Students who received their Junior Cert results today are being urged to celebrate responsibly.

An exhibition of free-taking from Brian Turnbull ended Cork’s 10-year wait for an All-Ireland minor final appearance, writes Eoghan Cormican.

Cork 1-19 - Dublin 1-17: Cork made history by edging 14-man Dublin by two points in their highly competitive All-Ireland U17 Hurling Championship final at Croke Park yesterday lunchtime.

Estate agent Liam Murphy guides the extremely well kept home, one whose design has stood the test of time, at €285,000, the price of a city semi-d.

In a week when a number of larger-sized holdings have come on the market, an 80-acre residential farm just 4km north of Kanturk is one of the highly anticipated and sought-after offerings in the country.

‘A great asset to the club, a great man to have’

John Martin closes the front door of his uncle Nick Power’s house behind him and makes for the top of Oxmantown road. His instruction, from there, is to turn right onto North Circular Road and head in the direction of the City centre until Croke Park presents itself in the Dublin skyline. Martin, having never been to Croker, hasn’t one iota where he’s going.

Carrigaline 1-6 Éire Óg 0-9: A magnificent long-range point four minutes into injury time by Daniel Goulding earned Éire Óg a second chance in a lively Cork Premier IFC semi-final at Brinny yesterday.

While working over in Dubai, Cork man Liam Murphy decided to a day trip to the Ferrari World theme park in Abu Dhabi yesterday.

Éire Óg 2-18 Argideen Rangers 2-15 (aet): A great start and powerful finish was enough to see Éire Óg through Saturday night’s pulsating Cork IHC second round clash with Argideen Rangers at Ballygarvan.

Munster Post Primary SAFA semi-final: St Francis College, Rochestown 1-10 St Brendan’s College, Killarney 1-9

Éire Óg 0-14 Rockchapel 0-06

Éire Óg 0-9 Fermoy 1-3

Cork City manager John Caulfield believes his side are being unfairly painted as dirty following last Friday’s SSE Airtricity League Premier Division clash with St Patrick’s Athletic.

Four years ago he stood defeated in a Dr Crokes dressing room in Fitzgerald Stadium. Two broken ribs helped to focus his mind: enough, he was done.

The two boys whose bodies were found in the boot of their father’s car are expected to be buried in their home village at the weekend.

Dr Crokes 3-13 East Kerry 1-15

UCC 2-20 Imokilly 3-10

South Kerry 2-17 East Kerry 1-11

Yesterday’s United Hunt Club’s point-to-point fixture at Bartlemy brought new meaning to the phrase marathon for there were no less than 11 races with proceedings concluding at 6.15pm, following a 1pm start.

Having been to Caherlag graveyard recently I was very, very impressed to see what a wonderful job was carried out on the cleaning up of the overgrown graveyard.

I do not agree at all with Séan Óg Ó hÁlpin’s story (Feb 26).

It has come as a surprise, even to Showjumping Ireland, that membership and registration figures for January are up, albeit marginally, on the same time last year.

Corkman Tony Hurley was last night elected chairman of ShowjumpingIreland at the first meeting of the new executive.

Shane Sweetnam scored a third place in yesterday’s feature class on day two of the $4m FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival in Florida, having notched up back-to-back victories on Wednesday.

Like Liam Murphy, (Letters, Sept 17,) I regret Rory McIlroy’s apparent reluctance to play on Team Ireland in the 2016 Olympics.

I was not one bit surprised to read how Rory McIlroy might not play under the Irish flag.

Éire Óg 3-11 Kildorrery 1-10

East Kerry easily brushed aside the weak challenge posed by Gneeveguilla in their Kerry SFC clash played at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday.

Dingle 1-15 Gneeveguilla 0-9

Rathmore are benefiting from retired inter-county star Tom O’Sullivan’s presence as they sit proudly on top of Division 1 after a tough 0-7 to 0-6 local derby win over Gneeveguilla.

Dr Crokes, with Colm Cooper directing operations from full-forward, edged Austin Stacks in the glamour Kerry senior club football championship clash at Connolly Park yesterday (0-17 to 1-11).

Billy Twomey is confident that he and Denis Lynch have won two individual spots for Ireland in the Olympics, saying that, with almost three weeks to go to the March 1 cut-off date, they cannot be caught by Spain’s Sergio Alvarez Moya.

What is our GAA coming to?

IT may once have given Glastonbury a run for its money, but Nadd village — the location of the former Naddstock Festival — has reverted to being a sleepy hamlet in the mists of the Boggeragh Mountains.