 Waterford 0-16

Brian Cuthbert has been appointed the new Cork senior football manager on a two-year term.

Two youngsters clashed in the 1987 All-Ireland minor final, Tipperary v Offaly, who featured in a lot of headlines subsequently. You know them well...

Damien Irwin laments the passing of an era when bloodied, bandaged hurlers staggered across the landscape – and a player became synonymous with a gap in his teeth or a shock of red curls

SATURDAY evening’s tie between Killeagh and St Finbarr’s will be a first meeting at senior hurling championship level for both clubs. Last time these sides clashed was in 1998 when they collided in the intermediate grade and ironically they will return once again to the same sod in Carrigtwohill this weekend.

Killeagh 1-12 UCC 0-15