With the Corn Uí Mhuirí now at quarter-final stage, Denis Hurley runs the rule over eight talents who have impressed in the campaign.

The Galway County Board is running out of coaches to oversee GAA Cúl Camps in the county.

St Brendan's College Killarney repeated their Corn Uí Mhuirí success of just seven days earlier with a 12-point victory

St Brendan’s were merciless in putting Coláiste Chriost Rí to the sword at Cill Na Martra today, winning by 27 points in wet conditions.

Mount Oval home is modern and spacious, writes Trish Dromey

THREE late points propelled Ballintubber to their fifth Mayo SFC title after an absorbing final at a rain-soaked McHale Park, Castlebar this evening.

Hurling clubs in Galway will meet later this week to start the process again of coming with a manager to lead the senior team in 2020 after all three nominated to succeed Micheál Donoghue withdrew their names.

Former Limerick captain Donal O’Grady has replaced Brian Geary in John Kiely’s management team for 2002 as Kiely was last night ratified for another two years at the helm with the option of a third.

Timothy Grady is in Bantry this week to host a concert, and read from his classic book about the Irish in London, writes Don O'Mahony.

For decades it was regarded as the classic All-Ireland final pairing. Leeside versus Noreside, red and white versus black and amber. The three-parter of 1931 which brought hurling to the attention of the nation.

A Jack Downey 45 in the fourth minute of second-half stoppages handed victory to Limerick in this Munster U20 football quarter-final.

Two former Tipperary forwards are concerned Liam Sheedy’s team could suffer against Limerick in the Munster Final as a result of beating them last Sunday week.

The population of the Macroom electoral area is 36,844 and, despite the removal of Blarney from the district into the city jurisdiction, the number of seats up for grabs there will remain at six.

The GAA have maintained season ticket scanners were working at the Kerry-Mayo Division 1 Round 6 game last Saturday week.

Doon are Limerick Premier U21 hurling champions for the first time since 2005 after a thrilling win over Na Piarsaigh at the Gaelic Grounds.

A gutsy second-half comeback means Hospital edge past Blackwater to finish top of Group C in the Dr. Harty Cup.

Clonmel’s six-race hurdle card proved a profitable one for favourite backers, with odds-on chances obliging in the first three races, but the feature event, the www.grahamnorris.com Memorial Handicap Hurdle, went to one of the outsiders, Time For Mabel.

Former Tipperary goalkeeper Brendan Cummins is an early favourite to succeed Derek McGrath as Waterford manager.

Limerick made it through to the Munster Minor hurling final defeating Clare by a single point, in a thriller at Cusack Park.

The Government has been accused of passing the responsibility for the provision of affordable housing onto councils, with councillors in the country’s largest local authority claiming that a key state strategy for building homes lacks clarity.

Former Dublin manager Michael O’Grady reckons there is more pressure on Wexford than Dublin ahead of their Leinster SHC round two game on Sunday.

The barrister for a man charged with murdering another man in his home has suggested that his client was trying to wrestle the knife from his self-harming nephew when it entered the deceased man’s chest.

Cork county councillors have expressed shock at the amount of money the council had to spend on the Government-trumpeted Gateway jobs scheme.

Two boys were sexually abused by an older teenager who told one of them that he would do the same to his sisters if he reported the abuse to his parents.

As the ‘Beast from the East’ fast approaches, Cork County Council is not only preparing for polar conditions but is also worried about the cost as the Government does not properly reimburse it for the damage such weather events can cause.

After proving a class apart from his rivals in making a winning debut for new connections in the featured Grade Three Surehaul Mercedes-Benz Novice Hurdle in very testing conditions at Powerstown Park, Chris’s Dream earned his ticket to next month’s Cheltenham Festival for a tilt at the Albert Bartlett.

Cork County Council is not buying the right type of private houses for those on the waiting list and should be building major social housing schemes itself to address the current housing crisis.

The Office of Public Works (OPW) may have to revisit the drawing board on a proposed flood-prevention scheme, after reportedly failing to factor in flooding incidents during a cost-benefit analysis.

The West’s Awake was a poignant winner of the two-and-a-half-mile novice chase at Punchestown yesterday.

The housing crisis has deepened in Co Cork, with an additional 540 applicants joining the county council’s waiting list in the past year.

Plans to increase the movement of academics, students and innovation between Ireland and other countries are being boosted this week.

A pre-inquest hearing into the Buncrana Pier tragedy, in which five members of the same family drowned, has heard that first responders could not open the doors of the car which had entered the water.

Homeowners in Co Cork will not have to pay increased Local Property Tax (LPT) next year after the majority of councillors voted to maintain the status quo.

Cork Constitution advanced from a tough Bank of Ireland Munster Senior Cup tie against Shannon with a late rally at Coonagh on Saturday.

More than 3,000 students are being offered third-level college places by the Central Applications Office (CAO) today.

The world of sport, with its seemingly endless capacity to invent and reinvent itself, has demonstrated time and again that there is nothing permanent, nothing resistant to transition.

Dónal Óg Cusack caused controversy on TG4 earlier this year when he recalled Cork manager Donal O'Grady's pre-match speech about the War of Independence.

Not one of the 205 people taken on by Cork County Council through the government’s Gateway scheme got permanent employment with the local authority.

A catalogue of missed chances allowed Wexford to hold on for their first championship win in two years, and end Limerick’s summer in the process.

Kildare have coasted through a Leinster football semi-final on the back of the most facile of victories over an utterly insipid Laois side in Tullamore this afternoon.

Fears have been raised that too many people are building houses in Co Cork and then seeking planning retention after they have completed construction.

Gangs of criminals from Dublin and Limerick which have targeted rural areas of Cork will now be tracked by new CCTV technology which is being installed in the town of Macroom.