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.

A total of 110 days have passed since Bishopstown’s last Cork SFC game – a win over O’Donovan Rossa in the first round – and tonight’s fourth-round clash with Clyda Rovers in Páirc Uí Rinn (6.45pm).

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

Bishopstown 2-14 O’Donovan Rossa 2-11: A dominant second-half performance was Bishopstown’s passport to the safety of the last 16 of the County SFC in Clonakilty yesterday.

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.

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

A dramatic late win for Cork in Pairc Ui Rinn saw Brian Hurley fisting home a Conor Dorman cross to give Cork the narrowest of wins over Mayo in Division 1 of the NFL.

CORK 2-7 MAYO 0-12

Tyrone 2-10, Cork 0-17:

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.

Sigerson Cup semi-final

UCC secured comfortable progression to a fifth Sigerson Cup final in six years at the Mardyke this afternoon.

Cork 1-15 Dublin 0-16

Cork 1-15 Dublin 0-16

CONOR Dorman and John O’Rourke have won late call ups to Cork’s starting fifteen for today’s glamour Allianz League Divsion One opener aganst Dublin.

Bishopstown 1-09 Clyda Rovers 0-11

Bishopstown 0-11 St Finbarr’s 0-9

Cork 3-15 Limerick 0-08

These are busy times for Conor Dorman.

ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1:

Captain Michael Shields returns to the Cork side for Sunday’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Derry in Páirc Uí Rinn (throw-in 1pm).

UCC 0-10 UUJ 0-09

Cork 0-16 Kildare 1-12

Nemo Rangers 1-12 Bishopstown 1-08

Bishopstown 4-11 CIT 1-09

Ilen Rovers 0-09 Bishopstown 0-08

Nemo Rangers 3-11 Bishopstown 0-03

Bishopstown 4-07 Clonakilty 1-07

It was a long time coming, but Bishopstown’s first Cork SFC win over Nemo Rangers on Saturday night was surely worth the wait.

Coláiste Chríost Rí 2-10 Coláiste An Spioraid Naoimh 0-7

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has made three changes for Sunday’s Munster MFC final against Tipperary from the team that defeated Clare in last month’s semi-final in Cusack Park in Ennis.

Scotland 3 Wales 1

DUBLIN City Council has denied that the heating system in a Ballymun flat in which a mother-of-two died of hypothermia had been switched off.

St Mirren 4 Celtic 0

St Mirren 4 Celtic 0

Rangers 1 St Mirren 0

St Mirren 0 Rangers 0

THURLES CBS opened the defence of their Dr Harty Cup title with a comfortable victory over Coláiste An Spioraid Naoimh in the first round at Rathcormac yesterday.

St Mirren 0 Celtic 2

A PLAYER eligibility issue involving defending Irish Senior Cup champions Pembroke Wanderers threatens to overshadow the Dubliners’ quest to retain the trophy when they lock horns with Cookstown at Belfield on Sunday (1.15).

RANGERS boss Walter Smith was pleased to hold on to another “hard-fought three points” after last night’s 2-1 win at St Mirren.

St Mirren 0 Rangers3

TONY O’REILLY is investing €3 million in Providence Resources as part of the exploration firm’s flotation on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM).