A win wasn’t part of Vinnie Byrne’s grand design in yesterday’s HSI /Blue Grass Spring Tour at Maryville Equestrian Centre in Cork, so when it came it proved a nice bonus.

Even now, a decade on, amid the jagged bays and bleak hillsides of the Beara peninsula, John Lock O’Sullivan is remembered.

Castletownbere 1-12 Éire Óg 0-13

Sunday’s IFC final between Éire Óg and Castletownbere will be Alan O’Regan’s fifth time playing in a decider.

Castletownbere 0-12 Adrigole 0-6

Castletownbere dedicated their IFC win over Grenagh at Inchigeela on Saturday to fisherman Pearse Lyne, who tragically died at sea last week.

Castletownbere were the better side from start to finish at Kilmichael yesterday as they condemned Glanmire to their third straight defeat in this year’s championship.

Adrigole 1-14 Castletownbere 0-11

IT’S really adding up for maths students at a Cork secondary school.

COURCEY ROVERS survived a late rally from Youghal to win the Cork Premier IHC final by 0-15 to 1-10 at Páirc Ui Rinn yesterday — an inspirational display from centre-back and man-of-the-match Vince Hurley going a long way to helping them gain senior status.

TODAY

EIGHTY-SIX miles separates the GAA club in Castletownbere and the Páirc Uí Rinn pitch where they hope to claim the Cork intermediate football trophy against Kinsale tomorrow afternoon.

CASTLETOWNBERE cruised to a comfortable victory over local rivals Adrigole in this Cork IFC fourth round clash at Cahermore yesterday.

LAST year’s Cork Premier IFC semi-finalists St Vincent’s came undone in the first round against Nemo Rangers on Saturday night at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Cork was doubly represented in the Croke Park finals of 1993, but though the minor footballers brought home the bacon, the graduation to senior level was poor. One of Cork’s forwards that day is determined to ensure the present crop of minors do better. Fintan O’Toole explains

CAPTAIN GEOFF CURRAN and eventing high performance manager Ginny Elliot are confident the Army officer’s mount, The Jump Jet, will be fighting fit for the Alltech World Equestrian Games in Kentucky.

A POINT by Dermot O’Sullivan in the 64th minute earned Cullen a second bite of the cherry in this keenly contested Duhallow JFC final at Kiskeam on Saturday.

CHARLES HAUGHEY was described as the dominant public figure of late 20th century as he was laid to rest yesterday in St Fintan’s Cemetery in Sutton in Dublin yesterday.

ST. FINBARR’S edged out Killeagh, 1-17 to 2-13, in a nailbiting Evening Echo Cork County SHC first round tie at Midleton on Saturday.

CORK’s Intermediate Football Championship crackled into life at the weekend as North Cork outfit Newmarket overcame Castletownbere in a battle of two title hopefuls at Inchigeela.

Cork 1-10 Fermanagh 0-8