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

Manager Stephen O’Brien has lauded Tomás Ó Sé’s role in returning Nemo Rangers to the showpiece event of Cork football.

Nemo Rangers 4-11 Ilen Rovers 1-9

Cork SFC (Divisions/Colleges) preliminary round

A quick glance at the Dublin club hurling roll of honour and one trend becomes instantly apparent.

Nemo Rangers 2-09 St Nicholas 0-05

Sigerson Cup quarter-final: Athlone IT 0-11 CIT 1-4

The dressing rooms in Dr Hyde Park are out on a limb and last Saturday night, despite a biting wind, a group of disappointed Sligo fans hung around to see up close the team that had just taken them apart.

It’s rare Nemo Rangers fail to win the first round of the Cork County SFC and rarer still they are limited to just three points from play.

CORK IT will meet Cork in the semi-final of the McGrath Cup next Sunday after overcoming IT Tralee without too much trouble at the CIT Sports Stadium yesterday.

TO apply some context to this headline result in Fermoy on Saturday, one should underline that this is only the second Cork SFC game Nemo Rangers have lost over the past five years.

NEMO RANGERS’ goal in the 17th minute proved all-important in deciding this Cork SFC fourth round tie at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

ALL-IRELAND winners Brian O’Regan and Paul O’Flynn will not be involved in Cork’s panel for the defence of their crown which begins with Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Clare in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

IT’S almost unfortunate Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh isn’t commentating on Sunday’s Allianz HL Division 1 final. He would have been in his element reciting the native counties of the Dublin players’ parents.

CORK panellists Paddy O’Shea and Kevin McMahon have both opted of Conor Counihan’s senior football squad.

TWELVE months ago it was the Kilmurry-Ibrickane supporters deliriously celebrating a famous All-Ireland club semi-final victory in the Gaelic Grounds.

NEMO RANGERS’ Paul Kerrigan will today undergo a scan to ascertain whether he suffered damage to his leg during Sunday’s Munster Club SFC final victory over Dr Crokes in Mallow.

IT’S been over a year since Paul Kerrigan last had a month free of football, be it action or collective training.

CORK will be without All-Ireland winning captain Graham Canty and goalkeeper Alan Quirke for the opening rounds of their NFL Division 1 campaign.

NEMO RANGERS attacker Barry O’Driscoll will be fit for Sunday week’s Munster Club SFC final against Dr Crokes after recovering from a fractured cheekbone sustained in their semi-final victory over Stradbally in November.

CORK boss Conor Counihan will make his 2011 managerial bow in next Sunday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final against Limerick in Newcastlewest but will operate without the majority of his All-Ireland winning team for the pre-season clash.

THE seven-day delay has done little to shift the lustre off this mouth-watering final.

NEMO RANGERS manager Eddie Kirwan has warned that the club will look to the Munster Council to postpone Sunday’s provincial final against Dr Crokes until February if the game is called off for a second time.

THERE was never any doubt about favourites Nemo Rangers securing their place in the AIB Munster Club football final in Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

THE natural order of club football matters on Leeside has been restored.

IT’S a measure of the greatness of this Nemo Rangers setup that they have delivered such a formidable riposte to last year’s quarter-final championship exit.

KILLIAN YOUNG makes a return, Darragh O Sé gets a starting place at midfield and Tommy Walsh is fit to play in the full-forward position as a new-look Kerry team prepare to take on Cork in the Munster SFC semi-final replay at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

Seán Óg Ó hAilpín has admitted that there is a strong chance he will never play for Cork again.

NOBODY puts manners on Cork football freshmen like Nemo Rangers.

NEMO RANGERS remain on course to win their fourth successive Cork SFC title following victory over Castlehaven in a dour quarter-final replay at Castletown-kenneigh on Saturday.

TOMORROW’S Munster SFC clash of Limerick and Cork at the Gaelic Grounds will evoke memories of the last meeting between the counties at the same venue. The occasion was June 10, 2006 when Cork prevailed 0-9 to 0-5 in one of the poorest games of the season.

St. Vincent's (Dublin) 1-11 Nemo Rangers (Cork) 0-13

YOU may like ‘em white, but more and more people are opting for a bronze turkey for Christmas — the bird hunted by the Pilgrims in America for their first Thanksgiving dinner and the ancestor of our modern turkey.

ROUND TWO, nineteen years on. Dr Crokes of Killarney don’t have happy memories of their last visit to Cork for a Munster club championship game.

St Gall’s 0-10 Nemo Rangers 1-6

A BIG doubt surrounds the Nemo Rangers seven for Cork’s clash with Kerry in the final of the McGrath Cup at Pairc Uí Rinn on Sunday.

Nemo Rangers 1-14 Muskerry 0-7

Nemo Rangers 3-10 Bantry Blues 1-5

DECLAN O’SULLIVAN is a notable absentee from the Kerry team to face Waterford in tonight’s Erin Munster U21 FC semi-final in Killarney (7.30pm).

Waterford 1-13 Cork 2-8

ALAN MORGAN was both the hero and villain for Nemo Rangers in yesterday’s highly entertaining AIB Munster Club SFC quarter-final clash with Kilmurry-Ilbrickane at Quilty.