Carrigtwohill 2-13 Ballymartle 1-13

Karl O’Dwyer still has the letter from Páidí Ó Sé congratulating him on his 1998 All- Star. 

Cork can’t simply expect that the system used against Clare a fortnight ago will guarantee victory against Galway in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC quarter-final, according to selector Johnny Crowley.

Last year, I was out of the country for the Munster final.

Cork hurling selector Johnny Crowley is expecting a “huge backlash” from Wexford in their first round qualifier meeting on July 4.

Cork hurlers are set to lose the services of a third player this season as Jamie Coughlan considers spending the rest of the summer in the US.

Galway captain David Collins isn’t afraid to say it — his team have suffered a collective mental hang-up in recent years.

Cork half-back Lorcán McLoughlin may miss the rest of the season following an injury sustained in a club game on Sunday night.

Cork hurling selector Johnny Crowley believes that, while the departure of corner-back Conor O’Sullivan isn’t ideal, it gives others a chance to stake a claim for a place.

The game in Croke Park hadn’t been on 10 minutes when Christopher Joyce tumbled 20 metres from his own goal, challenging for a ball with Dublin’s Liam Rushe.

Cork hurler Christopher Joyce is to miss the rest of the season after tearing his cruciate ligament in action on Saturday evening.

Johnny Crowley’s too long on the road to buy what you’re selling.

I met Jimmy Barry-Murphy underneath the stand last month in Clonmel, says Anthony Daly.

Cork will be close to full-strength for Saturday night’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A opener against Kilkenny in Páirc Uí Rinn (7pm).

Though Cork’s Waterford Crystal Cup campaign ended in defeat to Limerick, selector Johnny Crowley is satisfied the competition served its primary purpose of providing new players for the Allianz Hurling League campaign.

Waterford Crystal Cup final

Cork hurling manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy believes new coach Mark Landers will inject a new freshness to the county’s set-up.

Mark Landers was last night confirmed as the new coach of the Cork senior hurling team.

In 2001 Newcestown played Newmarket in an intermediate football semi-final replay at Coachford and, with four minutes to go, the West Cork side trailed by eight points.

Former Cork selector Ger Cunningham was last night appointed as Anthony Daly’s successor as Dublin manager, being handed a three-year term.

Kerry legend Seamus Moynihan believes the attempts of an individual to spy on the county’s training proves the importance of closed door sessions.

Record crowds descended on Athlone over the weekend, heralding a "new era" for the HSE Community Games.

The roar of 60,000 "possessed" hurling followers rolling onto your shoulders at ground level in Semple Stadium; Johnny Crowley sipping a pint of Heineken through a straw while waiting to have his broken nose attended to following the 1987 Munster final replay and Denis Mulcahy’s "bone-crunching" tackle on Colm Bonnar in 1992.

Cork senior hurling captain Patrick Cronin looks a "very doubtful" starter for Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final with Tipperary.

The availability of Cork captain Patrick Cronin for next month’s All-Ireland hurling semi-final will "go right down to the wire," selector Johnny Crowley has revealed.

Such is their unstinting grá for the old grey bowl, I half expected the Cork supporters to arrive with trowels and silver tins yesterday afternoon, ready and waiting at the final whistle to covet a piece of the Ballintemple venue.

Ballymartle 3-16 Courcey Rovers 0-15

Mount Sion’s Austin Gleeson has been a rising star of the Waterford club scene and is the now the talk of inter-county hurling.

Eoin Cadogan is unlikely to be fit for Cork’s Munster SHC opener against Waterford on May 25.

Cork hurler Paudie O’Sullivan has returned to training with the county squad, a year after suffering a horrific leg break in a club championship game.

Dónal Óg Cusack has hit out at opponents of the Anthony Nash motion, including the Cork County Board, for what he has described as “small-town politics”.

Cork hurling selector Johnny Crowley paid a glowing tribute to retired defender Brian Murphy last night, describing the Bride Rovers man as “one of the best in the business.”

Cork selector Johnny Crowley made no bones about the management’s level of disappointment with the display of the side in the second half.

Cork attacker Luke O’Farrell may require surgery on a shoulder injury sustained in the county’s opening Allianz League Division 1B clash with Limerick last month.

Cork selector Johnny Crowley has revealed how goalkeeper Anthony Nash was affected by the furore surrounding his controversial technique when taking 20 metre frees and penalties.

The Cork hurling management will not be instructing goalkeeper Anthony Nash to tailor his 20m free-taking technique until it is deemed necessary to do so.

Forwards Cathal Naughton and Michael Cussen are unlikely to be a part of the Cork senior squad for the Allianz Hurling League campaign.

Ger Cunningham has been named on the Cork management team for 2014 — despite strong speculation linking him with the vacant Limerick position.

Where once Cork could field All-Ireland fifteens without leaving the city boundaries, now the Rebel hurling strongholds are flung far and wide, from Senior to Junior, says Michael Moynihan.

We’ll be there in Croker tomorrow, like Cork, back for the first time in a while, but you can hardly say he’s new to the place.

There’s a well-worn saying — one I’ve often used – ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.

With four players — Conor O’Sullivan, Daniel Kearney, Cian McCarthy and Michael Cussen — likely to be in Sunday’s matchday panel, Sarsfields boast the strongest representation in the Cork senior hurling squad.

O’Gara helping Clare

Traditionally, Bishopstown may have been regarded as a football club, but nowadays it is the epitome of a dual operation.