The GAA have yet to decide if counties who chose not to play in the new second tier football championship will be punished.

Duhallow take on Newcestown in Cork SFC semi-final in Páirc Uí Rinn, throw-in at 2pm.

Munster Rugby’s loss is Cork GAA’s gain as Aidan O’Connell joins the latter organisation as their first ever high-performance manager.

Cork GAA have appointed Munster Rugby's strength and conditioning coach Aidan O'Connell as the county's new High Performance Manager.

The Irish Examiner is proud to announce that Renault, official car partner of the GAA, is the exclusive sponsor of our GAA Championship podcast.

Éamonn Fitzmaurice might not be pacing the Fitzgerald Stadium sideline this Sunday but for many in Mayo he might as well be.

Conor Counihan may have been a man for the dummy team but none of his successors — Brian Cuthbert, Peadar Healy, and Ronan McCarthy — have been known for it.

Reduced media profile is not a good reason for counties to shy away from a two-tier Gaelic football championship, argues former Cork manager Brian Cuthbert, who wants the GAA to grasp this opportunity for change and also scrap the minor championship.

Two-tier effects. Cork's plan. Too much too young in the GAA.

Cork are Cork. Or are they?

Conor Counihan’s role as Cork’s Gaelic football project coordinator doesn’t officially commence until June 3rd but he’s already on duty.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland SFC winning manager Conor Counihan has been appointed as project co-ordinator for Gaelic football.

The Athletic Grounds has been a happy hunting ground for Cork football in the past but it’s a daunting place Sunday. A win there combined with a Tipperary victory or draw against Clare in Thurles can save Cork from Division 3. And yet that sense of foreboding is difficult to shift.

It is hard to talk GAA or any sport this week in Ireland without thinking of today’s funerals of the four young men who lost their lives in a Donegal car crash on Sunday, writes Jack Anderson.

It might only be the McGrath Cup, but the Cork footballers, for a variety of reasons, would be best served by ensuring the pre-season silverware is perched at the front of the team bus when it pulls out of Willie Clancy country tomorrow afternoon.

You’d have to consider it a state of emergency. Corkness has been declared missing, writes Larry Ryan.

A number of new frontline Cork GAA appointments will spearhead a major five-year plan aimed at reviving the fortunes of Cork football.

Is ‘Corkness’ really a thing? How best to describe it and what does it look and sound like?

All-Ireland-winning captain Graham Canty reckons Cork can no longer be considered a top-10 football county — and has warned that breaking back into the championship elite is a far tougher proposition than it was in his heyday.

Tony Leen on the key details from the new vision for Cork football.

Section 7 of the 42-page plan to lever Cork football out of its slump is headlined: What Now?

Cork GAA chair Tracey Kennedy has admitted that the county needs “a complete culture shift” in its attitude and approach to Gaelic football.

You can’t say that the GAA isn’t on trend, writes Brendan O’Brien

Former Cork senior football manager Brian Cuthbert has called for the underage development squad model to be reexamined in Gaelic games.

Cork’s All-Ireland winning captain in 2010, Graham Canty, and the manager of that side, Conor Counihan, will form part of a special internal sub-committee in Cork to develop a long-term plan for the progression of football in the county.

THE problem for the Cork footballers and those burdened with making the repayments on Páirc Uí Chaoimh was not the sight of thousands streaming out before the end of Saturday’s lopsided Munster final. It was the percentage of them who won’t be back.

Such has been their dreadful inconsistency in recent years, any analysis of the Cork footballers tends to yo-yo from one extreme to the other.

Before the door of Dressing Room No 3 underneath Semple Stadium’s Old Stand closed towards us, the first four of Liam Kearns’ words to his numbed Tipperary players seeped out.

Before the door of Dressing Room No 3 underneath Semple Stadium’s Old Stand closed towards us, the first four of Liam Kearns’ words to his numbed Tipperary players seeped out.

Somewhere, somehow Cork is haemorrhaging, or squandering, an abundance of football talent, writes Colm Cooper. 

Since Conor Counihan departed as Cork manager almost five years ago, three different managers have presided over 54 games and used 76 players — and not once put the same team out in successive games. Eoghan Cormican crunches the numbers.

The Cork senior hurling management may have to plan for the early rounds of the championship without Newtownshandrum’s Tim O’Mahony, who picked up a suspected fractured elbow over the weekend.

Eight years on since Danny Hughes claimed an All-Star in Down’s improbable and glorious run to an All-Ireland final against Cork, he is still angry with football.

Former Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert has proposed an overhaul of the under-age coaching mechanisms in the GAA in which designated secondary schools would become inter-county academies.

It hasn’t always been the way of Cork GAA to sidestep intrigue and personality in the matter of team management appointments, but the absence of both in the speedy confirmation of Ronan McCarthy as the new coach to the senior footballers represents a positive in itself.

The five key issues awaiting the new Cork coach.

All-Ireland winning Cork football manager Conor Counihan has welcomed the appointment of Ronan McCarthy, saying he hopes the Douglas man “gets the time he needs in the new job”.

July 23, 1995. Take That’s ‘Never Forget’ tops the Irish charts. John Daly is adding a second Major with an Open win in St Andrews and Cork are making Killarney their home away from home for a second time in three years.

For Alan O’Connor, the fire burns as strong as it ever did.