Cork All-Ireland winner Joe Deane on his grip and the art of free-taking.

The GAA’s National Hurling and Camogie Development Provincial Workshops have been confirmed for this summer with sessions planned in all four provinces.

The Imokilly press evening was winding down when the division’s successes of the nineties were recalled.

The art of goalscoring — from Cork’s old machine-gun fire to the heavy artillery of Tipperary — and the free spirits like Lar Corbett are in danger of being drowned in a sea of points. What to do? Change the sliotar? Award four points for the goal? Enda McEvoy reports

Dreams do come true. 19 years ago, Seamus Harnedy thought he was in dreamland lining up for a picture with the Munster Hurling championship trophy beside his local Killeagh heroes, Mark Landers and Joe Deane.

I was on co-commentary duty with RTÉ yesterday for the game in Limerick, which the Treaty won impressively. As a result I had to make do with watching the Cork-Clare game on TV, writes Donal O’Grady.

Cork 2-23 Clare 1-21: Is nostalgia ever justified?

The walls outside Mr Murphy’s classroom are postered with newspaper cuttings.

She has overcome obstacles, from shyness to cancer to advancing in the once male-dominated bastion of the GAA committee room. So thriving as the first female chair of Cork County Board won’t faze Tracey Kennedy. But she does want to represent females in the GAA and be an effective voice for inclusiveness and change...

Of the many great crimes that befell the last century, Ultravox’s Vienna being kept off the top of the UK single charts by Joe Dolce’s Shaddaup You Face in 1981 stands most unashamedly among them.

Cork will start four U21s in today’s Munster SHC clash with Tipperary. How much of a step is it, to go from underage hurling to the big show? asks Michael Moynihan.

The summer of 1990 is fondly recalled in Ireland by those of a certain age, and especially so in Cork.

Bishopstown 1-20 Killeagh 1-11: Bishopstown retained their Cork senior hurling status in style at Riverstown on Saturday. One wondered how they were ever in this relegation decider such was their assertive and forceful play.

Cork SHC: Carrigtwohill 2-27 Killeagh 0-18

Tomás Mulcahy and Larry Tompkins have called on the Cork County Board to reinstate the jettisoned tradition of club champions nominating county captains.

Youghal 0-12 Killeagh 0-11: Drama in Ballynoe on Saturday evening, with Youghal edging this Cork SHC second round clash by the narrowest of margins, teenage sub Darragh O’Connell hitting the late, late point which defeated Killeagh in this absorbing local derby.

Second-round games in the Cork county championships are laden with enough tension, even without a local derby element.

Midleton 0-20 Killeagh 2-8: The outcome was the one most predicted, but not with the ease expected from Midleton in this Cork senior hurling championship first-round game in Castlemartyr yesterday.

It is not unusual for club and inter-county players diagnosed with chronic illnesses to first approach the GAA in seeking help, a leading official revealed.

The hurt on the faces of the Courcey Rovers players and officials told the story.

Killeagh 1-18 Courcey Rovers 0-16

Cork SHC: Na Piarsaigh 1-22 Killeagh 2-15

The good times are back in Wexford. Win, lose or draw on Sunday, the Model must now push on to the next level

Midleton 3-18 Killeagh 1-13

The last time Cork and Clare faced each other in championship with the Banner having won silverware the previous year was the 1999 Munster final.

A little over a week ago sides managed by Brian Cody and Mick O’ Dwyer respectively played out an entertaining draw in a match organised to raise funds for two oncology.

It was cold, blustery and there were showers of rain, but not even a campaigning politician could have dampened the positivity of the spirit at O’Moore Park yesterday.

Former Cork hurling star Wayne Sherlock, right, believes the Rebels won’t suffer from a lack of experience due to the retirement of Brian Murphy.

I’m living in the heart of rural Clare but I could be by the sea. Looking out my window I only see water and wind whipping up the whitecaps and it makes me wonder — will these games go ahead at all this weekend? Should these games go ahead?

Having been rejected once for being too small, Clare’s Podge Collins made one vow — if he wasn’t going to catch ball above lads’ heads, he wasn’t going to get pushed off it either. The season he doesn’t want to end takes another twist today with Cratloe in a Clare football final.

By his own reckoning, Seán Óg Ó hAilpín was probably the least skilful hurler to ever put on a Cork jersey — but has there been a more dedicated person to wear it? “That’s what made me survive,” he suggests. Now with his life thoughts put to paper, he’s ready to reflect, without bitterness, without rancour. Anyone looking for sly digs won’t find them here.

Mitchelstown 0-11 Glenbower Rovers 0-08

Sarsfields 5-12 Killeagh 2-09

For Sarsfields, tomorrow’s SHC quarter-final with Killeagh in Páirc Uí Chaoimh (2.30pm) comes just six days after last Sunday evening’s victory over UCC.

Glenbower Rovers 1-06 Lisgoold 1-06 (aet)