Graham Canty has been rated fit enough to captain Cork in Sunday's Munster SFC quarter-final against Clare at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (throw-in 3.30pm).

Talented young forward Colm O'Neill will miss the rest of the Football League and Championship season, following a second scan on his cruciate knee ligament injury.

Dublin 3-13, Cork 0-16

Defending champions Kerry reached the semi-finals of the McGrath Cup, following a facile 2-18 to 0-5 victory over Limerick IT at Austin Stack Park.

Cork defender Michael Shields, who skippered the Rebels to National Football League honours last year, is set to miss the opening stages of the 2011 campaign due to pre-arranged travel plans.

Stewart Ginn leads by two at the AIB Irish Seniors Open at Palmerstown House heading into the final day.

THE 10th anniversary edition of the AIB Irish Seniors Open, in association with Greenstar and Fáilte Ireland, will be marked in grand style with a record prize fund, a glorious new venue and a five-star field littered with former Ryder Cup players.

SCOTLAND'S Sam Torrance returns to the European Seniors Tour today looking to turn up the heat on Order of Merit leader Carl Mason of England in one of Continental Europe's golfing hotspots, the Algarve.

England's Carl Mason inched one step closer to winning a third consecutive European Seniors Tour Order of Merit title when he carded a four under par 68 after the first round of the Castellon Costa Azahar Open.

Five time British Open winner Tom Watson has taken the lead in the British Seniors Open at Royal Aberdeen.

GOOD enough to stage any event — even the Ryder Cup. That was Sam Torrance’s considered view about the Seve Ballesteros designed Heritage course yesterday, after he opened the AIB Irish Seniors Open with a four under par 68 in blustery and often showery conditions.

England's Jim Rhodes is the first round leader after the first round of the AIB Seniors Open at The Heritage at Killenard in Co Laois today.

Former Ryder Cup captain Sam Torrance is tied for the lead at the top of the AIB Irish Seniors Open at The Heritage in Co Laois today.

Athlone CC1-16 Clonakilty CC0-1

St Brogan’s 1-21 Coachford CC 2-9

Argentinean Luis Carbonetti swept to his second victory of the season on the European Seniors Tour when he claimed the Bovis Lend Lease European Senior Masters at Woburn Golf & Country Club yesterday.

IT'S little wonder golfers can't wait to reach their 50th birthday these days. Carl Mason won just twice on the regular European Tour, but when he turned 50 at the end of June last year he quickly fattened up his pension fund.

THE use of the term "hidden gem" to describe an emerging golf course is more than a little overdone. But I will risk the wrath of the reader by placing Dr Arthur Spring's creation at Bodyke in Co Clare in that category.

THE fact that it's a Cork versus Kerry showdown gives an added edge to tomorrow's Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí final between Coláiste na Sceilge and Coláiste Chríost Rí in Knocknagree.

INTERMEDIATE School Killorglin and Coláiste Chríost Rí will be at full strength for Sunday’s Irish Examiner Corn Uí Mhuirí semi-final at Carrigadrohid (2.30pm).

TOURING professionals have a reputation of seeking relief from every type of hazard in the cut-throat competition of the golf circuit but will never, ever, make a personal judgement in doubtful circumstances.

THE loss of 147 industrial jobs, in Co Kerry, with a further 119 jobs also in serious danger, was described as a major blow to the area, last night.

Ireland's Denis O'Sullivan has a one-shot lead heading into the second round of the PGA Seniors' Championship in Britain.

ENGLAND’S Carl Mason upstaged both Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson when he carded a six-under-par 64 to claim a one-shot lead at the end of the second round of the Senior British Open at Turnberry yesterday.

NEW ZEALANDER Simon Owen is setting a hot pace in the first round of the Mobile Cup at Stoke Park in Buckinghamshire by carding a five-under-par 66.

America’s Steve Stull recorded a five-under-par 67 to storm into a share of the lead with England’s Denis Durnian after the second round of the Wallonia Open at Pierpont Golf Club in Belgium.

FIVE years after he bogeyed the 18th at Woodbrook to forfeit the lead and eventually lose in a playoff to Clare's Joe McDermott, 58-year-old Australian Noel Ratcliffe at last captured the AIB Irish Seniors Open at blustery Adare Hotel and Golf Resort yesterday.

GIVEN the extremely poor record of the home players in the Irish Open on the regular tour, one might have thought our contingent on the seniors circuit would be similarly pressurised when it came to their own national championship.

COLIN CORKERY was last night fêted as the outstanding Cork sports person for 2002 at the annual Jurys Cork Sports Star awards banquet.

Young Irelands 0-17 James Stephens 0-16

The mood of the wind gods had changed for the penultimate day of Ford Cork Week when they decided to give the exhausted sailors a little more wind.

Results from Ford Cork Week

Ian Stanley has maintained his effort to win the British Seniors' Open Championship at Royal County Down as he has picked up two birdies against

Just nine players finished under-par last night after the third round in the British Seniors' Championship at Royal County Down.

Bob Charles has made a bold bid to win the British Seniors' Championship for