Ryan Cup Roundup

Chris Joyce is following an illustrious band in the number six jersey.

Champions UCC are within an hour of retaining their Fitzgibbon Cup title after a comprehensive defeat of UCD in sun-splashed Carnmore yesterday, a powerful second half enough to defeat Nicky English’s charges.

Paul Honohan has become the latest Cork footballer to suffer a knee injury.

KERRY captain Colm Cooper has allayed fears that he will need to go under the knife to cure a troublesome ankle injury.

A TOP Limerick club official last night launched a blistering attack on Munster Council chairman Seán Walsh.

A TOP Munster Council official told a National Sports Conference in Limerick yesterday that the GAA may have to change its club structure to meet the challenge of increased urbanisation.

CORK’S John Gardiner hasadmitted that the immediate future for senior hurling success in the county is looking gloomy.

Cork 8-22 North Monastery selection 0-8

NEW Cork hurling captain Shane O’Neill insists there’s sufficient young talent in the county to fill the vacancy left by Sean Óg Ó hAilpín.

COMMUTER traffic was choked yesterday as stretched local authorities struggled to cope with the big freeze.

THERE’S a book going to hit your shelves in a few weeks’ time, ‘Unlimited Heartbreak’, by Henry Martin — it should be made compulsory reading for every Limerick hurling supporter.

LAST year Denis Walsh was a spectator in Páirc Uí Chaoimh as Tipperary broke an 85-year hoodoo by seeing off Cork in the Munster championship.

GER CUNNINGHAM is an early favourite to replace Gerald McCarthy as Cork hurling manager.

I AM disgusted at the discriminatory manner in which Limerick City Council is treating the GAA in Limerick city.

IT COMES from a Greta Garbo film. I can’t remember what it’s called, or even the context, but at one stage, in a moment of high drama, Garbo herself screams: “Bombs may fall . . . civilisations may crumble . . . but give us our moment!”

Pat McGrath of Waterford (father of current stars Ken and Eoin) and Johnny Crowley of Cork, five-times All-Ireland winner, met many times on the field of play. They were reunited again this week ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final between Cork and Waterford, in the company of Diarmuid O’Flynn.

THE Féile na nGael festival of hurling is ready to roll again in Cork this year - it was on Leeside last season as part of the Capital of Culture year - with teams from all 32 counties as well as London and Warwickshire taking part.

JOHN GARDINER is brisk in his appraisal of Cork's season so far. It's what you expect from a man whose wristy, accurate clearances provide the basis for many of his teammates' attacks - a quick delivery, sharp and to the point.

Shannon CCS 1-15 St Joseph’s, Borrisoleigh 1-9