Cork PIHC final

Ballincollig 0-13 Valley Rovers 0-8

Valley Rovers 1-19 Bandon 0-13

Valley Rovers 2-10 Carbery Rangers 0-14: IT isn’t often the sporting planets align to deliver a match climax that maintains the high pitch of everything that preceded it, but such were the delights of last night’s intense Cork SFC first round clash at resplendent Ballinascarthy.

Blackrock’s David Cashman lit up their RedFM SHL clash with St Finbarr’s on Saturday as the Rockies engineered a 16-point victory in Togher. 

AIB MUNSTER CLUB IFC SEMI-FINAL:

Valley Rovers 0-12 Na Piarsaigh 0-8

Strange having a 27-year-old being one of the elder statesmen of a club’s football team but such is the changing landscape of Valley Rovers, now just 60 minutes away from restoring their status as a senior football club in Cork.

Valley Rovers 0-13 Macroom 0-13

Valley Rovers 1-14 Kiskeam 1-07

Cork 0-13 Kildare 1-07

Valley Rovers 2-08 St Michael’s 0-12

Clare 0-9 Cork 0-18

Cork 5-17 Limerick 2-08

Cork footballer Fiachra Lynch has announced his decision to leave the inter-county panel, citing a lack of opportunities as the main reason for his departure.

There was good news for Cork football boss Conor Counihan in Saturday’s Premier IC game at Donoughmore where Fiachra Lynch showed no ill effects of the injury which limited his involvement in the National League.

Corkman Peter Creedon is expected to be ratified as the new Tipperary senior football manager next week, replacing John Evans.

Cork county board secretary Frank Murphy last night insisted that Munster Council secretary Pat Fitzgerald was misquoted in recent reports that stated he had questioned the need to redevelop Páirc Uí Chaoimh as an all-seater high-capacity stadium.

He’s survived the challenges of defenders from Ulster sides Armagh, Down and Donegal in the league this season yet it was an unusual accident with a medicine ball that saw Cork attacker Mark Collins sidelined for last Saturday’s trip to O’Moore Park to face Laois in Division 1.

Leinster Council chairman Martin Skelly feels that weaker counties — and in particular Kilkenny — should be given special dispensation to assemble squads outside of the GAA’s designated inter-county off-season.

Favourites for the competition prior to last weekend’s league openers, Cork woke on Monday to find themselves usurped in the bookmakers’ dubious meritocracy of expectation by Kerry.

Cork 0-13 Tipperary 0-6

Cork boss Conor Counihan has made six changes for next Sunday’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary in Clonmel from the side that overturned CIT in last weekend’s semi-final.

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.

THIRD-LEVEL institution Cork IT has signed an agreement with the Cork county board which will see Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling panel base their training sessions at the campus in Bishopstown for the 2012 season.

WHEN it gets to Croke Park, hunger isn’t an optional extra — it becomes the crucial ingredient that separates teams and makes the difference between progress and a season ending.

RETAINING All-Ireland titles brings a heavy load but there was something particularly dispiriting about Cork crashing out of the championship yesterday.

Mayo 1-13 Cork 2-6

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

NICHOLAS MURPHY, Tomás Ó Sé and Paul Galvin are all set to start from the off in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final double-header in Croke Park after both Conor Counihan and Jack O’Connor named the experienced figures in their respective Cork and Kerry line-ups last night.

Nicholas Murphy will start at full-forward for Cork when they take on Connacht champions Mayo at Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 4pm).

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

IF Michael Shields read the newspapers he might have something to say about what Joe Brolly thinks of Cork but he doesn’t so he’s oblivious to his team being referred to as primitive and “crash, bang, wallop”.

CORK football star Daniel Goulding has been ruled out for six weeks, raising serious doubts about his chances of playing for the county again this season.

CORK can’t afford to be without Daniel Goulding for their All-Ireland quarter-final, warned John Miskella.

CORK footballer Ciarán Sheehan will today learn the extent of an injury he suffered during yesterday’s Munster SFC final.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has announced his team for Sunday's Munster SFC final against Kerry in Killarney (throw-in 2pm).

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.

BARRY O’MAHONY is currently in the throes of his Leaving Cert, but he took time off from study yesterday to help Clonakilty through the back door and get their Cork SFC challenge back on track in an entertaining game at Ballinspittle.

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.

CORK finalised their preparations for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Waterford with a highly competitive inter-squad A v B game at the official opening of Kilmichael GAA’s magnificent complex in Annahalla.

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

Aghada 0-11Valley Rovers 0-10