A strong, all-round performance from Duhallow in wet Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday evening, indicated their determination to get back to the Cork SFC final this year.

Just as they did in 1990 and 1991, St Finbarr’s and Duhallow, of course, will contest the Cork SFC final, at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

First of all, football was secondary in terms of significance as the teams huddled before the replay of the Cork SFC final on Sunday.

Nemo Rangers 4-12 St Finbarr’s 3-13: Cork football title No 20 has a nice, tidy ring to it, but the devil is in the detail.

You would imagine, tactically, Nemo Rangers’ management will detail Alan Cronin to man-mark St Finbarr’s Stephen Sherlock from the off next Sunday in the replay of the Cork SFC final.

Nemo Rangers midfielder David Niblock says his side must repeat the defensive efforts of last week if they are to beat Castlehaven in Sunday’s Cork SFC final replay in Páirc Uí Rinn (3.30pm).

Defeat for Nemo Rangers in tomorrow’s Cork SFC final and we may well have seen the last of the rangy midfielder in his favoured black and green.

Former Cork footballer Micheál ‘Haulie’ O’Sullivan believes John Cleary is the “best man” for the vacant Cork manager’s post.

Carbery Rangers manager Micheál O’Sullivan said the performance of referee James Bermingham had a "telling" impact on yesterday’s Cork SFC final.

Ballincollig 1-13 Carbery Rangers 1-10

When he was putting in top-class performances on a regular basis for Aston Villa and Ireland, Paul McGrath’s inability to train tended to attract wide-eyed wonder.

Castlehaven 1-15 Dromcollogher-Broadford 0-07

Shane Nolan can still hear the words manager James McCarthy whispered in his ear before being introduced as a 47th minute substitute in last Sunday’s Cork SFC final against Duhallow.

Castlehaven got the better of divisional side Duhallow in a scrappy Cork SFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh this afternoon, squeezing home by 1-7 to 0-9.

Ned English’s Duhallow team play Castlehaven in tomorrow’s Cork SFC final, but that’s only the starter’s gun when you chat to the man from North Cork. The ensuing conversation can stray anywhere.

Two players have attracted plenty of attention in the run-up to Sunday’s Cork SFC final: Donncha O’Connor, Duhallow’s attacking trump card, is well known, while Castlehaven’s Brian Hurley pocketed 1-6 in the semi-final win over Carbery Rangers.

Some weekends are more important than others.

Legendary Kerry boss Mick O’Dwyer is in contention to make a sensational return to football management with Clare.

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

FOR the first time since 2003, Castlehaven will contest a Cork SFC final, bridging that eight year gap in dazzling fashion at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night.

MICHAEL SHIELDS and Benny Coulter have been recalled to the Irish squad for tonight’s do-or-die second test in the international rules series, with Emmet Bolton and Niall McNamee making way.

THE natural order of club football matters on Leeside has been restored.

Ireland boss Anthony Tohill has finalised his squad for Saturday night’s International Rules First Test in the Gaelic Grounds by drafting in Kildare defender Emmett Bolton and Offaly attacker Niall McNamee for the clash against Australia.

IRELAND boss Anthony Tohill has finalised his squad for Saturday night’s International Rules First Test in the Gaelic Grounds by drafting in Kildare defender Emmett Bolton and Offaly attacker Niall McNamee for the clash against Australia.

Ireland manager Anthony Tohill has confirmed his squad for Saturday's opening International Rules Test against Australia at Limerick's Gaelic Grounds.

MICHAEL SHIELDS has been ruled out of Ireland’s plans for Saturday’s International Rules first test against Australia at the Gaelic Grounds due to his involvement in Sunday’s Cork SFC final.

MICHAEL SHIELDS insists he was confident Cork would solve their early season defensive woes and is convinced the experience of regular senior matches together will stand to their youthful backline as the year progresses.

GAA president Christy Cooney has defended the fee levied on the Ladies Football Association for the use of Croke Park last Sunday and rejected any suggestion that the figure extended into six figures.

CORK senior hurling boss Denis Walsh is on the lookout for a new trainer with Jerry Wallace not set to be involved in the inter-county setup for next season.

ARMAGH football was rocked last night after county senior manager Peter McDonnell brought an end to his two-year tenure in charge.

IT may have felt like a lonely role for Ronan McCarthy to fulfil after yesterday’s Cork SFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, but there was plenty who could empathise with his plight.

ON THE one hand we have familiarity, on the other there is novelty.

REMEMBER that superb English series about a family veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire, All Creatures Great And Small? Since returning to his home place in West Cork, that has been the life of Fachtna Collins for the past five years.

REMEMBER that superb English series about a family veterinary practice in rural Yorkshire, All Creatures Great And Small? Since returning to his home-place in west Cork, that has been the life of Fachtna Collins for the past five years.