A crunching Kieran Donaghy in the penultimate minute of normal time appeared to have provided Austin Stacks with the platform to secure extra-time only for Shane Carroll to kick the free wide.

Sigerson Cup First Round

The potent attacking arsenal available to UCC was rolled out for all to see as they overcame the shock of an early Cork IT goal to rout their Cork rivals in the Sigerson Cup at the Mardyke today.

Austin Stacks 1-14 Kerins O’Rahillys 1-9: Tralee Board SFC final: Former Younger Footballer of the Year, Tommy Walsh, made his competitive return to gaelic games at Austin Stack Park on Saturday night.

UCC have the possibility of making history tomorrow night when they face Waterford in the McGrath Cup final (Fraher Field, 6pm), but it’s arguably a distraction they could have done without.

No Declan O’Sullivan in the team, no Colm Cooper in the squad and two changes to the side that beat Mayo.

Austin Stacks 0-17 Rathmore 2-5

UCC 1-12 Cork IT 1-9

UCC 0-10 UUJ 0-09

Resilience, belief but most of all heart — 13-man UCC ticking all three boxes in defying their underdog status and securing a place in this evening’s Sigerson Cup decider.

SIGERSON CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

UCC 1-14 Trinity College 1-07

Kerins O’Rahillys 0-11 Austin Stacks 0-10

Austin Stacks 3-12 Feale Rangers 0-3

Cork 0-12 Wexford 1-7

Kerry 2-12 UCC 0-10

Only a few months into his tenure as Kerry manager and Eamonn Fitzmaurice is ready to quit. No, not his new job, which he’s thoroughly enjoying, his playing career.

Dr Crokes 1-13 Austin Stacks 0-8

Austin Stacks 1-9 South Kerry 0-7

Austin Stacks1-14 St Kieran’s1-11(AET)

Cork 2-12 Kerry 1-14 (aet)

Kerry U21 boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice urged his team not to get carried away by last night’s 31-point demolition of Waterford in an extremely one-sided Munster football championship semi-final.

Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice has made two changes for Wednesday’s Munster U21FC semi-final against Waterford in Austin Stack Park from the side that defeated Tipperary in the quarter-final.

They may have finished the game with 13 men but Kerry still produced a controlled performance to arrest their recent run of underage defeats to Tipperary in last night’s Cadbury’s Munster U21FC quarter-final in Semple Stadium.

New Kerry boss Éamonn Fitzmaurice has named his side to face Tipperary in the Cadbury’s Munster U21 FC quarter-final on Wednesday evening (Semple Stadium, Thurles, 7.30pm).

Kildare qualified for their first All-Ireland Vocational Schools football final thanks to goals in each half from Kelvin McNally and Emmett O’Keeffe at Ardagh, Longford on Saturday.

DESPITE scoring a spectacular own goal two minutes from the end, Kieran Donaghy inspired Austin Stacks to an extra-time win over Dingle in a fiery Kerry SFL final in Dingle on Saturday.

DOUGLAS laid the foundation for their hard-earned win over Ballyagran in the opening five minutes of the second-half when they scored three points into a strong wind to add to their five-point interval advantage.

KERRY’s reigning football champions will fly the club flag in isolation at next weekend’s semi-final stage.

WEXFORD put their recent history of agonising semi-final defeats behind them with a commanding second-half performance to book a berth in the Gala All-Ireland senior camogie final in front of 3,082 people at Nowlan Park.

Wexford 3-12 Kilkenny 1-11

KERRY boss Pat O’Driscoll wasn’t in the mood to offer excuses after this footballing lesson at GAA headquarters. Instead he heaped the praise on Tyrone.

ROSCOMMON boss Fergal O’Donnell has opted to keep faith with the team that sprung a major surprise in the recent Connacht decider against Sligo for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Cork at Croke Park.

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has made three changes to his starting 15 for next Sunday’s Munster MFC final against Kerry in FitzGerald Stadium, Killarney.

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has made six changes for tomorrow night’s Munster MFC semi-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium at 7pm from the team that scraped to victory over Clare in their quarter-final in Ennis four weeks ago.

KERRY had their expected victory over Tipperary in the opening round of the ESB Munster MFC in Tralee last night but it was a close-run thing in the finish as Tipperary banged in two late goals to leave the home side hanging on with just two points to spare.

EOGHAN GRACE provided the inspiration to propel Shannon into the semi-finals of the Munster Senior Cup after a hard-fought contest in Musgrave Park yesterday.

Adare 1-17 Na Piarsaigh 0-3

Garryowen 12 Shannon 10

AIB league champions Shannon face the toughest of starts to the defence of their crown tonight as they face old rivals Garryowen in Dooradoyle (7.30pm).

REWARDING consistency has always been a Shannon thing, and it remains so under the coaching baton of Geoff Moylan in the build up to this afternoon’s AIB League final clash with Clontarf at Thomond Park (4pm).

Teams for the finals of the AIB League Divisions One, Two and Three

CLONTARF’S flirtation with AIB League glory has been consigned to failure in recent years; five semi-finals and two final appearances being just the sum total of the club’s success.

DROM and Inch created history by winning the Munster senior camogie title for the first time at Mahon on Saturday.