Galway football manager Kevin Walsh said he notices the circle of life as he calls players into his squad whose fathers he lined out with and against in his own career.

Ciarán Kilkenny will spend the coming months scanning the horizon, weighing up exactly where the greatest threats to Dublin’s four-in-a-row bid will come from.

Cork City needed extra-time before eventually seeing-off battling Wilton United to capture the Munster Senior Cup for the first time since 2008 at Turner’s Cross last night.

For Cork, this Munster minor quarter-final had dwarfed to a futile exercise long before the finish.

While many in Kerry are decrying the so-called poaching of the county’s top GAA players by Aussie Rules clubs, teenage AFL hopeful Stefan Okunbor insists that even the slightest chance to reach his athletic optimum and play sport professionally is too much of a lure to turn his back on.

Kerry 3-7 Galway 0-9: That 20-year famine that preceded the first of Jack O’Connor’s two minor triumphs must now surely be a distant memory down Kingdom country.

The homework carried out by Kerry on their opponents leading into yesterday’s final was a key factor in the county’s third consecutive minor success, according to Peter Keane.

After the yeses come the I dos.

I would like to speak to those people who are not sure whether they will vote ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the upcoming marriage referendum.

BRIAN WILMOT beat Paul Rafferty in a thrilling All-Ireland intermediate bowling final at Derrinasafa, Dunmanway yesterday. His win gave Munster four wins in the first All-Ireland series of 2011 against two for Ulster.

BRIAN WILMOT will be the standard bearer for Munster bowling in next weekend’s All-Ireland series on the Derrinasafa Road in Dunmanway.

ARTHUR McDONAGH will be a strong contender for next month’s All-Ireland Junior A title following an impressive two bowls-of-odds win over Michael Gould in the Munster final at Kilcorney.

GARY DALY had two important wins in three days when he beat Christy Mullins in the feature score of the West and Mid Festival at Ballinacurra on Sunday, hot on the heels of his last-shot win over Eamon Bowen Snr in the Mick Barry Cup at Ballincurrig on Thursday.

WORLD CHAMPIONS Aidan Murphy and Eamon Bowen Jnr shared the limelight at the weekend, winning their opening rounds of the Pat Barry Cup and the Mick Crowley Cup respectively.

THE first two All-Ireland series of 2010 have presented a positive picture about the state of road bowling.

ULSTER champion Conor McGuigan will be favoured to regain the All-Ireland Intermediate title when he takes on Paddy O’Donoghue on the Markethill Road, Armagh on Sunday.

DAVID MURPHY won the Jerry Desmond Cup final at Grange on Saturday where he beat Gavin Twohig by a bowl of odds.

THE REMAINS of Eileen Murphy and her son Evan will be buried tomorrow following funeral mass in their native Churchtown, County Cork.

A LIVERPOOL fan, little Evan Murphy had grown accustomed to going to sleep while looking at the curtains emblazoned with his favourite club’s crest and colours.

THE MENTAL state of 26-year-old Eileen Murphy, who is believed to have killed herself and her four-year-old son Evan at the Cliffs of Moher on Tuesday, will be examined by gardaí during the investigation into the two deaths, it was confirmed yesterday.

THIEVES who wrecked a special school and robbed computers worth thousands of euro have also stolen a little boy’s voice.

By Seán McCárthaigh THE first specialist educational unit for teaching autistic children at a national school has been approved for funding by the Department of Education.