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.

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

The conversation with Ronan McCarthy is almost four minutes old when the performance of Ruairí Deane is brought up.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland captain wants to see his county back up their performance against Mayo.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland captain Graham Canty has warned people not to read too much into the team’s heartening defeat against would-be All-Ireland runners-up Mayo last summer.

If there were still people who believed that cybercrime was a concern solely of big business and multinational corporations, the events of last week represented a rude awakening. 

More than a quarter of businesses have been hit by cyber attacks over the past two years, according to a new survey.

The Taoiseach and two government ministers have been warned they face a grassroots revolt over controversial plans to extend Cork’s city boundary.

See how you fared with the weekend’s golf fixtures.

Cork PIHC Round 3: Valley Rovers 1-21 - Blarney 1-8: Cork panellist Chris O’Leary scored 12 points as Valley Rovers took victory last night in the first game in the new Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Valley Rovers 1-16 Courcey Rovers 1-12: This was a magnificent Cork PIHC battle at Riverstick last night as two highly-charged teams overcame really challenging conditions to produce a game to remember.

After projects with Hozier and Conor McGregor, Brendan Canty’s focus is on mentoring at a youth film festival, writes Don O’Mahony

Ballincollig 0-13 Valley Rovers 0-8

Brenda Sexton opened her women’s shop on Saturday morning, as she has for 60 years. But that day it changed, sadly.

Valley Rovers 1-19 Bandon 0-13

Cork Premier IHC: Valley Rovers 3-20 Inniscarra 0-5

Tomás Ó Sé gives Cork little hope of turning over Kerry in the Munster final on July 5, and says the Rebels are more untrustworthy than Mayo.

Cork County Council has spent nearly €10m in four years promoting tourism and is aiming to do more to aid the industry.

Fermoy 2-15 Valley Rovers 1-9: Fermoy began life in the higher grade with a fully merited nine point win over Valley Rovers in the Cork Premier IHC at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

Young Wonder credit the internet for ensuring they can remain in Cork, writes Ed Power

Valley Rovers 2-10 Carbery Rangers 0-14: IT isn’t often the sporting planets align to deliver a match climax that maintains the high pitch of everything that preceded it, but such were the delights of last night’s intense Cork SFC first round clash at resplendent Ballinascarthy.

A ‘supercouncil’ to cover all of Cork looks to be on the cards after the majority of Cork county councillors said they were in favour of such a move.

As the Irish singer gets ready for the Grammys, Eoin Edwards hears the story of the €1,500 promo film that helped bring him to an audience of millions.

St Francis College Rochestown 3-9 Nenagh CBS 2-8: Tour-de-force performances from Ciarán Cormack and Shane Kingston returned St Francis College, Rochestown to the semi-final juncture of the Harty Cup for a second successive year.

An extensive fish rescue operation following the partial collapse of an historic weir at Ballincollig Regional Park has resulted in up to 10,000 fish being saved.

They are some of the sharpest sleuths in the Revenue Commissioners’ arsenal. Brian Canty goes to Cork Airport to learn how sniffer dogs go about their job

The Garda Síochána is on its knees. Almost regularly we hear about abuses of power, penalty points being knocked off, and summonses disappearing. But why are we only hearing this now? This kind of bullshit has been going on for years. Has anyone ever tried doing something about it?

Cork must find a different game plan for Mayo

Mark Collins wasn’t put out one iota by the searing criticism which followed Cork’s league semi-final defeat to Dublin.

Carbery 4-14 Seandun 0-10

Dublin 2-20 Cork 2-13

The High Court has dismissed as “devoid of any foundation in fact” a woman’s claim she was sexually assaulted by a garda in his patrol car 13 years ago.

A retired garda who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a woman in his patrol car 13 years ago says he did not think to obtain his phone records for the time to help establish an alibi which showed he was at home on a meal break when the incident occurred.

A retired garda denies sexually assaulting a hairdresser after giving her a lift in a patrol car 13 years ago, the High Court heard.

Cork hurlers welcome a new face to training tonight footballer Aidan Walsh finally linking up with Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s squad after months of speculation.

A farmer “took to the air” in a microlight aircraft when gardaí and security men arrived at his repossessed property to remove livestock over a debt, the High Court has heard.

With Graham Canty now in retirement, new Cork senior football manager Brian Cuthbert has turned to another defender to be his captain.

Michael Shields has been appointed captain of the Cork footballers.

Frightening was the word used in description.

Graham Canty calls it a day over a pot of tea in a quiet hostelry in Cork city. No great hysteria. No blaze of score-settling: the last Cork man to lift Sam Maguire was calm and measured. In character.

The high esteem in which Cork senior football captain Graham Canty is held can been seen by the glowing tributes that have been paid to him since today's announcement of his inter-county retirement.

Long-serving captain Graham Canty has become the latest Cork player to announce his retirement from senior inter-county following, joining recent retirees Noel O'Leary and Paudie Kissane in bowing out.