Businesses in Cork city owe the council more than €15.1m in rates, with some €5.5m owed from 2011 deemed “irrecoverable”.

WE TEND to attach more significance to the smaller details on days like these.

Former Kildare footballer Niall Browne will make his Munster SFC debut when he lines out for Clare against Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

WAYNE QUILLINAN takes his IT Tralee players into McGrath Cup action tomorrow afternoon, fully aware that they have an array of priorities.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott is confident that the GAA’s Central Council will look favourably this weekend on their request to become eligible for the scheme which allows players to declare for the home county of their parents.

KILKENNY’S pursuit of three All-Ireland hurling crowns in the space of eight days got off to a successful start in Semple Stadium on Saturday night.

CORK are chasing their 13th Munster intermediate hurling crown when they take on Waterford in tonight’s decider at Fraher Field, Dungarvan at 7.30pm, a repeat of last year’s final encounter in Páirc Uí Chaoimh when Cork enjoyed a 5-24 to 3-9 triumph.

CORK attacker Niall McCarthy is set to make his comeback from injury in Sunday’s senior hurling challenge against Galway. The match, which is a repeat of the recent NHL Division 1 final between the counties, takes place in Castlelyons at 5pm.

PREVIEW: Cork v Galway

DOUGLAS dual player Eoin Cadogan faces a busy weekend as both the Cork senior hurlers and footballers continue their pursuit of Allianz National League honours.

THE end margin may have flattered UL slightly, as four late unanswered points added gloss to their Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-final win, and conceals a battling display by a UCC team that were light on physique and experience in comparison to their opponents.

Cork fell at the first hurdle in the Waterford Crystal Cup this afternoon, going down to a hungry UCC side at Pairc Ui Rinn.

Cork have suffered a double blow for their Munster Hurling championship opener against Tipperary on Sunday week as defender Chris Murphy and Kevin Hartnett have been ruled out.

TIPPERARY GAA officials have approved in principle the appointment of senior football boss John Evans as the county’s new director of Gaelic Football.

JOE JORDAN of Blarney makes his senior debut as Cork take on All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in the Allianz NHL at Nowlan Park in Denis Walsh’s first match in charge on Sunday.

2008 team colleagues Seán Óg Ó hAilpín and Jerry O’Connor return to the Cork colours for Sunday’s Allianz NHL clash with Limerick at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Interim Cork hurling boss John Considine has named his side to face Clare in the National league on Sunday.

TEN of the Cork team that started in last August’s semi-final defeat to Kilkenny, were named in the starting 15 last night for Cork’s NHL Division One trip to Clare on Sunday.

TWELVE months after last meeting at this juncture, UCC and Waterford IT cross paths in this afternoon’s Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final at the Clanna Gael Fontenoy GAA Club, Ringsend, in Dublin.

LAST March they produced, by common consent, a sublime classic, and in Limerick this afternoon Limerick IT and Waterford IT renew Fitzgibbon Cup battle once more.

A HECTIC hurling battle in yesterday’s Fitzgibbon Cup clash in CIT ended with the home side thankful to Cathal Naughton’s second-half intervention for settling the issue.

UCC 0-16 GMIT 3-5

THE 2008 Cork hurling panel last night listed a litany of complaints from Gerald McCarthy’s two-year reign of management.

THE younger members of the 2008 Cork panel last night rejected suggestions they are being pressurised by older squad members into not playing under Gerald McCarthy.

Waterford 3-11 IT Tralee 3-09

ALL WEEK, John Grainger has been making the calls in an effort to ensure the band of UCC hurlers will assemble in Midleton tomorrow night for the quarter-final of the Cork County SHC.

DISPLAYING silky skills, excellent team work and accumulating an impressive final tally, UCC issued a statement of intent to other pretenders in the Evening Echo Cork county SHC by swatting Carbery aside with remarkable ease at Cloughduv last evening.

PAUDIE O’SULLIVAN, younger brother of full-back Diarmuid, will make his first start in this season’s League when Cork take on Galway in the semi-final at the Limerick Gaelic Grounds on Sunday.

Cork have made a massive 10 changes in personnel for their placement match against Waterford in the National Hurling League this weekend.

Cork hurlers will intensify their preparations for the year’s opening competitive game against Dublin on March 9 with another challenge match on Wednesday against Limerick in Newtownshandrum at 8pm.

Cork 3-16 Waterford 3-16

Corner backs Shane O'Neill and Brian Murphy, as well as midfielder Tom Kenny, have been recalled to the Cork team for Sunday's All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Waterford at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

With their suspensions having expired last weekend, the 'Semplegate' trio of Donal Og Cusack, Diarmuid O'Sullivan and Sean Og O hAilpin have been recalled to the Cork team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC qualifier against Dublin (Parnell Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

Owing to the suspensions handed down by the GAA's Central Hearings Committee yesterday, Cork have made three enforced changes and one positional switch to their side for Sunday's Munster SHC semi-final against Waterford (Semple Stadium, throw-in 4pm).

DESPITE the disciplinary upheaval surrounding three key players, Cork’s hurling management pressed ahead last night with their selection for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final against Waterford in Thurles.