Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime...

Cork hurling great Diarmuid O’Sullivan believes his father Jerry has earned the right to run for the GAA Presidency after decades of rising up through the ranks.

How to feel your age part I: The Good Friday Agreement is a month older than Kyle Hayes.

There is just one rule Seán Óg Ó hAilpín applies to Cork-Tipperary matches: Worry about the wounded.

Bill Beckett’s memories of St Finbarrs’ opening round game of the 2017 Cork senior hurling championship are stamped in his memory.

Paul O’Donovan will be the next manager of the Nemo Rangers senior footballers, though his start date is as yet unknown.

It’s only been a week since he officially stepped down from his director of hurling post with Limerick’s underage academy, but Anthony Daly is never short of suitors and he’s already lending his weight to another cause.

John Allen feared he would be remembered for all the wrong reasons in taking off Brian Corcoran in the 2005 All-Ireland semi-final against Clare.

Blackrock take on St Finbarr’s tomorrow in the second round of the Cork senior hurling championship, but whereas 30 years ago that was a county final pairing, this season both clubs are struggling.

Brendan Cummins isn’t just an emerging coach with his work with the goalkeepers of Laois and Kerry; he’s also one of hurling’s younger and more insightful analysts.

THIS was the company he kept.

Waterford hurler Kevin Moran has hailed Seamus Prendergast as "one of the true greats" to wear the Déise jersey.

Cork SHC quarter-final: Sarsfields 3-20 St Finbarr’s 1-16

St Finbarr’s 3-12 Erin’s Own 1-9

Ronan Curran has backed the comments of Donal Óg Cusack, whose criticisms of the hurling structure in Cork were not well received by some former teammates.

Half backs are playing - and thinking - very differently to their predecessors.

Mutual consent.

Former Cork hurler Ronan Curran believes the county and Clare’s presence in next month’s All-Ireland final has proven the age profile of elite hurling has dropped dramatically.

Clare legend Ger O’Loughlin is in an unique position to assess the three counties still standing in the All-Ireland senior hurling championship race.

MUNSTER SHC FINAL:

Yesterday’s United Hunt Club’s point-to-point fixture at Bartlemy brought new meaning to the phrase marathon for there were no less than 11 races with proceedings concluding at 6.15pm, following a 1pm start.

Hard on the heels of Seán Óg Ó hAilpín’s decision to retire from inter-county hurling, comes the surprising news that his Na Piarsaigh teammate John Gardiner has been cut from the Cork training panel.

Catlehaven 0-12 St. Finbarr’s 0-09

Most of the headlines regarding last Sunday’s St Finbarr’s-Castlehaven SFC quarter-final centred around events in the aftermath of Jason Sexton’s late equaliser for the Barrs, when a brawl broke out.

St Finbarr’s 0-10 Castlehaven 1-7

CIT 1-26 St Finbarr’s 1-12

With 26 county senior championships wins between them, you can count on near city neighbours Nemo Rangers and St Finbarr’s producing pretty fierce rivalry.

For awhile there he’d become hurling’s great forgotten man.

A physical and hard-hitting game, that’s what Tipperary manager Declan Ryan expects against Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in the second Munster SHC semi-final on Sunday.

Former All-Ireland winning Clare captain and current Dublin hurling boss, Anthony Daly

Though they didn’t have it all their own way in the opening half, St Finbarr’s turned in an eye-catching second-half exhibition of point-taking to comfortably see off the challenge of Newmarket at Mallow on Saturday night.

Lorcan McLoughlin says Cork are “realistic” about their place in the hurling world, warning that they still have “a lot of work to do” ahead of this year’s championship.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy has paired league debutant Darren Sweetnam and Seán Óg Ó hAilpín together in midfield for Cork's opening Allianz Hurling League encounter with Waterford on Saturday night.

MICHAEL FITZGERALD can name the gang who helped drive Carrigtwohill to Sunday’s Cork SHC final against CIT.

CORK selector Ger Cunningham revealed new manager Jimmy Barry Murphy plans to hold talks over the next few weeks with the county’s longest-serving hurlers in an effort to get them to commit to the cause for the 2012 campaign.

Cork legend Ronan Curran on the highs and lows of a career in intercounty hurling

Cork centre-back Ronan Curran has announced his retirement from inter-county hurling.

THE announcement yesterday by Jerry O’Sullivan, chairman of the committee charged with appointing a Cork senior hurling manager, that Denis Walsh — who has held the position for the past two and a half seasons — will not be reappointed has taken many by surprise.

CORK centre-back Ronan Curran has announced his retirement frominter-county hurling.

Castlehaven 2-9 St Finbarr’s 1-7