Cork SFC fourth-round replay: Clyda Rovers 1-11 Newcestown 1-9

Cork SFC

Cork Premier IHC: Newcestown 2-14 Kilbrittain 1-8

Newcestown 4-17 Bandon 0-18

Castlelyons 0-13 Newcestown 0-11

Newcestown 0-13 St Vincent’s 1-8 (aet)

It was slated as the game of the championship between two of the campaigns pre-tournament heavyweights but in the end you’d have to wonder was the hype misplaced.

A sparkling performance from Newcestown last evening in Cloughduv put them back in the Cork Premier IHC after they made the most of their third and final chance.

Mallow 3-20 Newcestown 3-19 (AET)

All the positive spin in the world cannot hide the desperation that has engulfed the once mighty St Nicholas.

Galway 1-21 Dublin 1-12

A VERITABLE goal-fest of an All-Ireland minor semi-final but a game won with consummate ease by Dublin who now face Galway in next month’s final, their first in 28 years.

IRRESPECTIVE of the outcome of tomorrow’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final in Croke Park, it will be a novel experience for the winners to have qualified for an All-Ireland decider. Waterford last reached the final in 1992, while Dublin’s wait stretches back to 1983.

BARRY HORGAN provided the inspiration as Newcestown saw off the challenge of Bishopstown in a keenly contested county senior football championship fourth round tie in Ovens last night.

NEWCESTOWN had star player and dead ball specialist Eoin Kelly to thank for their one point victory over Ballincollig in last night’s PIHC fourth round meeting at Cloughduv.

WINNING silverware is rarely straightforward and Dublin can certainly attest to that after dragging themselves over the winning line to claim a 13th Leinster MHC title at Croke Park yesterday.

COACHED by former Ireland star Eric Miller, St Gerard’s exacted speedy revenge on Roscrea for their Schools Senior Cup semi-final defeat by winning an absorbing Leinster Senior League final at Donnybrook yesterday.

NEWCESTOWN’S title aspirations ground to a shuddering halt in dramatic circumstances at Ballinspittle on Saturday when a late flurry of Ballymartle points put them out of the Cork Premier IHC.

NEWCESTOWN’S title aspirations ground to a shuddering halt in dramatic circumstances at Ballinspittle on Saturday when a late flurry of Ballymartle points put them out of the Cork Premier IHC.

GROUNDBREAKING stuff in Dublin 4. St Gerard’s have never won the Leinster Schools Senior Cup but they paid scant attention to history yesterday by seeing off defending champions and 66-time winners Blackrock in this nip-and-tuck quarter-final.