Bishopstown 1-9 Clyda Rovers 0-8: This fourth-round Cork SFC game at Páirc Uí Rinn Saturday proved an endurance test for both teams. Similarly for neutrals, with the worst excesses of the modern game in terms of ‘blanket’ covering, body-checking an obsession with hand-passing and, additionally, an undercurrent of bad feeling which saw two of seven players yellow-carded eventually shown a red card, another black-carded and several more escape censure.

Clyda Rovers 0-12 Aghada 0-7: James Murphy gave an exhibition of point scoring for Clyda Rovers as they defeated Aghada in the third round of the Cork senior football championship at Watergrasshill on Saturday night.

O’Donovan Rossa 2-15 Clonakilty 0-10: A West Cork senior football championship game usually produces plenty of fireworks, but this one at Rosscarbery yesterday fizzled out and faded quickly as O’Donovan Rossa crushed a hugely disappointing Clonakilty.

O’Donovan Rossa 1-14 Douglas 1-06

O’Donovan Rossa 1-13 Dohenys 1-07

YOUNG MUNSTER turned the clock back two decades with a stirring ODM Munster Senior Cup triumph over gallant University College Cork at sunny Musgrave Park on Saturday.

SARSFIELDS winning the county SHC title in 2008 has certainly had a knock on effect at local schools level where the boys of Riverstown produced a fine display to win the Allianz Sciath na Scol DH1 final at Páirc Ui Rinn yesterday.

LESS than a month ago in a vital promotion clash, these two sides locked horns with Young Munster perhaps lucky to prevail 3-0 in the Mardyke.

A GOAL by Conor McCarthy in the 16th minute proved decisive in a keenly-contested Evening Echo SFC first round clash at Ballineen last night.

SHANNON coach Mick Galwey had stern words for his troops despite a 14-points AIB All-Ireland Cup victory at the Mardyke on Saturday.

DOUBLE delight for De La Salle, Macroom at Dunmanway yesterday.

St. Fachtna’s 2-8 Limerick Colleges 0-11

ON a weekend when the Cork hurlers were beating Tipperary in the Munster hurling final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, there were some interesting Evening Echo Cork senior football championship clashes around the county.

Castlehaven 2-11 Youghal 4-3

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.

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Cork 0-18 Dublin 1-6

St. Brogan’s, Bandon 2-15 Coachford College 0-10

Coláiste Spioraid Naoimh 2-12 St. Fachtnas, Skibbereen 3-7

Mallow 2-9 Castlehaven 1-10

THE three substitutes who inspired Cork to victory over Clare have been retained for Saturday’s second All-Ireland SFC qualifier with Fermanagh at Croke Park.

Cork 0-15 Clare 0-11

COLIN CORKERY, Brendan Ger O’Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy have been given starting places on the Cork team to meet Clare in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland, All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Cusack Park, Ennis.

THERE are four debutantes on the Cork Senior football team for Sunday’s Munster Championship semi-final against Kerry in Killarney.

Westmeath 0-14 Cork 0-12

Cork 2-8, Limerick 1-9

Wexford 3-14 Cork 0-9

WITHOUT question, Billy Morgan was the happier of the two managers coming off the field in Parnell Park at the end of yesterday's Allianz National Football League tie.

THE Cork selectors have called up promising Carbery Rangers forward Kevin McMahon for Saturday night’s Allianz National Football League clash with Longford at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Cork CFE 2-11, Sligo IT 2-8

KERRY and Munster champions An Ghaeltacht have made one change in their team for Sunday's AIB All- Ireland club football semi-final against St Brigid's in Semple Stadium, Thurles (2pm).

A smashing 31st minute try by flanker Barry O'Mahony was a key element in Crescent Comprehensive's easy passage to the semi-final of the Coca Cola Munster Schools senior Cup in Bandon yesterday.

Cork 1-8 Westmeath 2-5

PHILIP CLIFFORD has been given the chance to resurrect his inter-county career after being picked at right corner-forward on the Cork team for Saturday’s Allianz NFL against Westmeath at Páirc Uí Rinn (7.30pm).

Youghal CBS 4-7 Coláiste Chríost Rí 0-10

Munster's Railway Cup football team has a decidedly Limerick flavour to it with no less than six Shannonside players in the starting lineup.

THE Leinster team to play Ulster in the Interprovincial Football Championship semi-final tomorrow in Enniskillen includes six players from the side which defeated the northerners 1-14 to 2-9 in last year’s final.

Castlehaven 1-9 Clonakilty 1-7