Valley Rovers 0-13 Macroom 0-13

Macroom 3-13 Glenville 1-03

St Michael’s 2-16 Macroom 0-11

Avondhu 1-11 Muskerry 0-10

Reigning Cork U21 football champions Nemo Rangers got their city championship campaign off to a winning start as they defeated St Finbarr’s 0-8 to 0-5 at Ballinlough yesterday.

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Kerry boss Jack O’Connor last night described David Moran’s second cruciate injury in the space of 10 months as a “devastating blow,”.

A staggering €1.4m could be paid out under the GAA's player insurance scheme for cruciate injuries in 2011, the Irish Examiner has reported.

A staggering €1.4 million could be paid out under the GAA’s player insurance scheme for cruciate injuries in 2011.

Paul Honohan has become the latest Cork footballer to suffer a knee injury.

Last Sunday in the Clonmel Sportsfield there was a strong De La Salle Macroom theme to Cork’s McGrath Cup success. Wing-back Sean Kiely and wing-forwards Liam Shorten and Fintan Goold are all past pupils of the school who have graduated onto the inter-county scene.

DAVID GOOLD became the latest Cork senior attacker to undergo cruciate surgery last week when he had an operation to repair the damaged ligament in his knee in Santry and his older brother Fintan has revealed the recovery of teammates Colm O’Neill and Ciarán Sheehan has fuelled his optimism as he seeks to return from a long spell on the sidelines.

CORK may be without Colm O’Neill and Patrick Kelly for Sunday’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary, and the pair could also miss the opening round of the Allianz Football League Division 1 against Armagh on February 5.

Cork's footballers have lost another forward with a cruciate ligament injury as David Goold has been ruled out for possibly the entire season.

CONOR COUNIHAN admits he can’t comprehend the spate of cruciate injuries that have hit his Cork panel.

THE cruciate curse has struck Cork footballers once again with promising forward David Goold ruled out for the 2012 season because of a knee injury picked up in training.

CLYDA ROVERS are just one game away from a third successive Premier IFC final after they overcame Macroom in a dour quarter-final at Donoughmore on Saturday evening.

ACTION aplenty in Ballingeary on Saturday, some superb football too, with Macroom finishing strongly to end Bantry Blues’ ambitions for another season.

SO is it a bird, a plane or a kite being flown by Cork coach Conor Counihan and his selectors?

NICHOLAS MURPHY could be brought into the Cork attack when they take on Mayo this weekend.

CLARE boss Ger O’Loughlin has several injury worries to contend with ahead of next Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Tipperary in the Gaelic Grounds.

Cork 5-17 Waterford 2-8

Cork manager Conor Counihan has made six changes in personnel for Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final against Waterford at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 3.30pm).

CORK boss Conor Counihan has made six changes for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Waterford from the team that defeated Clare in last month’s quarter-final.

WE TEND to attach more significance to the smaller details on days like these.

Macroom 0-7 Grenagh 0-6

IT was difficult not to draw parallels with events from last August in Croke Park yesterday afternoon.

CONSIDERING it was a league campaign that started in controversy for Noel O’Leary, the Cill na Martra man could have been easily forgiven for basking in yesterday’s victory.

CORK senior football selector Jim Nolan is confident Colm O’Neill can bounce back from his cruciate ligament injury and become a central part of the Rebels’ panel again.

CORK boss Conor Counihan believes the decision of John Hayes and Kieran O’Connor to opt out of the Rebels football setup is indicative of “the enormous sacrifices” now required to compete at inter-county senior level.

Cork 3-17 Down 0-15

CORK are unlikely to appeal Noel O’Leary’s straight red card as there appears to be no video footage of his off-the-ball altercation with Kerry forward Barry John Keane in Sunday’s Allianz League Division 1 opener.

IT’S been the most frequent fixture in the football championship over the last decade but there will not be too many survivors from Cork and Kerry’s summer clashes on show at a chilly Austin Stack Park tonight in the McGrath Cup.

WHILE the Cork team that beat Limerick in the McGrath Cup on Sunday was bolstered with the addition of a few All-Ireland medal-winners, it was still a fairly inexperienced side.

AN inexperienced Cork outfit coped successfully without the bulk of their All-Ireland winners as they breezed past the challenge of Waterford IT in yesterday’s McGrath Cup preliminary round tie in Páirc Ui Rinn.

All-Ireland champions Cork ran out comfortable winners of their first competitive match of 2011, beating Waterford IT by 0-19 to 0-5 in the McGrath Cup.

THE destination of the Cork IFC title was decided in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday by the 53rd minute penalty scored on the rebound by David Goold and the one missed five minutes later by the unfortunate Andrew O’Brien for Kildorrery.

MACROOM easily overcame Fermoy in the quarter-final of the Evening Echo Cork IFC at Páirc Uí Rinn last night.

FORMER senior star Aodhán MacGearailt netted the crucial second-half goal that enabled Kerry to defeat 2009 All-Ireland champions Cork in yesterday’s Munster JFC semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

FOUR years after they burst onto the Sigerson Cup scene with a maiden triumph, DCU confirmed their staying power as a third-level football force by claiming honours in Saturday’s decider in Leixlip, Kildare.

DCU 1-11 UCC 0-10

Kerry 1-11 UCC 0-9

THE scoreline points to an emphatic win for UCC, but it was a tough struggle before they progressed past Dublin IT in yesterday’s Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup first round clash at the Mardyke.