KILFEACLE have gone clear at the top of the First Division of the Heineken Munster Junior League and their clash with second place Bruff in two weeks time, looks like having a big bearing on the destination of this season’s title.

CORK HARLEQUINS today go in search of their first victory in the European Club Hockey Championships in Brussels, and in the process will be bidding to produce a favour for rivals, Cork Church of Ireland.

LISNAGARVEY hero Philip Stirling is obviously not one for sentiment. After all he scored a hat-trick of goals with a borrowed stick in the final of the Irish Senior Hockey Cup at Belfield on Saturday.

IRISH Senior Cup specialists, Lisnagarvey, are viewed as the biggest obstacle to the accomplishment of a little history today when two Cork teams attempt to negotiate the semi-finals and set-up hockey’s first ever all-Cork men’s cup final.

COLM MORIARTY (Athlone) and Justin Kehoe (Birr) have been selected to compete in the Lake Macquarie Amateur Championship and the NSW Medal and Amateur Championship in Australia early in the New Year.

Dunmurry member Darren Crowe, who was given his first Irish senior cap this week, is included in the Ulster Youths' team for the interprovincial championship at Athenry on September 25 to 27.