Cork selector Don Davis says the Leesiders’ performance in the drawn Munster final was no surprise, given how well they’d prepared.

John O’Rourke and Tom Clancy will be back in the selection mix for Cork in the Munster SFC final replay having recovered from shoulder and ankle injuries respectively.

You hit Don Davis with an opening question about what he expects from Kerry on Sunday and he volleys it straight back. "Ye’re long enough writing it and I’m long enough playing football to know that Kerry can come with whatever they want to come with," says the Cork football selector.

While allowing fringe players the chance to impress, the McGrath Cup is also fulfilling a practical purpose for Cork senior football manager Brian Cuthbert.

Former Cork football stars Tony and Don Davis will watch their sons on opposite sides tomorrow as Douglas battle O’Donovan Rossa.

Apart from county senior football champions Castlehaven, only one other club has more than one player starting for Cork in Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC round 4A qualifier against Sligo at O’Connor Park in Tullamore (throw-in 5pm).

During his Formula 1 career, Nigel Mansell earned the moniker ‘Red Five’ after the number of his Williams car and the name stuck so much that he gave it to his yacht.

Have a look back over Conor Counihan’s lengthy interview with this newspaper back in September and the mass exodus from the senior football panel over the last three months no longer seems so startling.

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert hopes his newly-appointed selectors can help bring about a new dynamic in terms of inter-county management.

New Cork senior football manager Brian Cuthbert has revealed the make-up of his backroom team for his first season in charge, bringing on board four members of the Rebels' 1999 All-Ireland final team.

A US airline captain who sprinted through the cabin of a Las Vegas-bound flight screaming about terrorists, Jesus and September 11 has been charged with interfering with a flight crew, federal authorities said.

The captain of a US airliner who had to be restrained after running through the cabin screaming appeared to have suffered a mental breakdown, passengers said.

The captain of a US airliner who had to be restrained after running through the cabin screaming appeared to have suffered a mental breakdown, passengers said today.

AIB Kerry 2-15 West Cork Garda 3-9 (aet)

IT’S a busy weekend for the Skibbereen club. Their juniors contest the divisional football championship final this afternoon against Gabriel Rangers in Rosscarbery (4.45pm) and tomorrow the seniors travel to Drimoleague to play Dohenys in the quarter-final of the county championship.

TONIGHT: SFC: St. Nicks v O'Donovan Rossa at Newcestown, 7.15 p.m. BOTH sides are without key players which should make it wide open.

St. Finbarr’s 1-11 O’Donovan Rossa 1-11

RACIAL tauntings of players is not a malaise confined to Cork.

A MAGNIFICENT goal from full- back Paddy Nealon two minutes from time gave O’Donovan Rossa a deserved draw in this highly entertaining permanent tsb Cork SFC clash at Brinny yesterday.

O’Donovan Rossa v Avondhu, Kilmurry, 8 pm