Coláiste Chríost Rí 0-8 St Francis College, Rochestown 0-6: While this southside derby veered more towards the tense than the exhilarating at Church Road in Blackrock yesterday, Coláiste Chríost Rí could yet look back on it as being very beneficial.

Munster chairman Jerry O’Sullivan says the decision not to invite third level teams into their pre-season competitions can be considered a success.

Members of the emergency services, who came to the rescue of scores of people in Bandon twice last December, were hailed as heroes at the annual West Cork Community Awards on Friday night.

A West Cork retail investment, previously occupied by a pharmacy has been put up for sale, with dual street access, in the heart of Clonakilty town.

The first Cork County Board meeting of the year drew a large attendance to the Nemo complex at Trabeg last night, but much of the planned agenda suffered due to extended votes of sympathy.

Dr Con Murphy was on the train with John Corcoran after Cork played an All-Ireland senior football semi-final a few years ago. The season doesn’t matter. The memory does.

Mismatches have been held up as the reason behind the decision to remove the third level teams from next month’s pre-season competitions in Munster.

Obama’s daughters famously rolled their eyes at their father’s attempts to crack a joke on stage. Dave Robbins knows how Barack feels — his daughter is 10 and already he’s been dubbed an ‘embarrassing dad’. 

Niall Moyna hailed the strength-in-depth of the DCU bench as the defining factor in their fourth Sigerson Cup win.

UCC have the possibility of making history tomorrow night when they face Waterford in the McGrath Cup final (Fraher Field, 6pm), but it’s arguably a distraction they could have done without.

The standard of refereeing at inter-county level came in for strong criticism at yesterday’s annual Cork County Board convention in Pairc Uí Chaoimh, with the allegation that there is now "a serious lack of application" of the rules.

Of the Kerry team which began the drawn All-Ireland semi-final with Mayo, eight had played Sigerson Cup football for UCC.

The decision of the GAA’s Central Council to reach agreement by email on a new interpretation of 20m frees and penalties in hurling came in for heavy criticism at last night’s Cork County Board meeting.

Cork have given short shrift to all but one of the Football Review Committee’s competition structure proposals.

During Liverpool’s glory days of the 1970s and 80s, much was made of the boot room culture, successive managers immersed in the culture of the club.

Of the 40 players who saw game-time in the 2012 Fitzgibbon Cup final between UCC and Cork IT, 13 are now part of Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling squad.

UCC 1-14 Trinity College 1-07

Carlow county board chairman Michael Meaney has revealed his disappointment that Wexford voted against their neighbours on proposed changes to the Allianz Hurling League.

Cork are set to strongly oppose any proposed changes to the way 20m frees are taken in hurling, believing such moves to be an attempted punishment to goalkeeper Anthony Nash.

The McGrath Cup will be going ahead, despite the withdrawals of Clare, Limerick and Tipperary and likely absence of Waterford.

Kiltegan qualified to meet championship favourites Baltinglass in a Wicklow SFC quarter-final after beating Éire Óg, Greystones (2-16 to 2-13) in a thrilling replay at Aughrim on Saturday.

A Munster Council member has called for a change to the way the province runs its minor competitions.

More international retail chains may follow B&Q and Pamela Scott into examinership in a bid to make landlords tear up crippling rent agreements following the rescue of almost 800 jobs in those companies.

The introduction of an independent time clock for senior inter-county football championship games, which was passed at last month’s GAA Congress, will be extended to hurling matches, it has been revealed.

Taking Cork home games in the Allianz Football League outside of the city is not a catch-all fix for poor attendances, according to the county’s PRO.

Irish business groups have today welcomed the High Court's decision in today's case relating to upward-only rents.

Bewley’s Cafe has secured a landmark victory to stop its landlord hiking the rent again.

Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee has expressed disappointment at the decision of Cork County Board delegates to support only three of the 22 motions that the committee has proposed for the upcoming Annual Congress in Derry.

A convicted armed raider “touched himself inappropriately” while being interviewed by a probation officer, it emerged in court yesterday.

Dublin Institute of Technology 3-08 University College Cork 0-07

Cork senior footballer Denis O’Sullivan has applied for a transfer from Ballinascarthy to neighbouring club Clonakilty.

Only a few months into his tenure as Kerry manager and Eamonn Fitzmaurice is ready to quit. No, not his new job, which he’s thoroughly enjoying, his playing career.

A motion proposing to bring forward the All-Ireland senior finals will be brought to the GAA’s Annual Congress by Cork following Saturday night’s county convention at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Conor Counihan is to be invited to remain on as manager of the Cork senior football team, should he so wish.

Discussion of motions for this weekend’s GAA’s Annual Congress was the main focus of last night’s Cork County Board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Retailers have challenged the Government to publish the reasons why it believes there are constitutional difficulties to introducing legislation to tackle the problem of historical upward-only rent review leases.

In his Árd Fheis speech on Saturday night Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated “We had intended to legislate to end upward-only rent reviews, but this proved impossible because of constitutional difficulties”.

NEW Cork PRO Tracey Kennedy insists the fact she is the first female officer in the history of the Cork County Board should not be the focus of her election.

TRACEY Kennedy will become the first female executive officer in the history of the Cork County Board after she won the election to become the next PRO last night.