In the same way that he disagreed with the assertion of Cork football being on its knees, Ronan McCarthy doesn’t now believe that a couple of notable results have made everything “rosy in the garden”.

Cork football manager Ronan McCarthy believes there is more in his team than what they produced in this evening’s demolition job of Laois.

This fixture is part of a double-header at the Cork city venue, and precedes the Munster GAA SFC semi-final between Cork and Limerick at the same venue (7pm).

Michael Moynihan looks ahead to five intriguing games taking place this Easter weekend.

For the second year in a row, Allianz Division 1 hurling quarter-finals will take place on the St Patrick’s weekend due to postponed matches.

The result may be a setback from a Cork perspective, but in the greater scheme of things, a significant step forward in Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday as Cork’s ladies footballers got to share the stage with their male counterparts for the first time.

Composure under pressure proved decisive as Midleton CBS secured a first Munster crown in 13 years at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday afternoon.

Cork hurling supporters will have to pay into Páirc Uí Rinn twice on Saturday, February 16, if they wish to take in the all-Cork Harty Cup final and the county’s league fixture against Clare.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh may not be available for GAA action until Cork hurlers’ Munster SHC Round 1 game against Clare.

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

Dreaming of the double. And why wouldn’t they? Two steps more and either Kanturk or Mallow will celebrate the most successful year in their club’s respective history.

Eoghan Cormican looks ahead to the action in the Cork club championship this weekend.

Tipperary will be without Kieran Bergin for their Munster and All-Ireland SHC defence.

The problem, relatively speaking, with winning three All-Ireland minor titles in a row is that people expect that success to automatically translate itself to U21 level.

Cork captain Paul Kerrigan admits their aim must be to win their remaining five games after picking up just one point from their opening two matches in Division Two of the Allianz League.

In the life cycle of every team, a moment presents itself whereby the glass ceiling can be cracked.

These days, when the Cork county senior hurling championship final is called the ‘Little All-Ireland’ it’s done so with a healthy sense of self-depreciation as opposed to the self-delusion that existed in the past.

Clare manager Davy Fitzgerald made the point after their Munster championship clash with Waterford that one defeat “doesn’t make you a bad team”.

Cork senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan has welcomed the GAA’s decision to schedule the county’s hurling and football qualifier clashes on one bill this Saturday.

Cork 1-26 Dublin 1-23: Firstly, the positives for Cork. Heaven knows there’s been enough of the other stuff this last while.

A look ahead to all the weekend’s action around Cork...

A look ahead to tonight’s three games...

Cork football management had to go “cap in hand” to several clubs when seeking a pitch for training during the first two months of the year, selector Eoin O’Neill has revealed.

Cork GAA senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan has launched a robust defence of training facilities in the county, insisting that Cork teams are not at the behest of clubs when chasing a pitch for training.

Kilkenny find themselves in a parallel universe this Saturday evening. But for training, they don’t do floodlights.

Cork county councillors have been lobbied by a developer to review the zoning of a parcel of land on the city’s outskirts to pave the way for the first phase of a multimillion-euro science park.

Former Cork hurlers Charlie McCarthy, Seán O’Gorman and Pat Mulcahy will form part of the committee charged with finding the county’s new senior hurling manager.

Former Cork footballer Dinny Long has said that he wouldn’t rule out getting involved in the next county management team if he were asked.

Sciath na Scol officials will learn tonight if Páirc Uí Rinn is to be made available by the Cork County Board to stage 12 schools football finals in November.

Cork U21 FC

Clare 0-15 Limerick 0-13: THERE were but fleeting mentions of Cork.

Clare v Tipperary

The night after Ballincollig surprised everyone by stepping over Nemo Rangers into a first Cork county football final, manager Michael O’Brien sat his management team, some players and members of the club’s executive down, writes Tony Leen.

Sunday's All-Ireland finalists Kerry and Donegal will both have home advantage for four of their seven Division 1 games next season.

It wasn’t just one of the deals of the century for Cork GAA — those of a soccer persuasion believed the 1989 purchase by Cork County Board of the old Flower Lodge was also the steal of the century.