A unique collection of ex-Taoiseach and GAA legend Jack Lynch’s personal, political and sporting belongings is available for close inspection in his native Cork for the first time.

The five key issues awaiting the new Cork coach.

There have been renewed calls on Cork hurling fans to abstain from flying the Confederate flag at Croke Park today, writes Ciara Phelan.

Tipperary’s league final hammering will have instilled significant belief in the Cork camp that victory is attainable this weekend, according to former Rebel County hurler John Considine.

Hundreds turned out for the opening of the farmers market in Ballyseedy, Co Cork today.

Kerry 2-16 - Cork 0-6: The hype was justified, these Kerry boys are simply different gravy. 

Irrespective of the outcome in this evening’s All-Ireland intermediate hurling decider, Cork GAA faces a long winter of discontent.

Galway manager Anthony Cunningham will concentrate on his own charges and what they bring to the party rather than on the effectiveness of Cork’s new playing format when the sides meet in Sunday’s All-Ireland quarter-final clash at Semple Stadium.

An African-American singer who has lived in Cork for more than 17 years has urged the Rebel County’s GAA fans to stop flying the Confederate flag at football and hurling matches.

Cork play Kilkenny this evening in a senior hurling challenge in Páirc Uí Rinn (7pm), but the dominant narrative isn’t Cork’s preparations for the league final, or Brian Cody’s integration of new faces into the Cats’ set-up.

There was a time when Liam Miller wondered if hailing from Cork would hold him back and block his path to becoming a Republic of Ireland international.

Former Kerry strength and conditioning coach Pat Flanagan is to be confirmed as part of the Cork footballers’ backroom team in the coming days.

It was a point stressed in the midst of last summer’s run to the All-Ireland final.

Former Cork minor football coach Brian Cuthbert has emerged from a crowded field as favourite for the vacant senior football manager post on Leeside.

Clare legend Ger O’Loughlin is in an unique position to assess the three counties still standing in the All-Ireland senior hurling championship race.

Jimmy’s winning matches, Jimmy’s winning games, Jimmy’s close to bringing Liam back to Cork again.

A group of north Cork students has traded the Rebel County for Orange County this week as they carry the green flag into a world robotics competition in California.

The break-up of Cork hurling’s old guard continues apace with goalkeeper Dónal Óg Cusack’s surprise departure from the Cork set-up for the forthcoming Allianz Hurling League.

Cork star Aidan Walsh is to take his college eligibility case to the Disputes Resolution Authority in the next week.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice, the new Kerry football manager, recently gave an interesting interview in which he discussed conditioning and physical strength in Gaelicfootball, saying underage players from Cork and Dublin, in particular, were more physically advanced than those from Kerry.

Given all the bad weather this week, I wonder are there a few nervous people in the GAA today about the three games in Thurles?

It would be completely unfair on Clare to suggest the survival of the open draw rests on their shoulders. That being said, it’s what happens on the pitch — and not in the stand — that should dictate such debates.

GAA President Liam O’Neill was on hand to recognise Sciath na Scol’s contribution to Cork GAA this week as the schools organisation was rewarded for more than 100 years of service with the Rebel Óg Monthly Award for June.

CORK senior hurling captain Donal Óg Cusack says he has “no issue” with inter-county managers being paid, pointing out regulation of payments seems to be the major issue.

JIMMY DEENIHAN, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and former Kerry All-Ireland-winning captain, launched his book, My Sporting Life, last night in Cork with the aid of a former opponent, Rebel County dual legend Jimmy Barry-Murphy.

GALWAY recorded their first championship win over Cork in 1975 but then made something of a habit of it with victories in 1979, 1985, 2002 and 2009.

Cork 4-15 Laois 3-9

A WELL-KNOWN Mayo GAA supporter who dresses up as St Patrick had his banner confiscated by a Garda sergeant at Sunday’s Allianz Football League clash with Dublin.

ROY KEANE has backed his native Cork in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC final.

IT’S only one game, one result, but what a stark contrast in reaction from the two counties involved.

THE victorious Irish team returned on Thursday from this year’s USHA Junior Four-Wall National Championships, held at the Lattof YMCA, Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, with an impressive haul of eight titles.

THE GAA has to address the issue of people being paid to manage club teams, former Clare goalkeeper Seamus Durack warned at the Bord Gais Energy-sponsored Munster GAA awards presentation on Saturday night.

MUNSTER GAA chairman Jimmy O’Gorman admitted that provincial council chiefs may have to tweak their fixtures next year to accommodate Cork’s dual demands.

IT was the green, green grass of home that finally made Jenny crumble.

CORK manager Conor Counihan is reluctant to draw comparisons between the Rebel County’s current success at U21 level and their monopoly of the grade in the 1980s that led to a golden period for the senior side.

A SMALLER cost base has allowed ladies football and camogie to avoid the worst of the economic downturn so far, but both sports will need to brace themselves in the months ahead, according to Cumann Peil na mBan president, Geraldine Giles.

The first major silverware of the season may have gone to Tipperary but Cork captain John Gardiner says that the Rebel County are ready to push the Premier all the way in the queat for GAA All-ireland SHC honours in 2008.

Former Cork football star Conor Counihan has been appointed as manager of the Rebel County's senior football team according to reports.

The Central Competitions Control Committee of the GAA have decided to respond favourably to a request from the Cork Co Board to postponed the Allianz National Hurling and Football league ties involving the Rebel County this weekend.

BOOKMAKING giant Boylesports will refund all bets on Cork to win the Munster or All-Ireland senior titles.

ONE night some 43 years ago a delegation was ushered into a meeting of the Kerry County GAA Board in Tralee.