Patrickswell coach Declan Fitzgerald knows a thing or two about Sunday’s opposition.

A man has become the first deacon in the Catholic Church in Ireland to perform a wedding ceremony for his daughter.

Glen Rovers 0-23 Carbery 0-6: Holders Glen Rovers got off to a winning start in their Cork SHC opener at Coachford yesterday.

Tomás Ó Sé has described Sunday’s dramatic Munster club final finale as one of the cruellest “sucker-punches” he has ever endured as a player.

 

Emerging from the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel for their county quarter-final clash last September, Glen Rovers boss Richie Kelleher broke away from his squad to offer congratulations to the Na Piarsaigh management.

Glen Rovers 3-16 Bride Rovers 3-10

The third annual Reardens Club All Star awards take place next Monday at 7.30pm, with 45 hurlers and 45 footballers in contention to be recognised for their excellence in the senior championships this season.

Douglas 1-16 Glen Rovers 1-16

Glen Rovers 2-16 Bishopstown 1-08

St Finbarr’s 0-15 St Nicholas 2-8 (after extra-time)

Glass is used to very stylish effect, says Trish Dromey and gives the occupants vantage points to watch the sun come up and go down on Galway Bay

Given how Glen Rovers had fared in front of goal in this year’s Cork senior hurling championship, a 16-point win over Cloyne at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday would not have been high on the list of expectations.

Persistent rain and slippery underfoot conditions suggested this Cork SHC Round 2 clash would be a tight affair and that proved to be the case as Bishopstown prevailed by just a single point in Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night.

Castlehaven 3-16 St Nicholas 0-7

THERE have been so many search-for-a-supermodel shows in recent years that it must be difficult for them to gain much of an audience beyond their main demographic of young females.

A DRAW would have been the popular result in this entertaining, hard-fought and closely contested Cork senior hurling final in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

GLEN ROVERS’ painful 19-year absence from Cork county senior hurling final day will come to an end next Sunday.

NA PIARSAIGH claimed local bragging rights after crushing neighbours Glen Rovers in the opening round of the Evening Echo Cork senior hurling championship at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday night.

CORK attacker Niall McCarthy is set to make his comeback from injury in Sunday’s senior hurling challenge against Galway. The match, which is a repeat of the recent NHL Division 1 final between the counties, takes place in Castlelyons at 5pm.

CORK defender Ronan Curran has no qualms with the controversial timing of this weekend’s NHL Division 1 final but admits that it will pose difficulties for supporters.

DAVID CUNNINGHAM, Glen Rovers, takes over the full back slot left vacant by the injury to Eoin Cadogan for Cork’s last game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NHL against Galway at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

Cork 1-22 Offaly 1-11

WITH ace forward Eoin Kelly passed fit following a back injury, Tipperary have named nine of the side that started against Kilkenny in last season’s All-Ireland final for tomorrow night’s opening Allianz NHL game against the champions under lights at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

AN exhibition of point scoring by John Gardiner, plus two goals from local hero Michael Cussen, edged Cork to an exciting victory over Waterford in an entertaining challenge game to mark the official opening of the Sarsfields club’s new sand based pitch and flood-lighting system at Riverstown on Saturday night.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK’s second-half scoring spree put Cork out of the Waterford Crystal Hurling Cup at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday, the students’ 1-8 without replay after the break giving them a well-earned victory in front of 1,652 spectators.

PATRICK CRONIN is set to miss Cork’s entire National Hurling League campaign after suffering a serious knee injury. Cronin will be out of action for a minimum period of three months but it is hoped he may be able to make a return before Cork’s Munster SHC opener against Tipperary in Páirc Ui Chaoimh on May 31.

GLEN ROVERS renew acquaintances with Newtownshandrum in the Evening Echo Cork SHC with confidence.

CORK corner-forward Patrick Horgan showed some real class as Glen Rovers defeated Blackrock 3-11 to 0-15 in a top-class Evening Echo Cork SHC quarter-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Glen Rovers 3-11 Blackrock 0-15

Glen Rovers 0-16 Ballinhassig 0-12

A FEW short years ago, when they won the Intermediate title for the first time, a rosy future beckoned for Delanys.

Ireland 30 Scotland 13, Donnybrook

REPRESENTATIVES of an overseas property agency who failed to turn up at an Employment Appeals Tribunal have been ordered to pay €182,700 to a former employee.