Cork’s Orla Finn is relishing the start of the knockout section of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Championship as the Rebels face Westmeath in Limerick’s Gaelic Grounds at 4.45pm on Monday.

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

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

Hidden away on the Beara peninsula is one of our last remaining rainforests, discovers Carl Dixon.

Both Cork and Dublin have made one change each for Sunday’s All-Ireland ladies football final.

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

Muireann Ní Scanaill (Dublin full-back)

Cork coach Eamonn Ryan is expected to make changes to his team for Saturday’s All-Ireland Ladies SFC quarter-final against Galway (Gaelic Grounds, 6pm) from the side which defeated Meath earlier this month.

O’Donovan Rossa 2-11 Beara 0-8 (Cork SFC): If the outcome of this fourth-round clash was ever truly in doubt, then one sweeping passage of play on 41 minutes laid to rest all uncertainty.

Since winning Cork’s intermediate football championship in 2005, Carbery Rangers’ stock has risen gradually.

ONE of the reasons Irish crime writing took so long to develop as a body of work is Ireland lacked the kind of large, anonymous urban settings where crime fiction tends to thrive. 

There are times in The Menu’s life when a prolonged sojourn in Sheep’s Head is the only repair for his poor benighted soul.

Beara 0-15 Seandún 1-17

Writer and performer Aidan Dooley has reworked his show Our Last Chieftain: O’Sullivan Beara by tapping into what made Tom Crean: Antarctic Explorer so successful.

Poet, Leanne O’Sullivan, will read from her latest collection, The Mining Road, at the Allihies Arts Week, in Beara, West Cork on Saturday.

Pride and a fanatical will to win were abundant ingredients in Bantry’s win over Beara in Saturday’s semi-final thriller in Kealkil.

Beara enjoyed a comfortable passage through to the Cork U21AFC semi-final with a comprehensive victory over Youghal in Macroom on Saturday.

A scoring surge in the final 10 minutes enabled Avondhu to pull clear of Beara at rainswept Newcestown on Saturday.

Paul McCarthy was appointed as the new Cork junior football manager at last night’s county board meeting in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Neil Jordan’s in-production Byzantium is just one of many films to use the Beara Peninsula as a backdrop, says Carl Dixon

HOLIDAY funds dried up or washed out?

BEARA cruised into the Cork U21 FC semi-final after comprehensively dismantling Glanworth at Kilmurry on Saturday.

BRIAN CUTHBERT does not have to look far for evidence to focus his players minds on tonight’s Munster MFC quarter-final clash against Clare in Páirc Ui Rinn.

THE Cork County Board last night strongly defended the implementation of a round-robin system for the divisional section of this season’scounty SFC, despite Imokilly and Seandun both giving walkovers for their final group games due to an inability to field a starting XV.

THE new Munster vice president of the Irish Farmers Association is Chris Hayes, a former chairman of the West Cork county IFA executive.

ALL SFC: Tomorrow: Ilen Rovers v O’Donovan Rossa: Castlehaven, 3.30 p.m.

CORK crowned a magnificent season at the TG4/O’Neills Ladies Football All-Stars ceremony by winning five awards to add to their All-Ireland final victory.

AS another instalment of Gaelic football's greatest rivalry is played out in Croke Park tomorrow, stars of the seventies Kerry's Mickey Ned O'Sullivan and Cork's Kevin Jer O'Sullivan recall some of the magical days from their playing careers.

Brendan Larkin

THE highlight of a curtailed championship programme in Cork was Douglas’ 0-11 to 1-7 Evening Echo Cork Co SFC victory over last year’s beaten semi-finalists Mallow at Watergrasshill.

Donoughmore 3-13 St Patrick's, Kerry 1-5

ACTION aplenty in the permanent TSB Cork County SFC over the weekend, pride of place going to a youthful St. Nick’s side who edged out last year’s beaten finalists, Clonakilty, 1-11 to 2-7 in Newcestown.

ALL-IRELAND Club champions Nemo Rangers may have taken three and a half hours of football and two replays to decide the issue, but the Cork kingpins finally delivered at Bishopstown on Saturday, proving too strong for St Finbarr’s, 1-10 to 0-09, in a lively Kelleher Shield quarter-final.

Beara 1-9 Douglas 1-7

BRIDE ROVERS, from the village of Rathcormack, won the Permanent TSB Cork County IHC for the first time at Pairc Uí Chaoimh yesterday with a 1-15 to 1-5 victory over Inniscarra.

LEITRIM footballer Ciaran Murray has pledged to return to New York and face the full rigours of the law for the ‘silly’ bomb prank at JFK Airport which went disastrously wrong.

THE first of several possible championship clashes between Kerry and Cork this year takes place at Dunmanway, Co. Cork tomorrow in the Munster inter-county vocational schools SFC final (2.30).