Work is under way to refurbish and extend one of Cork’s oldest secondary schools — but it will still retain many historic features remembered by generations offormer schoolgirls.

There was a new start for first-year students but also for staff as a Cork school moved to a temporary home in a former hospital.

An Rinn and Brickey Rangers both claimed wins in Group 2 of the Waterford SFC to boost their prospects of qualifying for the quarter-finals.

The former Marymount hospice is to be given a new lease of life as an education campus, including a residential English language centre.

Don’t think Stradbally are making up the numbers when they make the long drive from Waterford to Clonakilty tomorrow.

While Stradbally were ecstatically celebrating a one-point Waterford SFC replay victory over The Nire last Saturday night, two of their longest serving players spent the night in the hospital and will miss next Sunday’s Munster meeting with Cork champions Castlehaven.

It may have been his 18th birthday on Saturday but any plans to celebrate that milestone were put on hold by Cathal Curran.

Blackwater CS (Lismore)0-11 Dungarvan CBS 0-8

GARDAÍ hope that new technology aimed at reducing the number of “boy racers” on the country’s roads will be in place by the early part of next year.

THE charismatic and hugely popular John Kiely is the new Waterford football manager. The genial Kilrossanty clubman (he is also chairman) was the first choice of the Waterford County Board to succeed Ardmore’s Billy Harty.

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