Two east Cork clubs will be involved in the All Ireland club finals on Saturday week in a Croke Park double header after Russell Rovers got the better of Micheál Breathnach

Having been set to take time away from football after his spell as Kildare manager, Cian O’Neill has revealed how Ronan McCarthy coaxed him into the Cork set-up as a coach to the senior footballers.

There are 17 clubs represented in the matchday panel, and 10 on the starting team.

An experimental Dublin side got their Walsh Cup campaign off to a winning start with a comfortable eight-point win over Westmeath.

The curtain came down on the Munster club championships with Russell Rovers taking the last piece of silverware in front of 1,610 enthusiastic spectators at the Fraher Field and adding another chapter in a fairytale season for hurling in East Cork.

Russell Rovers had too much firepower for a gallant Kilgarvan side in Saturday’s Munster Club JHC clash at Fitzgerald Stadium.

NA PIARSAIGH overcame the second-half sending off of Ronan Lynch to see off Kilmallock

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Brian Hartnett is your quintessential late bloomer.

A leading sports commerce analyst maintains Dublin GAA isn’t “over-funded” by Croke Park and that, if anything, “you could argue that we’re actually being underfunded”.

The result was never in doubt, so why did Kerry’s victory feel like a let-down?

Kerry made hard work of seeing off Clare in heavy conditions to book a Munster final spot against Cork in three weeks’ time.

According to the IRFU, the author of a book by a former British military intelligence officer, who claims he was employed to search for bugs inside the union’s headquarters, exercised ‘extreme degrees of artistic licence’ in his portrayal of a risk assessment carried out by a security consultancy.

Michael Shine (86) of Ballsbridge, Dublin, has pleaded not guilty to 13 charges of indecently assaulting seven boys allegedly committed during medical examinations at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth and at two private clinics in Drogheda.

A Cavan man has pleaded guilty before the non-jury Special Criminal Court this morning to helping an unlawful organisation murder dissident republican Peter Butterly.

Diarmuid O’Sullivan sees parallels between the current Limerick team and the late- nineties side he first encountered as a teenage defender with Cork.

Much like the championships and trophies accrued by teams on the field of play, the sustained commercial success of a sporting organisation does not happen by chance.

A late flurry of scores from Laois masked the dominant nature of Offaly’s performance at

The retired surgeon has been jailed for 20 months for sexual attacks on two teenage boys in the mid-70s.

A successful business making pens which have been bought by famous people around the globe was almost bankrupted by an uncle of the two teenage entrepreneurs.

A garda inspector has denied forcing a witness to make a statement against her partner, garda whistleblower Keith Harrison, at the Charleton tribunal.

The partner of a garda whistleblower who claimed he was subject to harassment and intimidation voluntarily left the home where she was living with him on three occasions, the Charleton tribunal has heard.

Systems and sweepers don’t interest Pat Hartnett. He’s a purist. Or at least that’s what he is selling.

Gardaí found two shotguns, pepper spray, iron bars, axe handles, knuckle dusters and knives when they searched a bikers’ clubhouse and cars where a man was shot dead.

The sentencing of sports journalist Tom Humphries for the sexual exploitation and defilement of a child has been adjourned to October.

Pat Hartnett doesn’t see any notable shift in mindset or culture as being the root cause of Cork hurling’s latest coming. The players, he insists, are simply doing themselves justice.

LATEST: The sentencing hearing date on the case has been fixed for July 26.

Cork is renowned as a sports-mad city, boasting a rich seam of success in all codes, whose heroes on the field of play attain iconic status.

Cork senior hurling selector Pat Hartnett says league champions Clare, who roll into Páirc Uí Rinn tonight for the NHL Division 1A opener against the home side, represent “a tall order” for a youthful Rebel team.

A man who as a 12-year-old consistently raped his sister has been jailed for a year because the law at the time states that a child under 14 years old cannot be guilty of rape.

A psychiatrist who specialises in sleep disorders has told a rape trial that she believes the accused has a history of sleep walking, night terrors and “sexsomnia”.

Cork City Sports meet director Joe Hartnett is extremely satisfied with the depth of talent assembled for the 65th edition of the event despite this year’s meet clashing with a number of national trials.

Once it was lawless gangs that ruled Balllinacurra Weston with their guns before the law caught up with them. But the troubled Limerick estate recently resumed its Wild West ways when a boy mounted on horse back drove cattle through its streets.

A phoney war in Thurles yesterday? Cork selector Pat Hartnett didn’t work too hard to dispel that impression.

The arrest of a man who was accused of IRA membership was yesterday ruled unlawful by the Special Criminal Court.

The suspect in the shooting of a Philadelphia policeman told investigators he shot the officer in the name of Islam and pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, according to US police.

A man jailed for life for the murder of journalist Veronica Guerin has moved to have his conviction declared a miscarriage of justice.

The woman who died on holiday in Asia has been named locally as Stephanie Hartnett of Mallow, Co Cork.