The Cork footballers will enjoy a seven-week run-in to their Munster SFC semi-final on June 3.

Glen Rovers’ quest for a third Cork SHC title in a row will begin against Bride Rovers in the 2017 preliminary round.

Club championship fixtures in Cork and Kerry have been thrown into chaos due to the drawn Munster SFC final.

Youghal 2-6 Adrigole 0-6

Cork County Board favours the possible introduction of “a second competition” for weaker counties in the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship after their participation at provincial level has come to an end.

Cork football champions Ballincollig open the defence of their first title with a repeat of their opening fixture in this year’s competition.

Cork county senior football champions Castlehaven’s quest for a three-in-a-row will face a stiff challenge, after they were drawn against Carbery Rangers in last night’s fourth-round draw.

These are busy times for Conor Dorman.

Cork have made three changes for tomorrow night’s Munster U21FC semi-final with Limerick in Páirc Uí Rinn (7.30pm).

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has dismissed suggestions last Sunday’s defeat to Mayo was another example of a Kerry second-half fadeout.

Adrigole 0-20 Mayfield 1-17 (aet)

Following the six Cork county championship games at the weekend, the fourth-round ties and relegation play-offs are now decided in all but the SHC and IFC grades.

Cork defender Lorcan McLoughlin is hoping “common sense” prevails and Pat Horgan is cleared to face Kilkenny in the All-Ireland hurling quarter-final on Sunday week.

Even now, a decade on, amid the jagged bays and bleak hillsides of the Beara peninsula, John Lock O’Sullivan is remembered.

Budget cuts could end a long-running, prestigious music course that has produced top performers, such as Mick Flannery, and graduates who work in the entertainment industry worldwide.

Castletownbere 0-12 Adrigole 0-6

Éire Óg 1-12 Cill na Martra 1-09

Castletownbere 1-13 Glanworth 1-10

The future of a number of rural Garda stations in West Cork hangs in the balance as concern mounts over a second round of station closures.

A late Youghal resurgence, which saw them claw back a four-point deficit, ensured these will have to meet for a third time in the championship to decide who will progress to the semi-final.

Adrigole 1-14 Castletownbere 0-11

NEW Cork PRO Tracey Kennedy insists the fact she is the first female officer in the history of the Cork County Board should not be the focus of her election.

Bob Ryan is set to become the next chairman of the Cork County Board as he is the only candidate nominated for the position which becomes vacant at Convention in December.

THEY have lived in the shadows for long enough, being sandwiched between bustling towns with rich football traditions in Listowel and Abbeyfeale.

CASTLETOWNBERE cruised to a comfortable victory over local rivals Adrigole in this Cork IFC fourth round clash at Cahermore yesterday.

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has made three changes for tomorrow night’s Munster MFC semi-final against Clare in Ennis from the team that previously defeated the Banner outfit in the first round last month.

REIGNING Cork senior football champions Nemo Rangers will begin the defence of their title on May 7 with a first round tie against Ballincollig in Ovens.

THE draw for the 2011 Cork senior football championship, which pairs champions Nemo Rangers with Ballincollig, threw up two interesting west Cork derbies, featuring Ilen Rovers and Carbery Rangers, and O’Donovan Rossa against Clonakilty.

For the once hurling-centric Éire Óg club, Sunday’s football finals – and the appearance of Daniel Goulding, Ciaran Sheehan and exciting minor Kevin Hallissey – offer a global platform to the strides the club has made with the big ball. Fintan O’Toole visited the Ovens-based club

ROBERT O’MAHONY’S involvement with the Cork in Saturday’s All-Ireland JFC semi-final against Louth has forced the postponement of this weekend’s Evening Echo Cork SHC quarter-final between St Finbarr’s against Erin’s Own.

KEVIN JER O’SULLIVAN was the star of the show as Adrigole powered through to the semi-final of the Evening Echo IFC after a 10-point win over Kildorrery.

CALLED after a quiet west Cork village, the semi-detached Cork home also called Adrigole shares a sort of quiet setting, albeit in a suburban location.

CHAMPIONS Sarsfields have been drawn against Castlelyons in next year’s Cork SHC, while four-in-a-row football winners Nemo Rangers renew rivalry with Ballincollig.

ONE hundred miles west of Cork city in beautiful Cahermore, two of Beara’s great rivals fought themselves to a standstill for the right to meet Kildorrery in the IFC semi-final.

HUNDREDS of people in West Cork were forced to boil their water yesterday after dead animals were found rotting in the river that supplies water to their town.

Galway 2-11 Cork 2-14