Cork Premier IHC: Ballyhea 1-25 Mallow 2-10

Kilbrin 0-16 Castlemartyr 0-15

Cork 1-20 Waterford 3-19

Cork 3-15 Clare 2-14

Reigning Munster and All-Ireland champions Tipperary can call upon just three starters from last year’s All-Ireland final replay win over Dublin as they begin their Munster MHC campaign with a quarter-final against Waterford at Walsh Park tonight (throw-in 7pm).

Kilmurry 0-07 Rockchapel 1-04

Kilmurry 2-12 Ballyclough 1-10

Blackwater CS 3-20 Charleville CBS 0-9

Kilmurry 0-09 Ballinhassig 1-03

Ballyhea 2-15 Mallow 0-20

Kilmurry 1-15 Iveleary 1-11

Ballinhassig stormed into the last four of the Premier IHC on Saturday night after a terrific four-point victory over Ballyhea in Mallow.

Ballyhea can approach their Premier IHC quarter-final with Ballinhassig in confident mood after eliminating Kilbrittain at Coachford on Saturday.

Clare’s ambitions to claim a third consecutive Munster minor hurling crown remain intact after they swept past Cork in last night’s play-off tie in Ennis to set up a semi-final date with Limerick on June 29.

Munster MHC champions Clare face a strong test from Cork in Cusack Park, Ennis this evening (7pm) in a backdoor play-off that will determine who faces Limerick in the Jun 29 semi-final.

There are two changes to the Cork side for tomorrow night’s Munster Minor Hurling Championship semi-final second play-off with Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis (7pm).

Cork bounced back from their opening night defeat Limerick to hammer Kerry in this Munster MHC play-off clash at Austin Stack park on Saturday.

Substitute Liam O’Sullivan was the scoring hero in the finale and wing-forward Ronan Lynch, still eligible for the U16 grade, was the scoring hero for the majority of the game as Limerick enjoyed a successful trip to Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night by claiming a victory over Cork in the opening round of the Munster MHC.

Disappointment tempered by relief, that was the reaction of former Kilkenny great Eddie Keher to the news yesterday that while Richie Power will miss Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A final, the injury he suffered playing for Carrickshock in Saturday’s club game against James Stephens isn’t as bad as first feared.

Tipperary 2-16 Cork 1-09

IT is make or break time for the minor hurlers of Cork and Tipperary in tomorrow’s Munster championship semi-final playoff in Thurles (3.30pm).

WATERFORD corner-back Eoin Murphy was released from hospital yesterday after fracturing his skull in a club match last Friday night.

CORK’S aspirations of winning this year’s Munster minor hurling championship remain intact, but Saturday night’s victory over Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh was not without anxiety.

THE Cork minor hurling selectors have made a number of changes ahead of tonight’s Munster Minor Hurling Championship semi-final play-off against Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 6.30pm).

ON an evening when news of the shock retirement of Andrew O’Shaughnessy made its way around the well-populated stand in the Gaelic Grounds at this Munster minor hurling quarter-final, could it be that Limerick hurling has already found a suitable replacement – perhaps even two or three?

CORK manager John Considine has called on six players from his minor hurling squad of last year for tomorrow night’s Munster MHC first round clash with Limerick in the Gaelic Grounds.

CHARLEVILLE CBS won this Harty Cup quarter-final tie at Clarina yesterday far more convincingly than the score line suggests.

DRAMA at the end of this cracking Harty Cup third round group game in Ballybrown yesterday, fortunes swaying first one way and then the other, a precious quarter-final berth at stake.

CHARLEVILLE CBS revived their Dr Harty Cup campaign with a merited success over Coláiste Chríost Rí in Mourneabbey yesterday and set up a crunch clash with St Caimin’s (Shannon) to decide who will gain the second quarter-final spot from Group B.

CHARLEVILLE CBS suffered a chastening experience on their return to the Dr Harty Cup as Nenagh CBS got their campaign off to a winning start at Ballybricken yesterday.

COURCEY ROVERS retained their intermediate status following a workmanlike victory over Delanys in the Evening Echo Cork Co IFC relegation play-off (first round) at Belgooly on Saturday.