The Cork minor footballers got their Munster campaign back on track with this hard-earned victory yesterday evening.

Waterford won their first Munster MFC game in five years as they stormed back from six points down to surprise Clare in Dungarvan tonight.

So King Baby isn’t coming. We can all, starting with Leo Varadkar, exhale as one.

The joint-managers of the Clare hurling team, Gerry O’Connor and Donal Moloney, did not claim any expenses in 2017, outgoing county board treasurer Bernard Keane revealed last night.

There is no question but that Donald Trump will return to Doonbeg many times as United States president.

KERRY 0-14 CLARE 0-3: In a lifeless encounter in front of 1,962 souls, Kerry were erratic in front of goal, error-prone and lazy in the tackle.

Clare enjoyed a facile victory over a very poor Waterford side in the quarter-final of the Munster U-21 football championship at Miltown Malbay last evening.

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

Clare SFC: Champions Cratloe are through to the Clare SFC semi-finals following a 0-16 to 1-9 win over O’Curry’s at Lissycasey on Saturday.

The quarter-final pairings for the Clare SFC were finalised at the weekend.

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.

The violent storms that battered the west coast throughout the past 48 hours prevented Donald Trump junior and his brother Eric from making their way to West Clare to visit their magnificent new acquisition at Doonbeg.

Cratloe 0-10 Doonbeg 0-7

Cratloe made it through to their first Clare SFC final when they defeated Éire Óg, Ennis 2-8 to 0-9 in the semi-final at Clarecastle yesterday.

Ennistymon 0-9 O’Curry’s 0-7

Kilmurry-Ibrickane, champions for the past two seasons, were brought back down to earth at Cusack Park on Saturday when they succumbed to an impressive Cratloe by 0-11 to 0-4, in round one.

Champions Crusheen crashed out of the Clare SHC when Inagh-Kilnamona beat them in Saturday’s quarter-final at Cusack Park, Ennis on a scoreline of 4-10 to 1-17.

Three of the four Clare SFC semi-finalists are now known as a result of four last-eight games played at the weekend. Holders Kilmurry-Ibrickane will face Kilrush Shamrocks, but St Joseph’s Doora-Barefield will have to wait to and see as Doonbeg and Éire Óg Ennis played out a 2-11 to 3-8 draw.

The Clare SFC got underway at the weekend with some excellent football served up.

IT’S A dark and moonless night on the west coast.

CHAMPIONS Doonbeg recorded a Group One win over Ennistymon in the Clare SFC at Quilty on Saturday ( 3-9 to 1-7).

THE Clare senior football title race began this weekend and Kilmurry-Ibrickane record a first round win over Kilmihil on Saturday.

THERE’S roughly 137 miles separating Liam McHale’s home in Ballina in north Mayo and the village of Cooraclare in the west of Clare. In the winter he embarks on that route two nights every week to the pitch which is the epicentre for the Banner county’s football preparations.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott has dismissed suggestions that last year’s All-Ireland club finalists Kilmurry-Ibrickane are under represented on the current county senior football panel.

STRADBALLY are through to meet Nemo Rangers in the semi-final of the AIB Munster club football championship following a deserved victory over Doonbeg in Fraher Field yesterday.

Waterford's Stradbally and Dr. Crokes of Kerry advanced to the AIB Munster Club SFC semi-finals today, while Aherlow were crowned Tipperary SFC champions.

THE storyline never changes, but the protagonists often do.

A LITTLE over a week ago, Stewart Cink felt the urge to tell the world about his Doonbeg golf experience.

FÁILTE Ireland’s new director of golf Michelle McCreevy wore one of the broadest smiles of the thousands at Turnberry after Stewart Cink’s victory in the Open Championship.

STEWART CINK is a fine golfer, a gentleman and a worthy winner of the 138th Open Championship.

Waterford 0-07 Clare 0-9

A SCHEME by Doonbeg Golf Club to offer a scholarship at a top US college has been praised by an Irish golfer already on campus Stateside.

THERE should be laughs galore at the 55th North Cork Drama Festival, which opens at the Community Hall in Charleville tomorrow night and continues until March 31.

A POWERFUL production of Lyle Kessler’s play Orphans by Ballyduff Drama Group of west Waterford won the Bryan MacMahon Trophy, the top award in the open competition at the North Cork Drama Festival, now in its 54th year.

St. Senan’s Kilkee 3-8 Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-9

PAT HANRAHAN can sympathise with Pat O’Dwyer of Kilmurry-Ibrickane.

Bishopstown (Cork) 0-12 Stradbally (Waterford) 1-12

MUNSTER Council secretary Simon Moroney has confirmed that Kerry will play Cork in the provincial SHC on May 16 in Pairc Uí Chaoimh as part of a double-header with the SFC game between Limerick and Tipperary.

CHAMPIONS Kerry include five of last year’s starting 15 for tonight’s opening game in the Munster MFC against Clare in Cusack Park in defence of Munster minor crown.