Patrickswell bring the only 100% record into the knockout stages of the Limerick senior hurling championship after a 1-18 to 0-19 win over Limerick and Munster club champions Kilmallock.

LAST June they played out a wondrous game of hurling in Páirc Uí Chaoimh that reached the dizzying scoring heights of 5-17 apiece and that is the backdrop which tonight this year’s Cork and Tipperary minor hurlers meet in the ESB Munster MHC quarter-final in the same venue at 6.30pm.

THERE was no cheering in Claughaun GAA hall on Tuesday evening as the result of the ballot was read out. There was not a single whoop nor holler as the final tally was announced, an emphatic 83/47 win for the county board and for Justin McCarthy and his management team.

LIMERICK boss Ger Hegarty has made two changes for tonight’s crucial Munster MHC play-off with Waterford at the Gaelic Grounds, 6.30pm.

AFTER a lifetime of service on the playing fields, Brian Lohan has turned his attention to management.

Divers were today resuming attempts to raise the Pere Charles trawler after bad weather suspended operations overnight.

THE family of a fisherman who drowned off the south-east coast have severely criticised the Government for the 21-month delay in raising the doomed boat which sank last year.

The dive to recover the bodies of the five fishermen who went down with the Pere Charles trawler could be delayed for at least a week, the Coast Guard said tonight.

Naval divers are searching the wreck of the trawler, Pere Charles, which sank six days ago in a bid to recover the bodies of the five missing crewmen.

ROUGH sea conditions off the Co Waterford coast once again prevented the bodies of five fishermen being recovered yesterday from their sunken trawler.

THE search for the five fishermen who were on board the Pere Charles is now concentrated on an area of sea about two miles off Hook Head.

Civilian divers from Dundalk Sub Aqua Club have joined the search for a Co Louth fisherman who is missing off the Waterford coast.

THE Limerick team to play Galway in Sunday’s All Ireland minor hurling championship final shows one change from the side which defeated Dublin the semi-final.

LIMERICK minor hurling team manager Tim O’Connor acknowledges that they may be carrying a heavy weight of expectation into tomorrow’s Munster final showdown against Cork as 21 years have passed since they were last crowned champions.

FORMER Kerry footballer John Kennedy is relishing his new role at the helm of the Clare senior footballers.