Tonight’s SHC fourth round clash between Midleton and St Finbarr’s in Páirc Uí Rinn (7.45pm) is just the clubs’ second meeting since 2005, but for older spectators it is sure to recall memories of an epic rivalry in the 1980s.

The Adrian Maguire-trained Seventh Sign served notice that he’s an extremely classy recruit to this season’s point-to-point ranks by narrowly coming out on top in a pulsating finale to the open lightweight at yesterday’s well-attended Boulta fixture that was run under the auspices of the West Waterford Foxhounds-

The roar of 60,000 "possessed" hurling followers rolling onto your shoulders at ground level in Semple Stadium; Johnny Crowley sipping a pint of Heineken through a straw while waiting to have his broken nose attended to following the 1987 Munster final replay and Denis Mulcahy’s "bone-crunching" tackle on Colm Bonnar in 1992.

A young Catholic priest will wake up on Christmas morning at a condemned apartment block in Ennis frequently used by heroin addicts as a squat.

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Peter Smith was on the last Midleton team to win the county SHC title in 1991, as part of a side which featured household names like Ger Fitzgerald, Kevin Hennessy, John Fenton, Pat Hartnett and Denis Mulcahy.

Midleton 2-15 Sarsfields 2-13

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

There was a huge crossover of personnel when Tipperary secured an All-Ireland senior and U21 hurling double in 2010.

Cork senior footballer Damien Cahalane is a notable inclusion in the county’s U21 hurling side for tomorrow night’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster semi-final with Tipperary in Semple Stadium (7.30pm).

The last time Cork played Limerick in a Munster final, Kevin Hennessy picked up his final Munster medal. He’s been through quite a bit since, including a brush with death, but still has his trademark bright outlook

A priest yesterday begged those in power to review policies towards homeless people to ensure there is no repeat of the fate suffered by Josef Pavelka.

A priest told mourners for the late homeless man Josef Pavelka last night it is not a time to be angry, but a time to remember “a real legend of a man we all knew”.

One of the priests involved in the care of the late Josef Pavelka says we must ensure that no other homeless person in Ennis dies in similar circumstances.

He faces his own assignment in Páirc Uí Chaoimh tonight but Ger Fitzgerald isn’t the only member of his household preparing for exams today.

Senior stars Conor Lehane and Jamie Coughlan will be key figures in the Cork attack for tomorrow night’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC quarter-final clash with Tipperary at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Cork U21 hurling boss Ger Fitzgerald has revealed that he will have to plan without teenage hurling sensation Darren Sweetnam for their Munster Hurling Championship opener against Tipperary due to a clash with the Leaving Certificate.

A CASH-STRAPPED Catholic diocese has received over €670,000 in a will.

LIAM BARRY and John Hodgins were last night ratified as selectors in Cork U21 hurling boss Ger Fitzgerald’s management team for the next two years.

DAN SHANAHAN has hinted it’s in Waterford’s best interests to look outside the county once more for a manager. The 2007 hurler of the year was a big supporter of his former team-mate Fergal Hartley for the role before he pulled out of the running.

Laois are set to appoint their fifth senior hurling manager in seven years, after it emerged yesterday that former Cork dual star Teddy McCarthy is set to take the role.

FORMER Cork dual star Teddy McCarthy will be named as the new Laois hurling manager in the next week.

Jimmy Barry Murphy was officially ratified as Cork's new senior hurling manager last night, in what will be his second stint in the job.

JIMMY Barry Murphy is tonight set to be ratified as the next Cork senior hurling boss.

CORK’S new senior hurling manager Jimmy Barry Murphy says his top priority is to get “a strong backroom team” in place ahead of next season.

JIMMY BARRY-MURPHY will not be hindered by his 11-year absence from the senior intercounty managerial gamewhen he takes charge of Cork for the 2012 season, according to Seanie McGrath who served under him when he steered the county to All-Ireland honours in 1999.

THE announcement yesterday by Jerry O’Sullivan, chairman of the committee charged with appointing a Cork senior hurling manager, that Denis Walsh — who has held the position for the past two and a half seasons — will not be reappointed has taken many by surprise.

There is growing speculation that Jimmy Barry-Murphy will take on the Cork manager's job, following the confirmation of Denis Walsh's departure.

THE Cork County Board executive motion to appoint three executive members and three club delegates to select the county’s next senior hurling manager was last night rubber-stamped by the delegates at a board meeting. The motion received 70 votes and defeated five other motions that were proposed on the night by various clubs.

CORK hurling legends Jimmy Barry-Murphy, John Fenton and Denis Coughlan are not expected to be involved in the selection of the county’s next senior hurling manager despite being nominated by two clubs to reprise the roles they filled in selecting Denis Walsh in March 2009.

IT WAS after 10pm on Wednesday night by the time Declan Hannon finally reached the sanctuary of the Limerick dressing room in the Gaelic Grounds.

WHICH county needs victory more in tonight’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC final?

DAMIEN CAHALANE has been drafted into the Cork team at full-back for tomorrow night’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC final against Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds at 7.30pm.

THE first steps in the process to select the next Cork senior hurling manager will be taken at tonight’s county board meeting in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Ger Fitzgerald's young Rebels gave Cork hurling a shot in the arm with last night's 4-19 to 1-12 Bord Gáis Energy Munster Under-21 semi-final win over Tipperary.

RECENT meetings against Tipperary in the U21 grade have been painful experiences for Cork with extra-time defeats in the last two years but the memories of those clashes were erased courtesy of a powerful winning performance in last night’s Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC semi-final in Semple Stadium.

AFTER the senior outfit’s abrupt championship exit last Saturday and the county minors finished for the summer also, the 2011 aspirations of Cork hurling rest with the U21s tonight.

THE man’s sport is swimming but, as he was speaking, we were all thinking hurling.

THE appointment process for selecting the next Cork senior hurling manager is expected to be overseen by the county board rather than the three-man independent committee used to select Denis Walsh in March 2009.

THE ordination of two seminarians this summer in the Diocese of Killaloe “will provide an extraordinary morale boost to priests in the diocese”, its director of vocations said yesterday.

CHRISTY COONEY has insisted that senior intercounty management must stop preventing U21 players from featuring in their own grade.

FOR the second year running extra-time was necessary to facilitate an outcome to a Bord Gáis Energy Munster U21HC tie between Tipperary and Cork last night in Páirc Ui Chaoimh, and once again it was Tipperary who prevailed in this semi-final after a marathon battle.