They outscored CBC nine points to one in the fourth quarter.

Christmas has come early for the grassroots GAA in Munster with over €1.3m allocated in this year's development grant scheme.

Cork GAA chiefs have published its club-by-club rankings table which will form the basis for new county championship structures from 2020 on.

There are more than a few examples of Cork clubs that have been escaped the clutches of junior hurling and then gone on to claim intermediate glory.

Last week, I listened with intent to a speaker who delivers his message precisely.

A Ben Nyhan point two minutes from time separated these two evenly-matched teams in the Dean Ryan Cup final (16.5 A hurling) at Kilmallock today. The sides were level on five occasions, with the result in doubt right up to the final whistle.

A Ben Nyhan point two minutes from time separated these two evenly matched teams in the Dean Ryan Cup final (16.5 A hurling) at Kilmallock

St Colman’s produced a great performance in Ballincollig to qualify for the Dean Ryan (U16.5 A hurling) final.

Earlier this year, clubs agreed that the teams who reached this year’s senior hurling and football championship quarter-finals (excluding divisions) would be guaranteed premier senior status for 2020

The boy and girl - both 14 - had been reported missing in the Fermoy area on Sunday, prompting a search by locally based gardaí, fire brigade, ambulance service and a Rescue 115 helicopter.

Located in the heart of one of the finest parts of the country for producing both national hunt and point-to-point winning racehorses, a large holding in East Cork is currently listed with Fermoy-based auctioneers Dick Barry & Son, and is sure to attract a good deal of interest from a wide range of farming interests.

A price drop should renew interest, says Tommy Barker.

Cork have opted to go with an unchanged side for Saturday evening’s Munster SFC final against Kerry in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7pm).

Mallow remain top of Division 2 of the RedFM Cork Hurling League as they made it seven wins from nine.

After paper-one left many English students 'beaming', paper-two provided a much more stern challenge.

Government inaction over a crumbling weir has led to the cancellation of one of the country's best-known rowing regattas and also a popular swimming race.

Cork have handed out three championship debuts for Saturday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Limerick in Páirc Uí Rinn.

The West Cork derby meeting of Carbery Rangers and Castlehaven is the stand-out tie in the second round of the Cork SFC following the draws at tonight’s county board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Kiskeam moved into second place in the Rochestown Park Hotel Division 1 FL as they enjoyed an impressive win away to Nemo Rangers.

Sarsfields moved to within two points of RedFM HL Division 1 leaders Bride Rovers – with two games in hand – after a comprehensive victory at home to Douglas on Saturday night.

There’s one change to the Cork minor hurling team for this Sunday’s Munster MHC round-robin clash against Limerick.

A Shane Aherne point in the 81st minute handed victory to Fermoy in this see-saw Cork PIHC first-round contest.

Watch back the Battle of the Gaeltacht clubs in Macroom - 3.45pm

For recent winners of the Cork Premier Intermediate Football Championship, consolidation at senior level wasn’t the priority it should have been.

I was driving to see a cow at Tommy’s recently. The call was to a cow down after calving and as he had already had a few cows that slipped in the yard and ended up in similar circumstances I was expecting to see yet another one when I arrived.

Avondale contested five finals from 2010 to 2014, losing the first one before going on to win the next four. However, only one Munster Senior League side in Cobh Wanderers have only reached the final since.

I watched the Irish rugby team against England and Scotland. I like watching rugby and had become accustomed to seeing Ireland play with a certain style and confidence.

Ronan McCarthy has included four league debutants for Cork's Division 2 opener against Fermanagh.

The Cork team to play Clare in the McGrath Cup Final on Saturday at 2pm, has been announced.

Now that the knockout phase of the 2018/19 edition of the Harty Cup has arrived, a familiar question is again posed: Is this the year a Cork school ends the county’s longest-running Harty famine?

Cork will have two schools in the last four of the Corn Uí Mhuirí after this evening's quarter-final draws threw up two all-Cork pairings.

St Colman’s College finished top of Group A in the Dr Harty Cup at Kilmallock yesterday completing three wins out of three and qualification for the quarter-final stage. However, it brought an end to the reign of champions Ardscoil Rís, with Nenagh CBS taking second place.

Goals from Ben Cooney and a brace from Bryan McLoughney saw Nenagh CBS secure a resounding 10-point victory over Cork’s Gaelcholaiste Mhuire an Mhainistir Thuaidh in Kilfinane.

Recently I was given a bulk milk sample from Paddy to send off to the laboratory for analysis.

In our glorious 2018 summer, when fodder availability became a serious issue, animals turned their attention to other available plants, shrubs and trees.

I got a phone call from Donal recently. He had a cow that he found dead out in the field. I went out to look at her and her surroundings.

A pouch under the jaw could be caused by a few things, like a malfunctioning heart, liver fluke, or a disease we call “timber tongue”.

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

Many years ago, when I was a young fellow, I decided to follow Leeds United.

Anglers and conservationists throughout Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford were joined by watersports clubs at the weekend to protest the damage to a salmon weir and the risks to migratory fish on the famed Blackwater River.

Debutant Ronan O’Toole is one of three changes on the Cork football side for Sunday’s final Allianz FL Division 2 clash with Roscommon in Dr Hyde Park (3pm).

Olivia Kelleher rounds up the start times for the parades in Cork and further afield. 

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

This Fermoy house was the water cooler moment of last week’s TV and our Peter Dowdall was behind the re-imagining of its gardens.