Doonbeg 0-15   Kilkee 1-9 (AET) UNTIL the 61st minute of this Round 2 championship fixture, the bizarre throw-in time had been the primary talking point. Pat Cosgrove threw in the ball at 5pm in Quilty, which was around the time that Cork v Dublin was concluding in Croke Park. That turned out to be a reasonable example of how to play hurling, which wouldn’t have encouraged people to swap their television sets for St Mary’s Park in Quilty. With Doonbeg 0-9 to 0-6 ahead, a minute into injury time, this neighbourly joust was about to explode. “I knew something was going to happen. I could just feel it. I knew when David Russell made a run from midfield that anything could happen,” Doonbeg manager, Kieran O’Neill commented wryly afterwards. How right he was. A Micheál Keane delivery, into the pocket of space in front of the Doonbeg goal, was met with a Kevin Larkin flick, aided by Russell. The …

O’Curry’s 1-7   Shannon Gaels 0-7 A MICHAEL Carmody goal, 12 minutes into the second half, secured a replay win for O’Curry’s and a place in Round 2 against Ennistymon on Saturday in Quilty.

A Clarecastle mother says she is on the verge of a breakdown after her 13-year-old son was subjected to three suspicious advances from a male “stalker” within the last month.

Kildysart 1-11   Kilmurry-Ibrickane 0-4 Kildysart bounced back into contention for a place in the knock out stage of the intermediate football championship when they defeated Kilmurry-Ibrickane’s second string at Cooraclare on Sunday.

THE new Ennis National School at Ashline is complete and the building will be officially handed over to the board of management next week.

  KILDYSART Community School principal, Marian Coughlan-Flynn was particularly pleased with her Leaving Certificate pupils’ maths results this week. Pupils who sat the higher level maths paper this year were awarded 25 extra points. “Everybody passed. About 98% got a C or higher in honours maths,” the school principal confirmed. “What I’m hearing pupils saying is that they will get what they want. If the points jump hugely next Monday, maybe we will have problems. But if they stay in or around what they were last year, a lot of the pupils who have received their results will be happy. I have looking through the results and I think overall they should be pleased,” she added. Although Leaving Certificate pupils can access their results online, after 12noon, Mrs Coughlan-Flynn has found that the pupils mostly like to receive their results in person.“It’s still the same. People want to come, they want to meet their friends and they want to meet …

WOODSTOCK Golf Club will celebrate its 20th anniversary next month and the club received the perfect anniversary present on Monday, when it won its first ever Munster ladies pennant.

Ennistymon 1-7   Lissycasey 0-3 IN a low-scoring tie at Corofin on Sunday, Ennistymon managed a one-point victory over Lissycasey in the final of the Division 4 football league.