While Cork’s victory on Saturday may not have come as a surprise the gulf in class certainly was. Cork produced their best display of the year to add to the evidence that they are heading in the right direction.

Former All-Ireland winners John Cleary and Tony Davis believe Cork have nothing to lose heading into this year’s Super 8s on the back of a comprehensive victory over Laois.

Martin Brennan was the toast of Fermoy as he landed an injury-time winner to secure victory over Castlehaven at Brinny yesterday.

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Just as they did in 1990 and 1991, St Finbarr’s and Duhallow, of course, will contest the Cork SFC final, at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Castlehaven and Duhallow must do it all over again after extra-time failed to separate them in an epic semi-final replay played in Páirc Uí Rinn last night. Duhallow had looked to have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when Knocknagree’s Anthony O’Connor goaled in the 82nd minute to give his side a 2-15 to 1-17 lead.

A “rate war” is heating up as Bank of Ireland has become the latest bank to cut its mortgage rates.

Mortgage campaigner David Hall is hoping to replicate the buy-and-rent back deal he has done with AIB with the State’s other major homeloan providers.

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The dynamic of their relationship has changed. The pendulum has moved back up the N71.

AIB said it’s delivering in cutting mortgage rates and was confident its provisioning for bad loans and its accounts were up to scratch after a whistleblower approached regulators.

The plug has been pulled on an epic round-Ireland powerboat race which was due to start in Cork Harbour in just over three weeks.

Update: CEO of the Irish Brokers Association Ciaran Phelan said the AIB cut was welcome, but still very high by European standards.

Cork SFC - Castlehaven 0-14 Clonakilty 0-13: Celebratory team photos are rare enough after first round clashes, but the Castlehaven lads had no problem posing for the one supporter who managed to meander her way through the several high-vis jackets guarding the entry to the pitch at full-time on Saturday evening.

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Valley Rovers are the early leaders in the Rochestown Park Hotel FL Division 1 after securing their second successive win when seeing off St Finbarr’s on Friday night.

Nemo Rangers midfielder David Niblock says his side must repeat the defensive efforts of last week if they are to beat Castlehaven in Sunday’s Cork SFC final replay in Páirc Uí Rinn (3.30pm).

Steven O’Brien reckoned the Nemo Rangers performance rated around 6/10.

CASTLEHAVEN 0-10

Castlehaven 1-13 O’Donovan Rossa 1-10: Few clubs have mirrored the journey Castlehaven have made since their breakthrough senior title in 1989. The tiny parish with the big heart has reached another county final – this generation’s fourth in five seasons – and, it seems, their appetite for success remains undiminished.

Castlehaven are through to a fourth county final in five seasons after overcoming near-neighbours, O’Donovan Rossa, in an exciting semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

More than 20 years later, the 1994 Cork SFC final between Castlehaven and O’Donovan Rossa remains steeped in local lore.

Castlehaven 1-14 Ballincollig 1-11 (Cork SFC quarter-final): Expectations were high ahead of this meeting of the last two Cork SFC champions, but Castlehaven and Ballincollig went a long way towards delivering in Dunmanway on Saturday night.

A mouth-watering West Cork derby awaits in the semi-final of the Cork SFC after Castlehaven dethroned Ballincollig in one of three quarter-finals played this weekend.

Castlehaven 1-14 St Finbarr’s 1-10 (Cork SFC Round 4): Castlehaven returned to the scene of last year’s championship humiliation but, looking renewed and refocused, the west Cork men displayed their innate hunger for battle to overcome a gutsy St. Finbarr’s in an entertaining Cork SFC clash on Saturday.

Major lenders have been urged to reduce their mortgage interest rates, after one of the country’s largest banks dropped its borrowing costs for homeowners.

Former Irish Rugby International Ronan O’Gara visited Haiti with Irish charity Haven in mid-June. 

Former Irish rugby star Ronan O’ Gara will leave for Haiti on June 14 to visit areas which benefit from the Haven charity.

The GAA community in Castlehaven and Cork has been left shocked and saddened by the tragic death of Michael Burns, a member of the 1989 All-Ireland SFC-winning panel.

Tánaiste Joan Burton has warned banks who refused to lower variable mortgage rates that they will be targeted by Government in the next budget.

AIB will look at reducing its variable interest rate for mortgage customers in June, its chief executive has said.

The country’s two pillar banks have been accused of basing their recovery on the back of hard-pressed mortgage customers in what has been termed a “blatant rip-off”.

Ulster Bank is to seek to grow its share in the mortgage market by offering customers €1,500 towards their legal fees.