Pressure is mounting on University College Cork authorities to restrict the opening hours of its bars during Rag and Freshers Week.

A Sinn Féin TD has said there are lessons for everyone after one of the party’s youngest councillors returned safe after going missing for almost two weeks, citing stress due to college and constituency work.

Sinn Féin Cork City Councillor Stephen Cunningham, who sparked a widespread search after being reporting missing, has today thanked family and friends for their concern.

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Tipperary showed tremendous composure to finish strongly and book their place in a first ever Eirgrid All-Ireland U21FC final.

Laois u21s 2-10 Dublin u21s 2-21: When the dust settles on the 2015 season, Dessie Farrell and his Dublin U21 footballers might well look back on this one as the one that crowned them.

Stradbally 1-10 Ballinacourty 1-6

The uncertainty over the Cork events centre is set to drag on after senior city officials last night refused to answer questions on the status of the tender process.

He was ridiculed as the baby-faced candidate and dubbed the Confirmation Boy because of the photograph on his election posters.

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Labour’s Catherine Clancy, was the most high-profile casualty in the city’s local elections carnage as her party was annihilated.

By Eoin English

IT’S 20 years since Meath last won an All-Ireland minor football title but denizens of the county may find greater solace in their last final appearance, in 2002, when they were well beaten by a superb Derry team.

Dublin 3-12 Kerry 1-10

Dublin advanced to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland MFC following a facile 11-point victory over Monaghan at Páirc Esler, Newry last night.

Dublin claimed their 31st provincial title when overwhelming Meath in their Electric Ireland Leinster MFC final at Croke Park yesterday.

Dublin took off in the second half to book their place against Meath in the Leinster MFC final in convincing fashion.

Goals in either half from Conor McHugh and Robbie Gaughan helped Dublin account for 12-man Longford in their Leinster MFC quarter-final at Parnell Park on Saturday afternoon.

BALLINACOURTY dramatically dethroned title holders Stradbally in a tension-filled Waterford SFC final at Fraher Field, Dungarvan, yesterday.

LIMERICK senior football manager Maurice Horan has revealed that he will be without the services of Pádraig Browne and goalkeeper Conor Ranahan for the coming season.

STRADBALLY are through to meet Nemo Rangers in the semi-final of the AIB Munster club football championship following a deserved victory over Doonbeg in Fraher Field yesterday.

HISTORY was made in Waterford’s All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Offaly in Tullamore on Saturday as the Déise finished the game with an attack that included sons of both the county chairman and secretary.

TODAY John Quane will nudge his car onto the M8 motorway near Kilbeheny and begin a 208km trek from the south-east corner of Limerick.

London 0-9 Waterford 0-8

AFTER the disappointment of losing to arch rivals Nire a week earlier, Stradbally reinstated themselves as one of the favourites to lift the Waterford senior football championship title with a decisive 12-point victory over St Brendan’s at Leamybrien last night.

Gary Hurney and Liam Lawlor, two players who were recently called up to Justin McCarthy's injury-hit hurling panel, have been named in the Waterford side for Sunday's Munster SFC quarter-final meeting with Clare (Cusack Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

THE expected annihilation never materialised as Kerry struggled alarmingly to cope with Waterford’s vibrant challenge in the first round of the Bank of Ireland Munster SFC at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney, yesterday.

Kerry 0-16 Waterford 0-08

THE RACE to dislodge Ballygunner as Waterford senior hurling champions begins this weekend with four very attractive first round games.

Stradbally 0-6 Nire 0-6

STRADBALLY bid for their fifth consecutive Waterford SFC title at Fraher Field, Dungarvan tomorrow.

Seanie Buckley, Padraig Browne and Michael Crowley will make their first championship starts for Liam Kearns' Limerick in Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final meeting with All-Ireland champions Kerry at the Gaelic Grounds.

Kilmurry-Ibrickane (Clare) 0-9 Stradbally (Waterford) 0-9

KILMURRY/IBRICKANE hope to emulate the feat of fellow Clare club Doonbeg by winning tomorrow’s AIB Munster Club SFC title for the first time.

Bishopstown (Cork) 0-12 Stradbally (Waterford) 1-12

Stradbally 0-10 Ardmore 0-7

Stradbally 1-11 Tramore 0-8

WATERFORD County Board will make history tomorrow afternoon by hosting three county finals at Fraher Field, Dungarvan.