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Munster Junior Club Hurling Final Saint Mary’s v Russell Rovers (Sunday, December 8, Mallow at 1pm) If finals are reserved for the best sides in a competition, then it is certainly true of this year’s Munster Junior Club Hurling Final between Waterford champions Saint Mary’s and Cork side Russell Rovers when they clash at Mallow on Sunday [...]

Munster Intermediate Club Hurling Final Fr. O’Neill’s 2-15 Ballysaggart 0-17 County Champions Ballysaggart had to settle for second best at Fraher Field on Sunday afternoon last as they went under to a strong Fr. O’Neill’s side. The East Cork team were coached up to this year by former Ballysaggart and Waterford Hurler Pat Bennett and they had Lismore [...]

Ballygunner 1-11 Borris-Ileigh (Tipperary) 1-12 Brian Flannery Reports Tipperary champions Borris-Ileigh caused a major shock when they defeated reigning champions Ballygunner by a single point in the Munster club senior hurling final.Two late points from All-Ireland medal winner and current All-Star Brendan Maher was enough to see Borris-Ileigh earn their first title in thirty-three years. Ballygunner were the hottest [...]

Munster Senior Club Hurling Final For only the fourth time in the 55-year history of the Munster Senior Club Hurling Championship teams from Waterford and Tipperary meet in the final this coming Sunday when holders Ballygunner take on Borris-Ileigh. The Tipperary champions recently won their first county championship since 1986, and only a seventh in the club’s [...]

Munster Club Senior Hurling Semi-Final Ballygunner 0-17 Patrickswell 0-09 Brian Flannery Reports Waterford and reigning Munster champions Ballygunner have qualified for their third successive Munster club hurling final after a comprehensive eight-points victory over Patrickswell at Walsh Park.The home side dominated this affair for all bar a ten-minute period before to the break to keep their two in [...]

Munster Club Intermediate Hurling Championship Quarter-Final Ballysaggart (Waterford) 2-14 Causeway (Kerry) 0-15 Jordan Norris Reports Any myths surrounding the standard of hurling in Kerry as well as intermediate level were quickly dispelled, as Ballysaggart and Causeway contested a classic at Fraher Field on Sunday. The Kerry champions, who had seen off the heavily fancied Lixnaw in the county final [...]

Ballygunner 1-21 Sixmilebridge 0-12 Brian Flannery Reports Reigning Munster club champions Ballygunner handed their hosts Sixmilebridge a 12-point thumping in the opening round of this season’s campaign.A goal in first half injury time from former Brighton and Hove Albion soccer player Dessie Hutchinson and another sparkling display from Pauric Mahony helped guide Darragh O’Sullivan’s charges to victory in [...]

County Junior ‘B’ Hurling Final Erin’s Own 2-11 An Rinn 0-17 Noel Browne Reports Erin’s Own and An Rinn will replay their County (B) Junior Hurling final after the sides played out an exciting draw at Walsh Park on Sunday last. A Kevin O’Neill goal in the last of the three minutes of injury time gave Erin’s Own [...]

What’s your proudest day in sport? “Last weekend, the county final. It was unbelievable, something you’ve thought about for a long time. Especially when it was out of my hands to not be there (in the past due to playing soccer) and to see it and hear it and especially the way the game went. They [...]