In finals, where it’s all on the line, you want your big players influencing the game, and that’s exactly what Carbery Rangers got yesterday when they needed it.

Before making the breakthrough in the Cork SFC two years ago, Ballincollig were used to being damned with the faint praise of being a team with potential.

“In training, they’ll do anything you ask them to do. They’d go through a brick wall for you"

There were several thrilling matches in a weekend of action in Cork.

A 58-year-old man was put on a two-year peace bond yesterday after grabbing an English visitor to Cork by the buttocks as she waited at traffic lights.

A 58-year-old man grabbed an English woman visitor by the buttocks as she walked along a road in Cork City, but she slapped him across the face and he ran away.

A man has been remanded in custody in relation to an 81-year-old woman, walking along Winthrop Street in Cork City centre, being the victim of a robbery.

A raider, who held a knife to a shopkeeper’s chest, ran from the scene when the victim produced a toy gun.

A former banker, turned financial consultant, played on the worries of friends and acquaintances about the safety of banking money in Ireland in 2011 and got them to pay him €145,000 by deception.

A student advertised a room in her apartment for rental share on Daft.ie but she was sexually assaulted in a bizarre fashion by a man who spoke of bad energy in the rooms before his actions became sexual and he later plucked a hair from her head to put in his wallet.

The teenager who was the most violent in the attack on a French visitor in Cork City was later seen on CCTV giving a youth a celebratory high five and yesterday he was sentenced to two years in detention.

Cork SFC semi-final

Ballincollig 3-15 Carbery 1-11

Ballincollig 1-09 St Finbarr’s 1-08

A pair of early John Hayes goals provided the platform for Carbery Rangers to advance to the Cork County SFC quarter-finals by overcoming Ballincollig at Bandon last night.

Carrigaline are through to meet Bandon in the last eight of the Cork Premier IHC as a result of their eight point win over Ballincollig in Belgooly last night.

They battled deep into the Brinny darkness in miserable conditions on Saturday night, but, in the end, Kilbrittain proved extra special in this compelling Cork Premier IHC opening round contest, leaving Ballincollig to face a backdoor battle with Watergrasshill.

Ilen Rovers are the early leaders in Division 1 of the Cork County Football League – though only on point scored – after they were one of three two-point winners in the first round of games yesterday afternoon.

Kanturk booked their place in the fifth round of the Munster Junior Cup as Presentation defeated Newcastle West in the final of the Munster Junior Shield in what was a very quiet weekend on the junior front.

THEY suffered the dejecting experience of coughing up a five-point lead in injury-time to 13-man Castlehaven in the drawn clash last month but Ballincollig atoned for that in style in yesterday’s Evening Echo Cork SFC fourth round replay in Bandon.

A man who spat, pushed and kicked at four gardai after they arrested him for a biting a stranger’s ear has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by Judge Katherine Delahunt at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.