Peadar Healy had several players to thank for securing him his first league win as Cork football manager and not surprisingly, Daniel Goulding was among the first to be singled out for praise.

Duhallow 1-11 Newcestown 0-9: Predictably, the only goal scored in yesterday’s fourth-round Cork SFC clash in Carrigadrohid proved decisive in determining Carbery Rangers’ opponents in the quarter-final would be Duhallow. And, it’s timing – 11 minutes from time after scores had been level seven times – was all the more critical for the reason Newcestown registered three wides around the same time.

Irrespective of the outcome in this evening’s All-Ireland intermediate hurling decider, Cork GAA faces a long winter of discontent.

Good Counsel, New Ross 2-12 Dublin South 0-1: Leinster Post Primary Hurling: Good Counsel, New Ross laid the foundation for victory over Dublin South in the opening half of this Leinster Post Primary SHC A quarter-final at Pairc Ui Bhriain, Carlow, courtesy of two goals from Bob Whitty.

IT Tralee recorded their first ever McGrath Cup win over Kerry, while UCC, Cork and Waterford advanced to the semi-finals after Sunday’s action.

Cork and Waterford booked quarter-final places in the McGrath Cup as they both accounted for Limerick third-level sides, following today’s preliminary round football action in Munster.

Kerry 1-11 Cork 2-18

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

ALL-IRELAND SFC RD4 QUALIFIER:

It took just a few sentences, but in those few seconds Jimmy McGuinness managed to depressingly sum up the next three months.

Colm Cooper has had to opt out of this week’s GAA-GPA Opel All Stars trip to New York due to Dr Crokes’ Munster Club SFC semi-final against Clonmel Commercials this Sunday.

Kieran McGeeney and John Doyle hang around outside the Hyde Park dressing rooms, old dogs for the hard road who won’t get too excited about the win they’ve just achieved.

Armagh 0-10 Cork 1-7

ARMAGH

Conor Counihan concedes Cork might have learned more about themselves by losing last year’s Allianz Division 1 final than beating Dublin.

LET’S get this straight from the off, the National league matters.

DUBLIN forward Kevin McManamon admits his team have almost become preoccupied with the art of tackling since last year’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Cork.

HIS clinical free-taking was the toast of Cork in last year’s All-Ireland final and last week’s Allianz Division 1 opening win over Kerry but Conor Counihan has found fault with Daniel Goulding’s game — his tackling.

All of the players who received GAA All-Star Football awards last Friday night have been shortlisted for OPEL-GPA Football Team of the Year accolades, following the announcement of the nominees today.

GREG NORMAN once said “the failure is what makes succeeding so sweet.”

AFTER prolonged absences, Alan Quirke, Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Donnacha O’Connor, Kevin McMahon and Colm O’Neill return to the Cork team for Sunday’s final game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NFL against Mayo at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

GAA President Christy Cooney expects the Allianz hurling league final to go ahead in Thurles, despite suggestions that the table toppers might get home advantage.

DOUGLAS dual player Eoin Cadogan faces a busy weekend as both the Cork senior hurlers and footballers continue their pursuit of Allianz National League honours.

DUBLIN make five changes in personnel as well as a couple of positional alterations for their NFL Division 1 clash with Mayo at McHale Park, Castlebar.

Kerry 0-16 Cork 1-9

TYRONE boss Mickey Harte has drafted Enda McGinley into his starting line-up and swapped the central defensive pair of Justin McMahon and Conor Gormley, for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Cork.

IT’S stating the obvious Cork would have preferred not to have had their anticipated place in the All-Ireland football semi-final wrapped up at such an early stage in Croke Park yesterday.

CORK captain Graham Canty has warned that Donegal’s excellent run through the qualifiers makes them a dangerous proposition in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final.

They may have been workmanlike against Aghada in the last round, but Clonakilty displayed their championship credentials with a master-class in front of goal in yesterday’s entertaining Evening Echo Cork Co SFC quarterfinal at Kilmurry.

COUNTY colleagues Daniel Goulding and Donnacha O’Connor found themselves on opposite sides in Banteer last night in the Evening Echo IFC third round, and it was the Éire Óg man who came away with the bragging rights after his side won by seven points in a lacklustre affair.

REFEREES’ chief Michael Curley has insisted Rory Hickey was correct to award a Cork penalty in Sunday’s Munster SFC final and hit out at media criticism of the controversial decision.

I WAS privileged to manage the Limerick footballers for six seasons from 2000 to 2005 and the U21s for the first two years of that period.

Cork 2-6 Limerick 0-11

MICHAEL SHIELDS continues at full-back, with Ray Carey and Anthony Lynch holding down the corner-back positions as Cork announce the same starting side that defeated Armagh in their final group qualifying game for Sunday’s Allianz NFL Division Two final against Monaghan at Croke Park.

HOLDERS Derry have been dealt a number of shattering blows ahead of Sunday’s Division One Allianz NFL final with Kerry at Croke Park.

Kerry 3-14 Cork 2-13

MANY Cork fans are angry about the role – and we do mean ‘role’, as in Hollywood films – of Kerry’s Aidan O’Mahony in getting Cork’s Donnacha O’Connor red carded on Sunday. Kerry ‘great’ Dara Ó Sé is criticised for his analysis of the incident on RTÉ’s ‘The Sunday Game’.

IT WAS anticipated in the build-up to yesterday’s Munster Final that Cork would come out with all guns blazing, tear into Kerry and play with a defensive line-up to keep the Kingdom’s gunslingers at bay.

WELL beaten by Douglas in the opening round, Clonakilty got their Evening Echo Cork SFC campaign back on track with a 1-10 to 0-6 win over Bishopstown at Brinny yesterday, leaving the dual senior club now facing a battle against relegation.

Kerry 3-13 Cork 1-9

ONE night some 43 years ago a delegation was ushered into a meeting of the Kerry County GAA Board in Tralee.

Cork 1-16 Meath 0-9