A man walking through Cork city with a bolt cutter down his tracksuit pants and tied from a cord around his neck claimed it was a measure he took to relieve pain from a dislocated shoulder.

Larry Kavanagh would have bought brother Joe a scoop on Sunday night in appreciation of the latter’s essential contributions to Nemo Rangers’ 16th Munster Club SFC title success.

Provincial championship victories for Cork clubs over Kerry are infrequent enough for yesterday’s Munster Club SFC final to be toasted beyond the confines of Nemo Rangers’ expansive Trabeg base. But giddy suggestions their 0-16 to 0-11 victory over Dr Crokes may be the trigger for a Cork football resurgence might be stretching the point some.

They didn’t need to win a first county senior title for Harry Gleeson to be told his Adare footballers were in bonus territory. He’s had those words ringing in his ears since the middle of last summer.

You would imagine, tactically, Nemo Rangers’ management will detail Alan Cronin to man-mark St Finbarr’s Stephen Sherlock from the off next Sunday in the replay of the Cork SFC final.

A Bohemians football supporter involved in a pre-match melee with other Bohs and Cork City fans yesterday pleaded guilty to his part in the affray .

A group of Cork City fans involved in a pre-match fight with visiting Bohemians supporters are missing a historically successful season for the League of Ireland leaders as they are banned from Turners Cross stadium.

Eight face charges over incident that saw stones and bottles thrown

NEMO Rangers have endured injury frustration throughout the season, and they've lost two more front liners for today's Munster Club SFC final against Clonmel Commercials at rain-sodden Mallow.

Nemo Rangers manager Steven O’Brien last night hailed many of his unsung squad members, despite the fact that they’ve been “knocked all season”.

Nemo Rangers (Cork) 0-14 Killarney Legion (Kerry) 0-8: WITH November’s gluepot ground conditions comes a downward gear change.

It has always been an article of faith of Nemo Rangers they don’t ‘just’ win county titles.

Nemo Rangers 1-15 Douglas 0-11: A seven-point winning margin for Nemo Rangers in this Cork SFC fourth round replay doesn’t tell the whole story of a game which had three distinct parts.

A man who left a city centre nightclub was jeered, punched, and kicked which left him unconscious on the ground with a broken eye socket and a broken cheekbone.

Cork SFC semi-final

St. Finbarr’s 3-11 Nemo Rangers 2-11

Nemo Rangers 4-11 Ilen Rovers 1-9

Apart from county senior football champions Castlehaven, only one other club has more than one player starting for Cork in Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC round 4A qualifier against Sligo at O’Connor Park in Tullamore (throw-in 5pm).

Sean Dineen is the surprise inclusion in the Cork senior football squad for the championship.

Inside the revolving door that has been the Cork team, this spring stands just one man.

Cork SFC (Divisions/Colleges) preliminary round

Cork’s Mark Collins feels Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 defeat to Mayo will provide a good test of character for the squad.

Cork will not mount any further opposition to the decision to run the Féile na nGael without top-tier competitions in both 2014 and ’15.

Resilience, belief but most of all heart — 13-man UCC ticking all three boxes in defying their underdog status and securing a place in this evening’s Sigerson Cup decider.

UCC officials have indicated to the GAA’s Higher Education committee they will appeal Alan Cronin’s sending-off during yesterday’s Sigerson Cup semi-final.

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SIGERSON CUP QUARTER-FINAL:

The GAA’s Higher Education Committee have been forced to put in place stand-by venues for three of the Sigerson Cup quarter-finals scheduled for today.

Of the 40 players who saw game-time in the 2012 Fitzgibbon Cup final between UCC and Cork IT, 13 are now part of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling squad.

In the middle of Páirc Uí Rinn afterwards, respective managers Jason Ryan and Brian Cuthbert stood comparing notes, names and progress. The Kildare manager has been about the place — for his Cork counterpart, a senior bib may be new, but the fundamentals stay the same.

Cork 0-16 Kildare 1-12

UCC 1-14 Trinity College 1-07

Ruairí Deane, Alan Cronin and Donal Óg Hodnett are some of the notable newcomers to the Cork football squad for the Allianz Football League Division 1 campaign, though Ray Carey is not included.

CORK

Have a look back over Conor Counihan’s lengthy interview with this newspaper back in September and the mass exodus from the senior football panel over the last three months no longer seems so startling.

Michael Shields has been appointed captain of the Cork footballers.

Castlehaven 0-16 Nemo Rangers 1-11

Sometime, hopefully, an enterprising tv production unit might take a punt and invest a year of their careers living under the skin of a parish GAA club.

10 teams are celebrating County Senior Football title wins this evening, after today's finals in Cork, Kildare, Galway, Westmeath, Monaghan, Offaly, Cavan, Tyrone, Carlow and Sligo.

Nemo Rangers 2-09 St Nicholas 0-05

Galway 1-14 Cork 1-11

The time is now for the Cork U21 team to win another All-Ireland, believes John O’Rourke

Cavan 1-11 Cork 0-15