Cork are out of the Allianz Hurling League; this defeat for Kieran Kingston's side and Tipperary's victory over Waterford meaning the Rebels cannot progress to the knockout stages.

The Cork hurlers will be without first-team regulars Sean O’Donoghue, Damien Cahalane, and Conor Lehane for this weekend’s Allianz league visit of Limerick to Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Two second-half Patrick Horgan penalties and a most fortuitous Bill Cooper goal got Cork out of jail at a mucky Mullingar this afternoon.

Two German Shepherd dogs at the scene of a man’s obstructive behaviour towards gardaí in Crossbarry were described by a sentencing judge yesterday as “quasi weapons”.

Mark Landers bemoaned the old Cork failings that cost the Rebels in Sunday’s league defeat by Waterford.

Gardaí believe 'smiley faces' on speed detector signs are just as good, if not even more effective at slowing down drivers than GoSafe vans.

The recovery powers of Waterford’s youth were too much for a typically vapid League performance by Cork in Walsh Park today.

If the championship is Broadway and the NHL off-Broadway, how would you describe last Saturday night?

An early-season title for Limerick, winners over Cork in this Co-Op Superstores Munster SHL final in the Gaelic Grounds, with 5,295 in attendance.

“Sean O’Donoghue came in centre field and Bill Cooper played centre-back, we’re just trying fellas out to see how they go — this is the time of the year to do it.”

They beat Liam Cahill's Waterford in a soggy Fraher Field with 2,976 in attendance.

More than 180 people have gone bankrupt so far this year, according to the Insolvency Service of Ireland.

It should be an intriguing contest against the champions now with Midleton hell bent on avenging last year’s final defeat at the hands of the East Cork division. In truth though, on this performance they will really have to up the ante.

Next year’s junior cycle well-being course will include a unit of learning titled ‘Is Everybody Going Well’.

John Meyler wouldn’t be drawn on his future as Cork manager but he is convinced the future is bright for the county’s senior hurlers.

A cakewalk for Cork in Mullingar as they eased themselves into an All-Ireland quarter-final against Kilkenny in Croke Park in seven days’ time.

Stealth mode suited Limerick last year but don’t try convincing Alan Cadogan just yet that taking the alternative route to an All-Ireland title is to Cork’s advantage.

Alan Cadogan will start his first championship game for Cork since August 2017 at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday night.

Lehane limped off injured against Limerick last Sunday week while Spillane’s back issue has kept him out of action in Cork’s first two championship games.

Eighteen years have elapsed since a 15-man Cork last lost a Championship game to Limerick over 70 minutes. But defeat on Sunday at the Gaelic Grounds puts John Meyler's squad behind the eight-ball. Here are five key changes Cork must get right to be back in business.

Tipperary claimed their first win over Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in seven years but perhaps, more importantly, their first victory in Munster since 2016 in front of a 30,274 crowd.

Readers of a certain age will remember Tony Doran.

Diarmuid O’Sullivan has been nothing if not consistent.

A rousing finish from Glen Rovers - during which they hit 1-4 without reply - saw Richie Kelleher’s charges avenge last year’s county championship exit at the hands of Midleton.

Goals aplenty and lots of hooking and blocking as St Colman’s took advantage of the strong wind in a dominant second half to take the spoils – their first since 2008 and their sixth title in all.

I don’t know what took me to that place, up the yard.

The warmest round of applause on Leeside ever for a Kilkenny team? Considering the context, the sincerity of the welcome was no surprise.

Cork will play in Group A of the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 for 2020 after coming from behind to take a two-point win over Kilkenny in Nowlan Park this afternoon.

The Hannigan brothers — James and Scott — lit up the National Basketball Arena in Tallaght yesterday as they powered Gaelcholáiste Mhuire AG to U19A Boys Subway Schools Cup glory. The pair hit 53 points between them in a 68-79 victory over Mercy Mounthawk. Their scoring coupled with a superb display from David Lehane, secured a deserved title for the Cork side.

The game was over and a damp dusk drawing in but the people walking around Walsh Park were in no hurry to leave.

Conor Lehane insists Cork will target another Munster title success in 2019 and won’t be swayed by Limerick’s alternative path to All-Ireland glory.

Waterford’s Ballygunner are through to the Munster club hurling semi-finals, but only after a real battle with Midleton of Cork, who put it up to the favourites in a game that went to the wire.

Conor Lehane has admitted that the Cork hurlers turned a definite corner after 2016, the worst year of his career.

No complaints, said a member of the Midleton backroom as he and his colleagues walked into the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel yesterday, and a Cork senior hurling county final has rarely been summed up as succinctly.

Not since Blackrock overcame Imokilly back in 2001 has a team struck four goals on the concluding afternoon of the Cork hurling championship.

One of the most admired and respected figures in Irish schools sports was honoured over the weekend at the official opening of the superb €1.25 million Fr Aidan Lehane CSSp. Pavilion at Rockwell College.

Cork legend Diarmuid ‘The Rock’ O’Sullivan has hit out at the county's 'fickle' fans after yesterday's All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Limerick.

The focus yesterday on Anthony Nash’s puckouts was more fixed than is normally the case.

CORK 1-25 LIMERICK 0-28: The capacity of hurling to enthral knows no bounds as this wonder of a game demonstrated on Saturday evening.

Cork captain Seamus Harnedy says it’s “on to the next assignment” for him and his team-mates after Sunday’s Munster SHC win over Clare.

I was on co-commentary duty with RTÉ yesterday for the game in Limerick, which the Treaty won impressively. As a result I had to make do with watching the Cork-Clare game on TV, writes Donal O’Grady.

Cork 2-23 Clare 1-21: Is nostalgia ever justified?

An application by Gayle Killilea Dunne aimed at halting proceedings against her over the alleged transfer of South African properties between the Dunnes has opened before the High Court.