Former Cork football manager Conor Counihan says the Rebels face a “tough challenge” this weekend in their Munster SFC opener against Tipperary.

Kerry midfielder David Moran has insisted their experienced players still have plenty to offer and shouldn’t be dumped in the rush to blood new talent.

The Cork football team to face Tipperary in Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final contains two championship debutants.

One of the many pleasing aspects for Kerry supporters ahead of the replay against Cork last Saturday was that, win or lose, it offered their team another chance to iron out the kinks in their game against top quality opposition.

James O’Donoghue has rubbished claims that the Kerry footballers attempt to influence referees during games, describing the articles which carried the allegation as "absolutely horrendous".

The last time I can recall a match like we had in Killarney on Saturday night was the ‘rain game’ in 2008 between Kerry and Galway in the big house in Dublin.

The Munster Council will easily break the €4m mark in gate receipts as they expect attendance figures to be up by at least 20% on the 2014 figures.

RTÉ GAA pundit Martin Carney has defended his decision to award Kerry’s James O’Donoghue the man of the match award in Saturday’s Munster SFC final replay victory over Cork.

The question posed all week was which team would learn most from the drawn Munster final. Without doubt, it was Kerry, who managed to right most of the wrongs of the previous meeting.

Watching the football over the weekend, the old Depeche Mode song and lyric kept making its way into the jukebox in our head: "It’s just a Question of Time." It started in Killarney, with...

Our exchange of salutations with Conor McCarthy in Killarney on Saturday was a brief one. 

Kerry 1-11 Cork 1-6: Enough. That just about summed up this Kerry victory.

They mightn’t know it but Brian Cuthbert and Jimmy Barry-Murphy are following similar journeys, following paths they hardly envisaged when they became managers of Cork’s football and hurling teams but ones borne of necessity more so than design.

Outside observers might have been surprised by Cork’s performance last Sunday week. The insiders weren’t. 

It is by a distance the most frequent face-off of the new millennium, with 26 championship clashes already since Cork partied like it’s 1999. Kieran Shannon has crunched the numbers from all those games, observed the trends — and how both camps might try to buck them this evening.

Eoghan Cormican:

There are so many beguiling variables feeding into the Munster final replay equation that it is difficult to know where to start.

Before the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the All Blacks did an exercise with control circles called The Attention Seeker. Two circles were drawn on a white board, one titled ‘Can Control’ and another titled ‘Can’t Control’.

Cork selector Don Davis says the Leesiders’ performance in the drawn Munster final was no surprise, given how well they’d prepared.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has displayed his bold streak once again by altering more than a quarter of his Kerry team for Saturday’s Munster football final replay with Cork.

Cork manager Brian Cuthbert has selected the same starting 15 that began the Munster SFC final drawn encounter for Saturday's replay.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice insists too much is being made of his selection policy.

Cork midfielder Alan O’Connor has dismissed former Kerry player Darragh Ó Sé’s description of him as a ‘bully’.

Billy Morgan has warned Brian Cuthbert’s players not to buy into “Kerry propaganda” ahead of Saturday’s Munster final replay.

Before getting into how both Cork and Kerry will be better for last Sunday, let’s start by acknowledging and appreciating that Cork-Kerry itself has hardly been better than last Sunday.

Gaelic football pundit Joe Brolly could be in more hot water after his comments about referee Pádraig Hughes on Sunday.

Over the coming days both the Cork and Kerry management teams will search for the improvements which could make all the difference in Saturday week’s Munster final replay in Killarney.

The Big Interview: Seven years on from making his debut for Cork, Colm O’Neill is set for another first start tomorrow when he lines out against Kerry in Killarney. After his much-documented hat-trick of cruciate injuries, no player has embodied the virtue of patience more than the Ballyclough clubman but as O’Neill explains, the demands of modern Gaelic football call for even more fortitude from an inside forward

It’s a measure of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s standing in Kerry that the decision to relegate Colm Cooper to the bench today was met if not with indifference then with a rueful sense of acceptance.

When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, it marked the culmination of a $24 billion NASA space program. 

It’s either the worst view of the field or the best.

Former Kerry forward Sean O’Sullivan has commended Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s consistency after dropping Colm Cooper and Anthony Maher among five changes for tomorrow’s Munster final.

Brian Hurley doesn’t share the general view that Cork were caught on the hop by Kerry in last year’s Munster final. The Rebel attacker is more inclined to see that game as a matter of Cork not performing on the day.

The next time Tomás Ó Sé meets Killian Young, he will require an ice-breaker. Should Cork break their 20-year Killarney duck, he needn’t come near his former team-mate at all.

It might take more than a history lesson to beat Kerry but Brian Cuthbert need only look back on the past four seasons to see where Cork have lost to them: first halves.

Last year, I was out of the country for the Munster final.

You hit Don Davis with an opening question about what he expects from Kerry on Sunday and he volleys it straight back. "Ye’re long enough writing it and I’m long enough playing football to know that Kerry can come with whatever they want to come with," says the Cork football selector.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has blamed pundits for attempting to paint Kerry as a cynical team.

Kerry gold has essentially ruled the southern provincial roost since '95.

An old religion teacher of ours sure knew how to make an introduction. 

Cork football selector Ronan McCarthy responded last night to criticism from former Kerry star Tomás Ó Sé and former Cork footballer James Masters, saying that the Rebel players and management had not allowed recent comments to become a distraction as they prepare for the Munster final against Kerry on Sunday week.

Jack O’Connor is busy preparing the Kerry minor squad for a Munster final meeting with Tipperary on July 5, but while he fancies Kerry to win the senior final against Cork, he believes that it will be a lot closer than some pundits think.

We are used, now, to dealing with complex matters of identity. We are not easily shocked.

The Munster Council have explained an extraordinary walk-up crowd compelled them to postpone the throw-in time of last Sunday’s Kerry-Tipperary Munster SFC semi-final in Thurles.