There may be no Cork team on the main ladies football programme at Croke Park on Sunday, but the county will be well represented by an Aghada ‘Gaelic for mothers and others’ selection.

Cork claimed their first LGFA All-Ireland U14 Platinum title since 2013 at the expense of Galway in Banagher county Offaly this afternoon.

St Val’s will bid to win their fourth Cork SFC title — and a first for Cork senior star Brid Stack — this evening.

Nothing beats the thrill of playing and winning All-Ireland medals but Elaine Harte’s found the next best thing.

Doireann O’Sullivan’s three superb points in last September’s TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football final went a long way towards securing a sixth successive title for Cork.

Donegal boss Micheál Naughton has spoken about how football is helping him to cope following his brother’s recent death.

Captain Bryan Sheehan starts at right half-forward as one of two changes to the Kerry side for Sunday’s Allianz FL Division 1 final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 3.30pm).

The gates of Cusack Park could be reopened later this month to stage the third round of Clare SHC games.

When Róisin O’Sullivan held aloft the O’Connor Cup in March of 2012, UCC’s first in 22-years, the expectation was the Western Road nursery would enjoy a prolonged stay at the summit of third-level ladies football.

Cork star, Jennifer O’Leary has been announced as the winner of the Camogie Award for the 2014 Bord Gáis Energy Munster GAA Awards.

Five sets of sisters will be hoping to win the senior All-Ireland club title with Mourneabbey on Sunday.

As far as Briege Corkery was concerned, Cork were dead and buried.

Cork ladies football manager Eamonn Ryan has bemoaned the fact that 28 members of his panel were involved in club action less than a fortnight before their All-Ireland final contest against Dublin on Sunday week.

Ten years ago, Rena Buckley was the youngest starter in Cork’s first Division 1 National League final, aged just 17.

St. Val’s 0-11 Inch Rovers 1-07

Cork's Senior Ladies Footballers arrived back on Leeside tonight, shortly after 8.30pm with the Brendan Martin Cup en tow, after picking up an eighth All-Ireland title in nine years at Croke Park yesterday.

St Vals will meet last year’s champions Inch Rovers in the final of the Cork Ladies’ Football Championship, after they hammered Éire Óg at CIT yesterday.

Carnacon (Mayo) 0-14 Inch Rovers (Cork) 0-10

Clare champions, The Banner, go in search of their first Munster Senior A ladies football championship title tonight in Kilmallock (8pm).

Inch Rovers 0-14 Donoughmore 0-9

Tonight Donoughmore bid for a 14th Senior A county title when they face Inch Rovers in the Tesco Homegrown Ladies SFC final at Páirc Uí Rinn (7.45pm).

REPUBLIC of IRELAND ladies soccer manager Sue Ronan shared her experiences as both a player and international soccer manager as she praised the 105 student recipients of CIT sports bursaries at the Oriel House Hotel last night.

THROUGH Carnacon’s good, bad and indifferent days over the last 25 years one name has remained constant.

Wexford’s camogie captain, Ursula Jacob and Cork’s football captain Amy O’Shea, have been named as joint winners of The Irish Times / Irish Sports Council ‘Sportswoman of the Month’ for September.

A LATE point by Yvonne Twomey saw Donoughmore win the Cork Evening Echo Ladies SFC final by a solitary point in Cork IT yesterday.

FOR Pat Gilroy’s Dubs it was Corduff.

CORK captain Amy O’Shea has revealed the Leesiders are desperate to win back the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC crown this Sunday against Monaghan.

IT has taken some time to manifest itself, but ladies football and camogie are finally being hit by the same unemployment and emigration epidemic which has had such a negative impact on their male counterparts in the GAA.

Ireland’s most decorated GAA player, Mary O’Connor, has announced her retirement.

CORK dual star Mary O’Connor kicked five points as Inch Rovers were crowned Tesco All-Ireland Ladies senior club football champions for the very first time yesterday.

LEINSTER COUNCIL officials will decide today whether the weekend’s senior hurling and football provincial finals can proceed as planned.

MUNSTER Council GAA chiefs will inspect two pitches this morning ahead of Sunday’s Munster club SFC final between Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes.

CARNACON and Inch Rovers will meet in the All-Ireland Club senior championship final for the third time in four years after semi-finals wins yesterday.

LADIES Football Association president Pat Quill said insisted that it is all systems go for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior and junior club finals, despite the continuing rainfall around the country this week.

WITH eight minutes to play and Dublin leading by two points, Cork manager Eamon Ryan’s faith began to ebb.

CORK are chasing their sixth consecutive Munster ladies football title when they take on old rivals Kerry in Bruff tonight (7pm) but Angela Walsh is unhappy that the winners will be forced to wait seven weeks to get back into action.

CARNACON’S self-belief was the key to their second consecutive victory over East Cork side Inch Rovers in the VHI Healthcare Ladies Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship decider, according to Mayo star Cora Staunton, who played a starring role by scoring all of their 11 points in Sunday’s final in Tullamore.

A GREAT game to win, but a terrible way to lose. The sense of euphoria shared by holders Carnacon with their supporters on the field at the finish contrasted sharply with the heartbreak experienced by Inch Rovers in yesterday’s VHI Healthcare All-Ireland Ladies club SFC final in Tullamore.

REIGNING champions Carnacon from Mayo appreciate the challenge they can expect from Cork and Munster champions Inch Rovers in tomorrow’s VHI Healthcare All-Ireland ladies football senior club final in Tullamore (2.30pm).