Harty Cup Preview: St Flannan's looking to stop Thurles CBS winning run 

Over in Bansha, coming together is a Christians side with very few of their nine lives left and a Nenagh school bidding to reach the last four for the first time in seven years.

HARTY CUP: Mathew Fitzgerald, Castletroy College under pressure from Ian Williams, St Flannan's in the Comhairle Larbhunscoileanna na Mumhan TUS Corn an Artaigh in Meelick

The new school semester is only three days old. But for Harty Cup pupils from four of Munster’s finest hurling nurseries, they’ll find themselves thrown out of their favourite class by final bell this afternoon.

Bansha, Kilmallock, Mallow, and Meelick are the venues for Wednesday's Harty Cup quarter-final ties.