St Finbarr’s 1-17 Bishopstown 0-10: Accuracy and class helped St Finbarr’s to a comprehensive win over Bishopstown in yesterday’s Cork SHC Round 3 clash at Pairc Ui Rinn.

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Munster 31 Zebre 5

Ballymartle 4-19 St. Finbarr’s 1-20 (aet)

Glen Rovers 3-18 St. Finbarr’s 2-15

St Finbarr’s 0-10 Castlehaven 1-7

CIT 1-26 St Finbarr’s 1-12

St. Finbarr’s 0-13 Newcestown0-11

A GOAL by Alan Cronin deep in injury time gave county champions Nemo Rangers a dramatic victory over St Finbarr’s in the Red FM Division One league final at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

Munster A 13 Llanelli 15

JEREMY Manning, a player whose season has been ravaged by injury, demonstrated his potential with two smashing tries in Munster’s British & Irish Cup semi-final victory at Thomond Park on Saturday.

HAVING defeated Ulster twice this season in the A Interprovincial Championship, Munster will be fancied to complete the hat-trick as they take on the Ravens in the semi-final of the inaugural British & Irish Cup at Thomond Park this afternoon.

MUNSTER legend Anthony Foley is confident his young side will add further lustre to the province when his Munster A side takes on the Ulster Ravens in the first of a highly attractive double-header at Thomond Park on Saturday next (3.30pm).

IT’S a pity those who bemoan the demise of the club game weren’t in Dubarry Park on Saturday afternoon.

DOLPHIN’S dream of All-Ireland Cup glory was shattered at Musgrave Park on Saturday when Garryowen produced their best form of the season to secure a final berth against old rivals Cork Constitution.

THE gap at the bottom of AIB Division 1A widened and Garryowen took another step closer to hitting the panic button when they slumped to their fourth defeat of the campaign at Dooradoyle on Saturday.

GARRYOWEN ended a run of three defeats with victory over an understrength St Mary’s College in Saturday’s AIB All-Ireland Cup at Dooradoyle.

MUNSTER back-row forward Nick Williams faces at least six weeks out following knee surgery, but the Magners League champions will still have something to smile about for then new season.

Munster 19 Sale Sharks 17

CORK football continued on the rise at Pairc Ui Chaoimh last where the junior team picked up their third Munster title in five years with a convincing victory over Clare in the provincial final.

THE pace, skill and opportunism of winger Stephen Kelly and the quality of a pack who used the atrocious conditions to their advantage were crucial factors as Shannon qualified for another AIB League final at Coonagh on Saturday.

ST FINBARR’S are still on course to regain senior status following a four-point victory over Ballinora in the Evening Echo Premier IFC quarter-final at Pairc Uí Rinn last night.

IT SHOULD have been an Evening Echo Cork SHC double-header to savour, but neither the meeting of St Finbarr’s and Blackrock in the opener, nor the ensuing Glen Rovers and Na Piarsaigh clash at Páirc Ui Chaoimh lived up to expectation for the 5,000 plus crowd.

THERE was to be no hat-trick of victories for Bride Rovers over St. Finbarr’s in the Evening Echo Cork Co SHC at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last night where the Togher club survived a late scare before emerging winners by two points.

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.

Bride Rovers 2-13 St. Finbarr’s 0-9

Munster 8 Connacht 11

NEMO RANGERS advanced to the quarter-final of the Evening Echo Senior Football Championship by virtue of a 0-12 to 0-7 victory over arch rivals, St Finbarr’s, in what was at times an ill-tempered tie at Páirc Uí Rinn last evening.

INSPIRATIONAL substitute John Halbert smoothed Watergrasshill’s path to victory over Argideen Rangers in this Evening Echo Cork County Premier IHC opening round game in Passage on Saturday night.

AT half-time in this Evening Echo Cork Co SHC first round contest at splendid Fermoy on Saturday, the St. Finbarr’s selectors were seething. And with every justification.

OUTSIDERS Ballincollig produced the shock of the Evening Echo Cork SFC opening round at Ovens yesterday when defeating kingpins Nemo Rangers 3-4 to 1-7 to guarantee themselves senior status for at least another year.

St Finbarr’s 1-13 Bishopstown 0-11

Cork 1-8 Tipperary 0-5

St. Finbarr’s 2-14 Blackrock 1-13

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.

St. Finbarr’s 1-11 O’Donovan Rossa 1-11