Competition for the three Munster places for the third All-Ireland series intensified in the past week.

Cork 5-15 Kerry 2-10 

Here we go: On the road again. Today, we take on the longest drive of our trip in France, writes Joe Leogue

How West Cork farmers Kieran, Catherine and Cathal O’Sullivan won the 2015 national NDC & Kerrygold Quality Milk Award will be revealed at their farm walk on the afternoon of Friday, 17th June 2016.

Dripsey 3-9 Aghada 2-9: Having battled relegation in recent years, Dripsey now find themselves in a first Cork IHC final against all expectations.

The Verve were clearly not describing Billy Idol when they said the drugs don’t work.

These are busy times for Conor Cusack in the sporting arena and beyond but he is rising to the challenge with his customary passion, writes Kieran Shannon.

In 1982, the country was stunned by a series of scandals. Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey inspired the sobriquet “GUBU” in describing one but a truly grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented event went essentially unnoticed in Kerry.

BUNAW PIER-KILMAKILLOGE HARBOUR, BEARA, CO KERRY

No Declan O’Sullivan in the team, no Colm Cooper in the squad and two changes to the side that beat Mayo.

Mickey Ned O’Sullivan was the first footballer to score a goal in Páirc Uí Chaoimh and all going well was meant to be coaching the Kerry minors on the last day the old ground hosted a Munster football final as well.

MUNSTER SHC QUARTER-FINAL REPLAY:

Mark Selby rocked Ronnie O’Sullivan with one of the great Crucible comebacks as his tenacity and sheer appetite for the task was rewarded with a first World Championship title.

It was the “Southie Selfie” that showed just how important the day of Irish celebration is to the most powerful in Boston politics.

* With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. [CS Lewis]

Two men who barged their way into the home of two brothers because they claimed they wanted a “straightener” over a drug debt have been jailed for stabbing the men’s fathers.

The leader of the Green Party has said people living in a family home who cannot afford to pay their mortgage should not be evicted from that house.

A man whose family is facing eviction said he hopes their decision to go public will give thousands of other families in mortgage arrears the strength to take a stand.

A family facing eviction in Kanturk, Co Cork, may not be following all the options legally available to them to help keep their home, the Taoiseach has told the Dáil.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny has been accused of washing his hands of home repossessions as anti-eviction campaigners vow to stop a family being thrown out of their home.

REMOVING plants (or people) from their native soil and transplanting them to far off climes is not always successful but sometimes they thrive.

IN CASE you missed it Wednesday, Apr 17, was World Malbec Day, a chance for Argentina to promote their wines and the grape variety that they now claim as their own.

Kerry 0-11 Down 1-5

Kerry face Cork in Sunday’s Munster semi-final with 11 of the team that beat Tipperary last Sunday week. Bryan Sheehan has been ruled out with a knee injury, while there’s a recall for Kieran Donaghy, a used substitute in Thurles.

Fermoy withstood a strong second-half challenge from Aghada to emerge with a three-point win in the opening round of the Cork IHC at Ballynoe on Saturday.

An extra-time tally of five points proved just enough for Charleville to claim a 0-20 to 0-19 victory over Éire Óg in this enthralling Cork IHC at Mallow.

For years the smell of pipe tobacco acted as a kind of GPS that told you you were in the vicinity of M&P O’Sullivan, the cosy tobacco shop on Academy St in Cork City.

THE benefits of sheer bloody-minded hard work were graphically illustrated to me last November when I tried to ride a bike over Torr Head.

TRY, try and try again goes the legend of Robert the Bruce, the persistence of a spider in his hideout cave at Rathlin Island persuading the Scottish lord to go back and have one last lash at gaining the throne, which of course he succeeded in doing.

BRYAN CULLEN yesterday became only the third All-Ireland winning captain since the turn of the last decade not to be selected as an All Star nomination.

DOG years. That’s what they are. The seasons when Kerry go without.

BEING asked to select the All Stars for the season, the day before the All-Ireland final is a dangerous business.

MICK FITZSIMONS is about to lurch from the ridiculous to the sublime.

DIDN’T see that coming. Few did. Jack O’Connor made a point after this win of saying the “experts didn’t give us much of a chance”. It wasn’t that. So much more was expected from Cork but it never materialised.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody said a cancerous tumour and multiple lesions in the body of his brother, Peter, disappeared after he administered to him photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment and other treatments.

FORMER Clare GP Paschal Carmody told a jury that he never promised 15-year-old Conor O’Sullivan a cure for his cancer.

HERE is a new song.

1. NEVER write a Kerry team off prematurely.

Kerry 0-14 Sligo 1-10

ONE of the country’s biggest motor dealerships has collapsed with the loss of up to 30 jobs.