IT rained goals on Sarsfields at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday and it nearly cost them big time.

AFTER years of defeat in both hurling and football, Carrigaline finally came good at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday by winning the Cork IHC title for the first time with a 1-13 to 0-10 win over Bandon.

A John Paul Murphy point two minutes from time earned Seandun a deserved draw with CIT in this entertaining Evening Echo SHC first round tie at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

JOY for Newtownshandrum, heartbreak for Imokilly at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday, the Evening Echo Cork senior hurling champions surviving a searching quarter-final test from the East Cork divisional side (1-14 to 0-15), who might be celebrating victory but for two glaring misses at the end of a fabulous contest.

Midleton 0-12 Blackrock 0-10

HOLDERS Cork will field seven of the squad which trounced Limerick in last year’s provincial final in tomorrow night’s opening round of the ESB Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds (6.30).

James Stephens 1-18 Ballyhale Shamrocks 2-12

BRIDE ROVERS won the battle of the Rovers for Evening Echo Cork County SHC survival at Pairc Ui Rinn last night, the East Cork outfit beating city side Glen Rovers 3-15 to 1-13 to advance to the next round.

Kilkenny 6-28 Offaly 0-15

MENTION May 16, 2004 to Anthony Daly and he cringes.

KILKENNY coach Brian Cody has made two changes from the side that defeated Dublin in round one of the All-Ireland qualifiers for Sunday’s clash with Galway in the second round.

DJ Carey has been left out of the Kilkenny team for their Leinster hurling semi-final against Wexford this Sunday.

A SMOOTH enough passage for All-Ireland champions Newtownshandrum and an eight point victory for Blackrock were the highlights of a small permanent tsb Cork County SHC programme over the weekend.

TINY Killeagh sprung a huge surprise in Midleton yesterday as the permanent tsb Cork County SHC got into full swing with six opening round games.

DAVID HOEY, Sean McMahon and Diarmuid McMahon look set to make their first Allianz NHL appearances with Clare this season when the Bannermen take on Galway in a top-of-the-table clash at Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

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St Flannan’s 3-24 North Monastery3-2

Bride Rovers 1-15 Inniscarra 1-5

Midleton 1-13 Glen Rovers 0-14

WEXFORD skipper Paul Codd last night warned it’ll take at least two goals to down Kilkenny on Sunday.

Kilkenny 3-16

EOIN MURPHY and Peter Queally return to the Waterford team for Saturday’s Munster hurling championship semi-final replay against Limerick at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

Laois 2-22, Wicklow 0-10

NA PIARSAIGH young lions John Gardiner and Setanta Ó hAilpín have been given starting positions on the Cork team for Sunday's glamour

Kilkenny 2-22 Clare 1-13

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN, who recently announced he was quitting football to concentrate on hurling, will miss Cork’s Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park on Sunday because of a groin injury.

NA FIANNA will appeal the decision by the Dublin County Board to eject them from the county championship, following their use of six substitutes in their quarter-final against Raheny last weekend.

Following his victory in the Windscreen Centre Cork Forest Rally, Eugene Donnelly (Toyota Celica) is the new leader of the KBB Doors National Forest Championship.

London based Limerick driver, Ollie O’Donovan and his Cork co-driver, David Moynihan ran out comfortable winners of the Des Golden sponsored Cork Rallysprint at the Cork Showgrounds.