Since its inception 35 years ago, an event run by Cork Lions Club has raised more than €400,000 for various worthy causes.

All-Ireland Club IFC semi-final - St Mary’s (Kerry) 2-20 Ratoath (Meath) 1-5: Perhaps it was the talk of litmus tests and stern examinations that drove St Mary’s to such dizzying heights.

Carrigaline 2-12 Éire Óg 0-16: A goal by former inter-county star Nicholas Murphy a minute into injury-time gave Carrigaline the unlikeliest of victories over Éire Óg in this PIFC semi-final replay at Brinny on Saturday.

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.

Pobal Scoil Chorca Dhuibhne (Kerry) 1-10 St Francis College, Rochestown (Cork) 1-10

St Francis Rochestown 1-9 Coláiste na Sceilge 2-4

Éire Óg 0-9 Fermoy 1-3

Fuerty (Roscommon) 0-10 Keel (Kerry) 0-9

PJ Reidy took over the Keel job a year ago and 137 training sessions later the Castleisland native has the Mid Kerry team 60 minutes from an All-Ireland final.

Keel 0-14 Feohanagh/Castlemahon 0-04

No sooner had Martin Burke hoisted the Munster trophy, but manager PJ Reidy was plotting an All-Ireland assault.

Keel 0-14 Feohanagh/Castlemahon 0-04

AIB MUNSTER CLUB JFC FINAL:

Congratulations to the Irish Examiner and journalist Michael Clifford (Oct 28) in highlighting the injustice meted out to Johnny Duhan over a 12-year period and the courage of the singer/songwriter in fighting the Irish legal system.

Keel, making light of the loss of star forward Kieran Foley to injury, made no mistake at the second time of asking at Fitzgerald Stadium on Saturday evening when defeating St Pat’s in their Kerry JFC semi-final replay (2-14 to 1-10).

Killarney Legion 1-14 Mid Kerry 1-7

Look at the Corn Uí Mhuirí roll of honour and the powerhouses of Munster Colleges football leap off the page.

MUNSTER senior club champions Dr Crokes are on course for a sixth East Kerry (O’Donoghue Cup) championship in a row after a terrific second-half performance ended Glenflesk’s hopes of a shock semi-final upset at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney yesterday.

CIARAN Fennessy seems well assured of victory in this season’s novice riders point-to-point championship and the Fermoy amateur brought his tally for the campaign to an impressive 15 by giving the Tom Keating-trained Shuilegoric a well-judged front-running ride to win the five-year-old geldings’ maiden at the well-attended Carbery Hunt meeting on Inchydoney Island yesterday.

THIS clash of the titans may have failed to deliver on the pre-match hype, but few in Killarney will be complaining after Dr Crokes defeated West Kerry in Saturday’s Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park (1-8 to 0-5).

HOLDERS South Kerry did enough to secure their place in the semi-final of the Kerry SFC in Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

LIMERICK gardaí have renewed their appeal for information into the rape of a woman in the city and believe a taxi driver may be able to help.

LIMERICK gardaí are trying to track down two youths torching cars parked in the driveways of family homes.

GARDAÍ recovered a handgun and made five arrests during a series of early morning raids across Limerick city as part of a crackdown on criminal gangs.

A LIMERICK thief has been diligently working on her sex appeal.

GARDAÍ fear a Limerick criminal may try to con cash out of people by pretending to be a monk.

SNEAKY thieves have been giving guard dogs sedatives during break-ins to houses in the Limerick area, it has emerged.

Cork IT 1-15 DIT 1-10

THE Vintners Federation of Ireland (VFI) has been ordered to pay €43,000 each to two former employees who it was found to have unfairly dismissed.

THERE was nothing surprising about the outcome of the first of the Kerry SFC quarter-finals in Tralee yesterday, just that it stretched the resources of a Kerins O’Rahilly’s side hampered by the absence of the injured Tommy Walsh more than expected.

A VALENTINE’S Day heartbreak warning went out in Limerick last night — but it had nothing to do with romance.

ARMBANDS that could help save the lives of pedestrians are being designed by students whose friend was killed in a road accident.

EVEN before the Chirstmas/New Year crackdown on drink driving gets under way, a Limerick garda district yesterday reported a 26% increase in the incidents of drink driving so far this year.

A TOP level meeting has been held in Limerick involving senior gardaí, health and education officials and members of the probation service, to draw up a strategy to deal with a group of teenagers who are running out of control.

LIMERICK gardaí are appealing to female motorists to keep their car doors locked when they are on the road.

GARDAÍ fear that a vet’s stolen humane killer may have fallen into the hands of a Limerick crime gang.

THANK you for printing the fine letter from Liam Sheehan (Irish Examiner, December 8) replying to your columnist Peter Levy's offensive attack on religion (Irish Examiner County, November 23).

HAVING read Peter Levy’s column (Irish Examiner County, November 23) I wondered if I was living in the same country.

GARDAÍ fear an organised gang of Eastern Europeans will try to blitz Munster in the coming days with the best quality forged notes ever brought into this country.

Limerick Colleges 2-9 Coláiste na Sceilge 1-9