Ballincollig 3-15 Carbery 1-11

Carbery 4-14 Seandun 0-10

NATIONAL CUP SEMI-FINAL:

St. Val’s 0-11 Inch Rovers 1-07

Carbery 1-10 Aghada 0-08

Cork 0-13 Kildare 1-07

Clyda Rovers 0-08 Bantry Blues 0-07

Cork 1-18 Waterford 0-9

Since 2005, any year ending in an odd number has seen Cork claim the Munster and All-Ireland junior football titles.

Bantry Blues 0-17 Kinsale 0-09

Clare 0-9 Cork 0-18

Cork 5-17 Limerick 2-08

Valley Rovers 0-12 Bantry 0-9

This year’s Elite national boxing championships are only at semi-final stage but already we know that five titles will change hands this year.

Having lost the previous three finals, Clyda Rovers must to do things the hard way if they are to reach a fourth PIFC decider in a row after they were beaten by Bantry Blues at Kilmichael on Saturday.

An injury-time point by Colm O’Neill kept last year’s semi-finalists Avondhu in this year’s Cork SFC.

ONLY 29 days have elapsed in the first month of the 2012 season and the Cork senior footballers got their hands on silverware at the Clonmel Sportsfield yesterday.

Cork boss Conor Counihan has made six changes for next Sunday’s McGrath Cup final against Tipperary in Clonmel from the side that overturned CIT in last weekend’s semi-final.

CORK easily booked their passage to the McGrath Cup final at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday, a greater intensity playing a big part in their 16-point victory over Cork IT.

THIRD-LEVEL institution Cork IT has signed an agreement with the Cork county board which will see Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s Cork senior hurling panel base their training sessions at the campus in Bishopstown for the 2012 season.

TEN MONTHS after hobbling off in Pearse Stadium with a snapped cruciate ligament for the second time in his career, Colm O’Neill announced his return to the inter-county senior stage in style yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn.

CORK boss Conor Counihan has handed out four senior inter-county debuts and brought Colm O’Neill back for his first game for the side since suffering cruciate damage last March, for Sunday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final against Clare in Páirc Uí Rinn.

A LATE point by Yvonne Twomey saw Donoughmore win the Cork Evening Echo Ladies SFC final by a solitary point in Cork IT yesterday.

CORK captain Carthach Keane has his own motivation to succeed in this afternoon’s All-Ireland JFC final against Kildare in Thurles, having had his dreams of success at this level wrecked in 2009 by injury.

ACTION aplenty in Ballingeary on Saturday, some superb football too, with Macroom finishing strongly to end Bantry Blues’ ambitions for another season.

CORK showed their style first, then their substance to dethrone All-Ireland JFC holders Sligo at Croke Park and march through themselves to this year’s final.

CORK bid to reach their fourth All-Ireland junior football final in seven years when they face Sligo in Croke Park today (5pm).

CORK edged out Kerry by two points to claim their 28th Munster JFC crown in a lacklustre decider played last night in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Before an attendance of 949, Cork’s superiority came to the fore and in truth the scoreboard at the final whistle concealed their dominance, an injury-time goal by Kerry midfielder Andrew Garnett putting a gloss on the scoreboard.

CORK boss Niall Kelleher has made four changes for tonight’s Munster JFC final against Kerry in Páirc Uí Chaoimh at 7.30pm from the team that defeated Waterford at the semi-final stage.

CORK started well and finished strongly to see their way past Waterford and into the Munster JFC final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

VETERANS, captain Graham Canty and goalkeeper Alan Quirke, have been drafted into the Cork team as the All-Ireland champions commence their 2011 campaign against Clare on Sunday.

Bantry Blues 1-11 Newmarket 1-9

UCC claimed the notable scalp of Carbery in their opening assignment of the Cork SFC with an excellent success in Cloughduv last night.

A TWO-GOAL salvo by midfielder Denis O’Sullivan propelled Carbery past Duhallow in last night’s Cork SFC clash in Cloughduv, thus securing top spot for the West Cork division in Group 1.

FORMER senior star Aodhán MacGearailt netted the crucial second-half goal that enabled Kerry to defeat 2009 All-Ireland champions Cork in yesterday’s Munster JFC semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

ST FINBARR’S are back in a senior final for the first time since 1993 following a deserved victory over favourites Carbery in an entertaining Evening Echo Cork county SFC semi-final at a Pairc Ui Rinn last night.

NEMO Rangers five-in-a-row title dream ended when they crashed out of the Cork SFC at the quarter-final stage at the hands of West Cork divisional outfit Carbery in Bandon last night.

Cork 1-13 UL 0-06

Cork 1-15 CIT 2-8

Cork 2-10 Laois 0-15

Laois Under-21 football manager Sean Dempsey has kept faith with the 15 players that beat Mayo in the recent semi-final for tomorrow night's Cadbury's All-Ireland football final against Cork (Semple Stadium, throw-in 7pm).

Cork 0-13 Armagh 0-12, O'Moore Park, Portlaoise

Cork scooped the Cadbury's Munster under-21 football title for the fourth successive year after beating a gallant Tipperary side 3-19 to 3-12 at the Gaelic Grounds.

CORK bid for a Munster minor championship double against the Kerry footballers at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick tomorrow (1.45 pm).