Despite holding a six point lead, Clare were made sweat till the final seconds to secure their place in the provincial final

A late Darragh Flynn free earned Cork a 0-19 to 1-16 draw with Limerick at the end of a highly entertaining Munster MHC tie at LIT Gaelic Grounds.

Young inter-county players making themselves unavailable for club games was an “inevitable” development, according to Cork minor hurling manager John Considine.

Back in January 2014, I was asked to speak at the national coaching and games conference in Croke Park as part of a keynote address discussing some of the factors that made Kerry and Kilkenny seemingly perennial contenders in the senior football and hurling championships.

Tipperary 4-15 Cork 1-14: Tipperary blitzed Cork for a crucial first win of the Munster MHC round-robin which keeps alive their hopes of progressing.

Cork’s latest batch of minor hurlers won’t be fazed by the new structure of the provincial championship.

These were the scenes at the Rebel Óg annual overall awards at the Clayton Hotel Silversprings.

The regular meeting of the Cork County Board heard last night that long-serving secretary Frank Murphy is to be given a one-year extension to his contract.

Cork County Board has confirmed that outgoing selector and U21 coach John Meyler has been appointed as coach of the Cork Senior Hurling team for a two-year term.

With new Cork senior football manager Ronan McCarthy being introduced to the media last Monday, attention on Leeside now turns to the replacement for outgoing hurling boss Kieran Kingston.

A year ago, Cork county board coaching officer Kevin O’Donovan circulated a 25-point blueprint for the future of Cork GAA.

Cork U17 hurling manager John Considine is occupied with beating Dublin in Croke Park tomorrow, but at the same time he is well aware of the dual purpose nature of his role.

Fixture scheduling has really been of the famine-or-feast kind for the Cork U17 hurlers.

Tipperary’s league final hammering will have instilled significant belief in the Cork camp that victory is attainable this weekend, according to former Rebel County hurler John Considine.

Liam Sheedy and Henry Shefflin, present in Hayes’ Hotel in Thurles for the launch of RTÉ’s championship coverage earlier this month, were 10 minutes poring through the runners and riders for Liam MacCarthy before first mentioning the Cork hurlers.

Cork hurling manager Kieran Kingston is set to finalise his backroom team with the likely addition of Frank Flannery as a coach.

John Considine won an All-Ireland and an All-Star in 1990. He’d have been happy enough just to hurl once for Cork in the championship.

Sean O’Gorman on the men that defied the odds and the critics to win the All-Ireland senior hurling final in 1990.

Talks over the fixtures controversy between the five Clare clubs left in the county SFC dragged into the late hours last night.

Sarsfields 0-25 Ballymartle 1-12

Former GAA president Dr Mick Loftus was amongst the attendance yesterday at the funeral Mass of Down-born Joe McGrath who achieved notable successes as a hurling, football and camogie coach over the past 40 years while living in Cork.

Were Cork schools always strong in Munster colleges competitions? How accurate is this perception?

Having been such a dominant hurling force in both the Munster and All-Ireland Championships for so long, the Cork hurlers have had to endure seven trophy-less years, and midfielder Pa Cronin admits that wait is too long.

TEDDY McCarthy makes a stout defence of ousted Cork hurling manager Gerald McCarthy in the course of his autobiography, ‘Teddy Boy’, launched in Cork last night.

Blackrock and Glen Rovers, two of hurling’s biggest club names in the country, will battle each other to avoid relegation from the senior grade if they lose their championship games tonight.

There’s a standing joke here on the sportsdesk when it comes to the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend: tell the photographers to turn their backs on the action out on the field and focus on the personalities in the crowd.

Conor Lehane shot the lights out Saturday evening in Páirc Uí Rinn, ending with seven points from play in the home side’s Allianz HL Division 1 win over Waterford.

An elderly widower spends every day at his local Garda station for company and sleeps under his bed in terror every night, six years on from when he was tied up, beaten and robbed by a gang at his isolated farmhouse.

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

IN years to come it will be the stuff of death bed confessions. Yes Father, those are Celtic Crosses on the mantelpiece but, God forgive me, it’s time I got it off my chest; we used tactics.

Tipperary 2-16 Cork 1-09

IT is make or break time for the minor hurlers of Cork and Tipperary in tomorrow’s Munster championship semi-final playoff in Thurles (3.30pm).

WATERFORD corner-back Eoin Murphy was released from hospital yesterday after fracturing his skull in a club match last Friday night.