Colm Cooper will have a scan today on his collarbone although it has already been confirmed he has suffered no break to the bone or ligament tear.

Cork football selector Eoin O’Neill has denied Ken O’Halloran and Michael Shields were dropped from the senior panel for a breach of discipline during a recent training camp in Portugal.

A look ahead to all the weekend’s action around Cork...

Cork footballer Barry O’Driscoll looks set to miss the remainder of the Allianz FL with an ankle injury.

O’Donovan Rossa 2-15 Bishopstown 1-10 (Cork SFC quarter-final): O’Donovan Rossa’s opening round defeat to Bishopstown was “a blessing in disguise”, reflected manager Shane Crowley in the aftermath of Saturday’s successful revenge mission in Dunmanway.

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.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice last night offered words of consolation to his Cork football counterpart, Brian Cuthbert, in the wake of the Rebels’ shock exit from the Championship.

Kildare 1-21 Cork 1-13: Fionn Fitzgerald has a lot to answer for.

In the eight minutes and 56 seconds he spoke to the written press after yesterday’s Munster football final, Brian Cuthbert advised on five occasions how nobody of a football persuasion in Cork should be high-fiving their way into work this morning.

They may very well consider a red carpet for Kerry’s Munster football final dugout following Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s bold decision to leave decorated stars out of his line-up.

Never mind this September. Who’ll be football top dogs at the end of 2018? And does John Evans know something the rest of us don’t?

Dublin 1-15 Cork 2-7: After a week in which Dublin’s home comforts of Croke Park were atop the pre-Championship agenda, Jim Gavin’s men made a successful 600km round-trip to the hilly amphitheatre of Cill na Martra yesterday.

A fortnight after that League final hammering, Cork get back on the horse by facing the Dubs all over again at the Cill Na Martra grounds in mid-Cork on Sunday afternoon.

Eoghan Cormican examines the contenders for this year’s Cork SFC, which kicks off this weekend at several venues.

Blanket defence? Hand-passes a-go-go? Yes, but what styles or attitudes are unique to the protagonists as they shake up for the forthcoming championship? We analyse the top 10.

Cork boss Brian Cuthbert has vowed to undertake a ‘root-and-branch examination’ of his side after yesterday’s League final defeat to Dublin.

The selection of Jamie O’Sullivan for the injured Brian O’Driscoll is the only change in the Cork senior football side for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 final against Dublin in Croke Park (4pm).

ACROSS the table is the face of modern gaelic football. The face and the physique.

The gulf in class between the top flight and the rest of the divisions has perhaps never been as wide as this year. So who exactly have been a class apart in the league of its own?

Cork footballer’s late, late win on Sunday against Mayo was a good morale boost for the men in red and white, but goalkeeper Ken O’Halloran says the Rebels are realistic about their promising spring.

Allianz FL Division 1

Tyrone 2-10, Cork 0-17:

Such is the haste from which Cork football runs away from anything current to view everything through the distorted prism of July’s first Sunday, we can summarily discount yesterday’s 11-point victory over Kerry as utterly irrelevant, says Tony Leen.

New Kerry captain Kieran Donaghy will make his first competitive start of the year in Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Dublin in Fitzgerald Stadium (2pm).

DCU 1-14 UCC 2-10 (AET): Not for one minute had Tadgh Lowe stood between the posts in either the Higher Education league or O’Byrne Cup.

Kerry’s Paul Geaney admits the hooter played a part in UCC’s Sigerson Cup victory last year. 

Today: UCC v IT Sligo, Mardyke, 2pm:

Tommy Walsh will make his first start for Kerry since the 2009 All-Ireland SFC final when he lines out at midfield against Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday (2pm).

Season two of Brian Cuthbert’s regeneration project with Cork’s footballers, and the playbook gets more voluminous by the week.

Cork 1-15 Dublin 0-16

Cork 1-15 Dublin 0-16

Sigerson Cup First Round

The potent attacking arsenal available to UCC was rolled out for all to see as they overcame the shock of an early Cork IT goal to rout their Cork rivals in the Sigerson Cup at the Mardyke today.

The potent attacking arsenal available to UCC was rolled out for all to see as they overcame the shock of an early Cork IT goal to rout their Cork rivals in the Sigerson Cup at the Mardyke today.

The third annual Reardens Club All Star awards take place next Monday at 7.30pm, with 45 hurlers and 45 footballers in contention to be recognised for their excellence in the senior championships this season.

Bishopstown 1-09 Clyda Rovers 0-11

CADBURY'S ALL-IRELAND U21FC SEMI-FINAL:

Thirty-six years old and in the form of his life, Rob Heffernan has very few complaints at present.

Cork SFC (Divisions/Colleges) preliminary round

These are busy times for Conor Dorman.

Cork’s Mark Collins feels Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 defeat to Mayo will provide a good test of character for the squad.