Tommy Quigley hugged his sons and team-mates Stephen and Shane as Thurles celebrated their first AIG Pierce Purcell Shield win for 18 years.

On a weekend of unbelievable tension, resilient Cork Golf Club brought off magnificent double in the Munster provincial finals staged on the Mahony’s Point course in Killarney.

A former boys international and a former member of the Munster Youths Inter Provincial team, Martin Poucher (Limerick) won the 36 hole Castletroy Senior Scratch Cup yesterday.