2010 All-Ireland SFC winning midfielder Alan O'Connor has decided to end his involvement with the Cork senior footballers.

Michael Shields has been appointed captain of the Cork footballers.

Australian Rules outfit Carlton Blues have officially announced the signing of Cork's Ciaran Sheehan, boosting the Irish ranks at the Melbourne club to three players.

Cork star Daniel Goulding has no doubts regarding the ability of club and county team-mate Ciarán Sheehan to succeed in the AFL.

Ciarán Sheehan has described his move to AFL outfit Carlton Blues as an opportunity he couldn’t turn down.

Kerry pair Eoin Brosnan and Jonathan Lyne are unlikely to be fully fit in time for Kerry’s Munster SFC quarter-final clash with Tipperary at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday (2pm).

Donie Kingston will start for Laois in Sunday's Leinster SFC first round match against Louth at O'Moore Park (throw-in 3pm).

After the infamous spat between Reb Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber we have decided to look at a few incidents where team-mates really don’t like each other.

Dublin starlet Ciaran Kilkenny has decided against pursuing a career in Australian Rules football, having returned home during the Christmas period.

The 2013 Munster SFC draw next Thursday will be an open one. Provincial council chairman Sean Walsh confirmed there was “only some appetite” to seed the competition.

Ciaran Kilkenny, one of Dublin GAA's best young talents, has agreed to switch codes and join Australian Rules football club Hawthorn.

Dublin U-21 forward Ciarán Kilkenny has been named the Cadbury Hero of the Future at an event which took place in Croke Park today.

Setanta Ó'hAilpín has ended all hope of a return to the Cork hurlers by signing for Aussie Rules side the Greater Western Sydney Giants.

Australian Rules club Carlton Blues are hoping to lure young Dublin starlet Ciaran Kilkenny Down Under with the offer of a two-year rookie contract.

SETANTA Ó hAILPÍN’S eight-year career with the Carlton Blues is over after the Corkman was axed from the AFL club yesterday.

Laois native Zach Tuohy has been selected to make his AFL debut for the Carlton Blues against Port Adelaide on Sunday, joining Cork's Setanta Ó hAilpín in the team.

CORK football star Ciarán Sheehan has denied rumours that he is set to join AFL club Carlton Blues in 2012.

Cork forward Ciaran Sheehan is set to join Australian Rules club Carlton Blues after next year's Championship campaign.

Australia made a winning start to their 2010 International Rules tour of Ireland, with a comprehensive 105-12 victory over a Cork Colleges selection under the Pairc Ui Rinn floodlights in Cork tonight.

OPEL GPA Footballer of the Month for September, Daniel Goulding, believes that Cork's All-Ireland winning manager Conor Counihan will be back patrolling the sidelines for the Rebels in 2011.

THE prospect of a clash of the two biggest Irish stars Down Under was wrecked yesterday when Setanta Ó hAilpín was unceremoniously dropped from the Carlton Blues line-up for this weekend’s AFL showdown with Sydney.

WHILE Championship football can be the most unforgiving of sporting arenas — just ask Joe Kernan this morning — Australian Rules isn’t too far behind its northern hemisphere cousin.

MICHAEL QUINN will become the fourth Irishman to feature in the Australian Rules top flight this season after the Longford man was named in the Essendon team for tomorrow’s trip to Adelaide.

HOT on the heels of the heroics of Sean Óg and Aisake for the Cork hurlers last weekend, the Australian arm of the O hAilpín sporting dynasty continues to make headlines in the AFL.

CORK’S hurling All Star Seán Óg O hAilpín is adamant inter-county GAA players should be paid for performing at the highest level and for “entertaining hundreds of thousands of people”.

SETANTA O hAilpín’s red-hot start to the new Aussie Rules season continued unabated yesterday, but it wasn’t enough to give him victory in his grudge match with bad boy Brendan Fevola.

IT COULDN’T have been more fitting as an Aussie Rules season that shapes up to have a greater Irish influence than ever before, kicked off last night with one of our exports providing the opening night fireworks.

THE year might have ended in disappointment for Cork, but the long-term prognosis is that football in the county has rarely been healthier.

FORMER Young Hurler of the Year, Setanta Ó hAilpín, has expressed a desire to play for Cork again when his career in the AFL has ended.

Setanta Ó hAilpín's Australian Rules career is in doubt after he was suspended for fighting with his Carlton Blues team-mate Cameron Cloke at training.

Corkman Aisake Ó hAilpín is one of six players who have been released by AFL club Carlton Blues.

ALTHOUGH it ended in defeat, Pearce Hanley will have good cause to remember his AFL debut as he departed for home with the praise of Brisbane Lions coach Leigh Matthews ringing loudly in his ears.

Michael Shields, right corner-back in the Cork team that lost last year's All-Ireland SFC final, could be back in county colours next month after his surprise return from Australia.

Brendan Quigley will continue to line out for Timahoe and Laois next year after Australian Rules club Carlton Blues missed out on signing the talented 21-year-old as an international rookie.

Cork footballer Michael Shields is to pursue a career in Australian Rules after officially signing for AFL Premiership outfit Carlton Blues.

Aussie Rules football star Brendan Fevola was tonight cautioned by gardaí over an assault on a barman in Galway.

The Australian International Rules player accused of assaulting a bar man in Galway last month is back in the country.

FEARS that AFL clubs are to step up their recruitment drive in Ireland have been calmed by Brisbane Lions coach Matthews who claimed yesterday that the club has no immediate plans to snap up more promising young Gaelic footballers.

Setanta O'hAilpin has been given a vote of confidence by Carlton Blues assistant coach Tony Elshaugh ahead of the new Aussie Rules season.

Carlton Blues coach Denis Pagan is getting a glimpse at what might have been this week as Cork hurler Seán Óg Ó hAilpín trains with his Aussie Rules-playing brothers Down Under.

Cork's All-Ireland winning captain Seán Óg Ó hAilpín has thrown his weight behind efforts to alter the International Rules Series' controversial red card rule.

Laois youngsters Colm Begley and Brendan Quigley have both signed two-year rookie contracts with Aussie Rules club Brisbane Lions.

TYRONE footballer Seán Cavanagh is considering a contract offer from AFL club, the Brisbane Lions.

SIX years after taking up Australian Rules Football, Kerry native Tadhg Kennelly will play in the sport's biggest day - the AFL Grand Final.