DCU Saints 60
Neptune 69
National Event Hire Neptune continued their recent good league form with another win over DCU Saints at the weekend. DCU Saints were intent from the tip off to stop the powerful Juwann James by double and treble teaming the player but credit must go to the other Neptune players when they stepped up to share the scoring.

Cork 3-3
Dublin 1-12
Defending champions Cork lost out to Dublin in the Bord Gáis Energy Ladies National Football League for a third successive season as the Sky Blues won by three points in Fermoy on Sunday.

Allianz National Football League Division 1
Monaghan 3-12 Cork 3-13
Late points from Paul Kerrigan and substitute John Hayes saw Cork snatch the narrowest of victories over Monaghan in a high-scoring thriller in Scotstown last Sunday.

Former Cork City captain Dan Murray has said he would have liked to finish his career at the Leeside club but he finally lost patience with the constant uncertainty there. The most successful captain in the history of the club has signed a two-year contract with Shamrock Rovers.

Hello punters!
Our memory lane slot for this week turns its spotlight on Cheltenham past, and on the 1990 Gold Cup in particular, which was won by Nortons Coin at 100/1, in a race that could be described as incredible, by virtue of the fact that the unlikely hero came from a mundane racing background.

AIB Munster Club Hurling semi-final Sunday in Thurles @ 2.30 pm
Newtownshandrum v Ballyhale-Shamrocks
What a game to start the hurling season, the champions of Cork and Kilkenny on the famous Thurles sod for a place in the final on 'Paddy's Day' in Croke Park.

A massive project in underway to record the history of the GAA in Cork. Researchers are calling on GAA members from every club, parish and school in the county to contribute to The GAA Oral History Project, which is one of the biggest sporting history projects to be undertaken here. The project was commissioned by the GAA and is being carried out by a team based at Boston College-Ireland.

I travelled across Dublin last Saturday for the Irish Rugby International match with Italy. I hadn't been to a Rugby International match since the move from Lansdowne Road and I found the whole afternoon presented me with some rather interesting observations starting with the journey itself. Lansdowne Road is quite handy to the part of Dublin I have always lived in. Hence, I could always get the Good Lady to drop me but a few minutes walk from the stadium.

Waterford 1-9
UCC 0-11
UCC were unable to offer the perfect answer to their crushing defeat by LIT in the Fitzgibbon Cup last week but they did restore some pride in the Waterford Crystal Final last Sunday.

The start of spring heralds the beginning of many things and for sports fans it's no different. Just as temperatures rise outside they are sure to do the same inside stadia throughout the country as teams and championships are reborn. For those competitions already in operation, spring is the time when things get serious.