Event: Seán Óg Murphy Cup

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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The numbers game: Breaking down Imokilly’s Cork hurling dominance

Eoghan Cormican in preview box The three-in-a-row has become a rare commodity in the Cork Senior Hurling Championship.

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Seamus Harnedy: ‘We wanted to show everyone 2017 wasn’t a once-off’

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Séamus Harnedy: Imokilly spirit forged in tightest battles

Great expectations and grand designs ahead of Cork campaign

Seamus Harnedy and Jamie Barron 13/8/2017

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Seamus Harnedy: Why players have to move beyond idea of ‘first 15’

Blackrock v Imokelly - Cork County Senior Hurling Championship Final

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Imokilly becomes the joy division

Blackrock's young guns aim to take final step

At 23, Blackrock’s Stephen Murphy is young as captains go, but he can already call upon a wealth of winning experience in green and gold, a record he hopes to extend in Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.

Thu, 19 Oct, 2017

Douglas shoot down rumours former Cork hurler Cian McCarthy was poached

Douglas hurling manager Willie Coveney would like to set the record straight.

Sat, 06 May, 2017

Spirit of Glen Rovers adds lustre to rich and special tradition

Glen Rovers 0-19 Erin’s Own 2-11: Acentury ago, Glen Rovers GAA club was formed in Blackpool. When the club applied to register, the GAA official voiced his ignorance. He was told he’d hear of the Glen soon enough.

Mon, 10 Oct, 2016

Tomás Mulcahy: ‘It’s important for Cork hurling to have a good game tomorrow’

The biggest day in the Cork GAA calendar retains its lustre. The crowds may not be as big, and the venue is not at the end of that long leafy stroll down the Marina, but the prize remains the same.

Sat, 08 Oct, 2016

Glen Rovers' Graham Callanan: ‘Finals are for winning, our days of being happy to get there are gone’

In a couple of sentences, Glen Rovers captain Graham Callanan illustrates how, on one hand, 2016 is a completely new experience and, on the other, the mission remains exactly the same.

Thu, 06 Oct, 2016

Martin Bowen: Erin’s Own won’t be making up numbers

After Midleton kicked down the door to end East Cork’s wait for the Cork senior hurling title, Erin’s Own were the next through.

Fri, 23 Sep, 2016

Glen Rovers’ success bridges nations and generations

A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Fr Pat Barry ahead of the Cork senior hurling final. He wasn’t ecumenical about the game and he didn’t try to be, as befitted a former Glen Rovers county-winning captain, but the conversation roved away from sport when he leaned on a career largely spent in Africa.

Mon, 19 Oct, 2015

Fr Pat Barry: The day Frank Murphy ordained I should play Munster final

As part of his preparation for religious life, Fr Pat Barry had to serve as a deacon in a parish: six months’ worth of pastoral experience ahead of his ordination, back in 1976. He was assigned to a parish on Canvey Island in Essex.

Sun, 11 Oct, 2015

Gallant Glen Rovers deserve their shot at final redemption

Glen Rovers 0-18 Midleton 1-12: The last time Glen Rovers reached consecutive Cork SHC finals was at the end of the 1980s, when a loss in ’88 to St Finbarr’s was followed in ’89 with victory over Sarsfields.

Mon, 28 Sep, 2015

Glen Rovers shoulder the city’s hopes

Emerging from the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel for their county quarter-final clash last September, Glen Rovers boss Richie Kelleher broke away from his squad to offer congratulations to the Na Piarsaigh management.

Sat, 26 Sep, 2015

Duhallow hard work reaping rewards

It’s been nine years since Duhallow advanced from the divisions and colleges section of the Cork SHC to the last 16 of the championship proper.

Fri, 21 Aug, 2015

Kelly and Kearney land top awards

Ballincollig’s Patrick Kelly and Daniel Kearney of Sarsfields were the big winners at last night’s Reardens Cork GAA club All Star awards.

Tue, 11 Nov, 2014

Victory imperative for Glen, says Kelleher

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher says victory is imperative in Sunday’s Cork hurling decider to save the club from the downward spiral of the last quarter century.

Thu, 09 Oct, 2014

Super Sars now eye back-to-back titles

Sarsfields 0-25 Ballymartle 1-12

Mon, 21 Oct, 2013

Hunger not an issue for title-chasing Erin’s Own

When Erin’s Own won a second consecutive county SHC title in 2007, it had the air of a legacy being established.

Sat, 01 Jun, 2013

Veteran Barry hails team leaders

After enduring a famine between 1957 and 2008, Sarsfields are more than happy to embrace the feast they are currently experiencing with yesterday’s win following the victories of 2008 and ’10.

Mon, 08 Oct, 2012

Town will be troublesome but experience can swing it for Sars

It is a fourth final in five years for Sarsfields, and a first-ever for Bishopstown, with the Riverstown club favourites with the bookmakers to win the Seán Óg Murphy Cup for the third time since 2008.

Sat, 06 Oct, 2012

The hard yards that paid off for Carrig

THE easy cliche about Sunday’s county final win by Carrigtwohill — so easy we’ve thrown it out a few times already — is that it offers a template to other clubs in Cork looking to achieve the same level of success.

Tue, 04 Oct, 2011

O’Connor flies flag for the Banner at Cork IT

IT is more than 150km from Tubber, the North Clare parish that skirts the border with Galway, from the epicentre of Cork GAA that is Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Yet few people will be making that journey this weekend.

Thu, 29 Sep, 2011

Little light shed on the bigger picture

EVERY county final exists on two levels.

Mon, 11 Oct, 2010

Fraggie getting used to the good times

THIRD county final in-a-row for Sarsfields’ Kieran ‘Fraggie’ Murphy this Sunday, against the Glen in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, but it never gets old, not for a guy who has known the bad days in the now-thriving east Cork club.

Fri, 08 Oct, 2010

Names change, the debate lives on

IT WAS county final weather in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday, and county final conditions.

Mon, 12 Oct, 2009

Sars likely to have too much, but Rovers will prove tough test

THEIR story should be the stuff of fairytale, a celebration of everything we have always held dear about the underdog since the time Goliath took one in the forehead from a lad with a slingshot.

Sat, 27 Sep, 2008

Erin’s Own captain takes a swing at media over criticism

ERIN’S OWN and Cork hurling captain Kieran Murphy lashed out at sections of the media yesterday during his victory speech after his side’s Cork SHC final victory.

Mon, 15 Oct, 2007

Midleton recover from poor start to pip Glen

Midleton 1-13 Glen Rovers 0-14

Mon, 21 Jul, 2003