Paul O’Shea from Kilcummin will captain the Kerry minor footballers as they begin their quest for a historic fifth consecutive All-Ireland minor crown.

They have won five of the last seven Kerry football championship, and on days like these, it’s hard to figure how Dr Crokes contrive to lose any game at all.

There’s been no mention in the Crokes camp of an All-Ireland club semi-final or avenging the spring disappointments of 2012, ‘13 and ‘14.

A look ahead to tonight’s three games...

Seán Barron and Michael O’Halloran are the two Waterford debutants for Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium (3.30pm).

Clare enjoyed a facile victory over a very poor Waterford side in the quarter-final of the Munster U-21 football championship at Miltown Malbay last evening.

Cork midfielder Ian Maguire has overcome a back injury and is selected for tomorrow’s Munster U21 football quarter-final against Limerick.

St Francis Col, Rochestown 1-8 CBS HS Clonmel 0-6

The Nire (Waterford) 1-11 Ballylanders (Limerick) 0-7

There was a time when Waterford’s presence in the Munster MFC was almost incidental, tussling to avoid the tag of being the worst in the province.

Kerry minor manager Jack O’Connor believes county board bosses must appoint a Director of Football to ensure the Kingdom’s finest underage talents are not lost before transition to senior ranks.

An injury-time intervention from sub Shane Walsh guided The Nire past Kilrossanty (1-16 to 1-15) in a gripping quarter-final on Saturday night.

Since 2005, any year ending in an odd number has seen Cork claim the Munster and All-Ireland junior football titles.

Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will give championship debuts to four players in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 4pm).

Stradbally 1-8 Nire 0-10

Stradbally 2-02 Nire 0-08

And so they meet again tomorrow.

Clare 0-13 Waterford 0-7

High School, Clonmel, despite playing with 14 men for the majority of the second-half, held off St Flannan’s at Lattin yesterday to reach the Munster Colleges Frewen Cup (U16½ AFC) final.

PREVIEW: Munster U21FC Semi-Final

NIRE dethroned champions Ballinacourty to claim the Waterford SFC title in this replayed decider at Fraher Field, Dungarvan yesterday.

WHATEVER their fate in next Sunday’s provincial decider against Dr Crokes, the Nire will long remember their epic Munster senior football championship semi-final replay victory over Tipperary champions Aherlow at windswept Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

Stradbally 0-6 Nire 0-6

Dublin kingpins Kilmacud Crokes trounced St Peter's Dunboyne of Meath 1-14 to 0-3 in the Leinster Club Football quarterfinals today.

Stradbally 1-5 Nire 0-8

FOR the fifth time in six years, arch-rivals Mount Sion and Ballygunner meet in the Waterford SHC final at Walsh Park tomorrow.

WATERFORD will be without Shane Walsh, their goal-scoring hero from last year's historic Munster U21 football final victory over Kerry, when the sides renew acquaintances in the semi-final in Killarney tomorrow night (7.30pm).

CONOR FITZGERALD is to miss Limerick’s historic Allianz NFL Division One campaign.

WITH football now enjoying a higher profile in Waterford, Fraher Field, Dungarvan, will house a huge attendance tomorrow for a doubleheader featuring the first of the county senior championship semi-finals and the remaining quarter-final.

Nire 1-9 Ardmore 0-8

Stradbally 3-9, Nire 3-6

Nire 3-14 Kilmacthomas0-7

Nire 3-14 Kilmacthomas0-7