Catch up on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com this morning.

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.

The idea that for Cork the only way is up is completely wrong. There’s new depths there to plummet, writes Colm Cooper.

Just retired and outside the bubble, Cork’s Daniel Goulding can reflect now on half a decade when the Rebels were consistently at football’s top table. The trials of Mayo remind the Éire Óg man that Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland title is to be cherished. But just as he might have been, were those halcyon days from 2007 to 2012 taken for granted?

Good afternoon. Here’s all the news you need to know this lunchtime.

Cork senior football has no future unless a definitive game strategy and settled team is organised, says Colin Corkery.

Seán Óg Ó hAilpín is to make his first foray into the area of club management following his appointment as coach of Na Piarsaigh’s senior hurling and premier intermediate football teams.

Colin Corkery has but fond memories of Munster club football final afternoon; four appearances, four wins.

Temper tantrums, racist remarks and missed opportunities are among the regrets shared by some of the GAA’s best-loved football stars when quizzed by schoolchildren for a book due to be published later this month.

Nemo Rangers 1-10 Castlehaven 0-11: AROUND their considerable clubhouse on the South Douglas road last night, many of the men who created the Nemo Rangers legend of football dominance in Cork were agreed on one thing.

Defeat for Nemo Rangers in tomorrow’s Cork SFC final and we may well have seen the last of the rangy midfielder in his favoured black and green.

Nemo Rangers 5-11 St Nick’s 0-3 (Cork SFC quarter-final): Nemo Rangers may not be favourites to lift the Andy Scannell Cup this year, but this Steven O’Brien-coached, Trabeg side were strutting their stuff like champions-elect at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

AIDAN WALSH was hooked from the start. From his home in Kanturk, he can reach Fitzgerald Stadium in less than an hour and, growing up, there was plenty mystique surrounding Cork and Kerry football clashes in Killarney.

CASHEL extended their advantage at the top of the First Division of the Munster Junior League as Clonakilty caused another shock in the Munster Junior Cup with a win over Sunday’s Well.

Any search for the vital ingredients to make a successful club starts with tomorrow’s Munster Club SFC finalists. Tony Leen examines Dr Crokes’ recipe for success as they prepare to meet the ace of clubs

TAOISEACH Brian Cowen and his wife Mary Molloy were among several hundred people who sympathised with Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin and his family last night as they began the heartbreaking process of saying goodbye to their beloved Léana.

CORK’S pursuit of All-Ireland glory has frequently had a miserable outcome in recent seasons but rewriting that script last Sunday afternoon did not provoke wild euphoria.

FIRST things first. Jimmy McGuinness is chatting idly about his playing days in Donegal when he casually remarks in a thick north-western accent that he’s “a half Kerryman”.

IT’S going to be a major talking point in GAA circles throughout the country – who was the best footballer who never won an All Ireland senior medal?

JOHN GARDINER believes Cork GAA has been crying out for the establishment of schools of excellence and under-age development squads.

WEDNESDAY lunchtime in Cork IT and in Paul Kerrigan’s sporting life, success screams from everywhere.

ONE of the important points of discussion between the AFL and the GAA in Australia concerned the active recruitment of Gaelic players to the AFL.

DAVID NIBLOCK stops momentarily mid sentence as he reflects on being picked to lead the Cork attack in tomorrow’s Munster SFC semi-final against Limerick.

NEMO RANGERS had lost two All-Ireland Club finals in-a-row and fear of losing a third was uppermost in their minds as timed ticked away against Crossmolina in the 2004 decider.

NEMO RANGERS will not be dangerously undercooked going into Sunday’s AIB All-Ireland club semi-final against Antrim’s St Gall’s, according to midfielder Maurice McCarthy.

KANTURK kept their hopes of a place in the play-offs for the Heineken Munster Junior League title alive with a deserved 24-7 victory over St Mary’s at Corbally.

FORMER Cork football star Colin Corkery has finally called it a day after a career that saw him win numerous honours in the game, but no All-Ireland senior medal.

AIB are to launch a marketing drive to enhance the profile of the club championships provincially to match the popularity of the competitions at national level.

The GAA and hurling sponsors Guinness could be about to launch an investigation after two Cork hurlers were seen to sport advertisements on their boots on Sunday.

KILKENNY manager Brian Cody is philosophical about the mini-injury crisis that has befallen his team ahead of Sunday week’s All-Ireland hurling quarter-final clash against Limerick.

Cork get their Munster football championship campaign under way today with a trip to Ennis to face Clare, who have already an outing under their belts.

Cork boss Billy Morgan has handed senior championship debuts to James Masters, John Hayes and Fintan Gould for Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final against Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis.

JAMES MASTERS, John Hayes and Fintan Goold will make their senior championship debuts as Cork throw down the gauntlet to Clare in Sunday’s Bank of Ireland, Munster football semi-final at Cusack Park, Ennis.

In keeping with what has gone on in recent years, Seandun go into this Cork County SFC game against Muskerry at Páirc Uí Rinn, 8pm, with little or no preparation.

Munster's traditional big guns, Cork and Kerry, face off in the opening match of the 2005 National Football League tonight under lights at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Cork boss Billy Morgan has retained just six of the players who started in last season's championship defeat by Fermanagh for Friday night's opening National League game at Páirc Ui Rinn against defending league and All-Ireland champions Kerry.

CORK selectors have retained just six of the players who figured in last season’s championship defeat by Fermanagh for their opening televised game under lights in the NFL League game at Pairc Ui Rinn against All-Ireland champions Kerry on Friday.