Corofin coasted to a third All-Ireland crown in five years, the current kingpins of club football totally outclassing a frustrated Dr Crokes side.

Provincial championship victories for Cork clubs over Kerry are infrequent enough for yesterday’s Munster Club SFC final to be toasted beyond the confines of Nemo Rangers’ expansive Trabeg base. But giddy suggestions their 0-16 to 0-11 victory over Dr Crokes may be the trigger for a Cork football resurgence might be stretching the point some.

Nemo Rangers (Cork) 0-16 Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-11: What should have been a landslide was still a landmark victory for Nemo Rangers. Few teams don’t regret spurning six goal chances against reigning All-Ireland champions but then Nemo have long been a different breed.

Dr Crokes managed to grind out a comeback win after being reduced to 14-men for most of the second-half of their Munster Club SFC quarter-final in Clonmel.

If recent games are anything to go by, then Micheál Burns will be the first Crokes sub called down from the stand tomorrow. Jordan Kiely will follow shortly after, with Tony Brosnan not far behind.

Dr Crokes 4-16 Austin Stacks 0-12

Dr Crokes 0-14 Kerins O’Rahillys 0-04

Ballymun Kickhams (Dublin) 1-10 Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-9

Dank Sundays in December aren’t the stage for a carnival, but there was the faintest sense of a football freak show at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Dr Crokes 0-19 Castlehaven 0-12

Cavan dairy farmers David and Kathleen Cassidy have been named overall winners of the 2012 NDC and Kerrygold Quality Milk Awards, known in the industry as the “Sam Maguire of farming”.

Dairy farmer John Payne from Longford has won the top award in the Connacht Gold milk quality awards.

THE Ballinacourty footballers are an experienced bunch who’ve dealt with plenty of heartbreak in recent years.

THERE must have been times in recent years when Dr Crokes pondered if their luckless streak in Kerry deciders would ever cease.

HE may have been the man at the helm as Dr Crokes retained their Kerry senior crown for the first time in almost a century yet Harry O’Neill was eager to deflect praise elsewhere when reflecting on yesterday’s achievement.

THEIR pursuit over the last decade has been frustrating and fruitless but yesterday brought atonement for Dr Crokes in the form of their seventh Kerry football title.

THIS clash of the titans may have failed to deliver on the pre-match hype, but few in Killarney will be complaining after Dr Crokes defeated West Kerry in Saturday’s Kerry SFC quarter-final at Austin Stack Park (1-8 to 0-5).

MOVIE legend Maureen O’Hara celebrates her 90th birthday on August 17.

There were wins for Fiji, Italy and Samoa in the Rugby World Cup today.

Italy 36 Tonga 12

John Payne’s 35th-minute try hauled Tonga back into their World Cup Pool D clash in Canberra after Italy looked set to enter half-time with a comfortable nine-point cushion.