STRONG, five-yearly rental increases, with the next hike due in summer, 2016, underpin the attractiveness of a bank building investment, in Cork’s redeveloped Ballincollig Town Centre.

Carbery Rangers 3-10 Nemo Rangers 0-9

The closing stages of the Cork senior football championship final seemed to pass in slow motion.

Cork SFC semi-final

Carbery Rangers 2-14 Castlehaven 1-08

A father of two has died after his tractor left the road and overturned into a field near his home.

FOR the first time since 2003, Castlehaven will contest a Cork SFC final, bridging that eight year gap in dazzling fashion at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday night.

CORK football star Daniel Goulding has been ruled out for six weeks, raising serious doubts about his chances of playing for the county again this season.

ALL-IRELAND winners Brian O’Regan and Paul O’Flynn will not be involved in Cork’s panel for the defence of their crown which begins with Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Clare in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

In the five years they’ve been plying their trade at senior level, the footballers of Carbery Rangers and Ilen Rovers have never crossed paths in championship.

Talented young forward Colm O'Neill will miss the rest of the Football League and Championship season, following a second scan on his cruciate knee ligament injury.

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork suffered a devastating blow last night when it was confirmed that key attacker Colm O’Neill has suffered cruciate ligament damage and is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines.

CORK boss Conor Counihan believes the decision of John Hayes and Kieran O’Connor to opt out of the Rebels football setup is indicative of “the enormous sacrifices” now required to compete at inter-county senior level.

CORK panellists Paddy O’Shea and Kevin McMahon have both opted of Conor Counihan’s senior football squad.

Kerry 2-11 Cork 1-11

Defending champions Kerry reached the semi-finals of the McGrath Cup, following a facile 2-18 to 0-5 victory over Limerick IT at Austin Stack Park.

CORK boss Conor Counihan will make his 2011 managerial bow in next Sunday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final against Limerick in Newcastlewest but will operate without the majority of his All-Ireland winning team for the pre-season clash.

AN inexperienced Cork outfit coped successfully without the bulk of their All-Ireland winners as they breezed past the challenge of Waterford IT in yesterday’s McGrath Cup preliminary round tie in Páirc Ui Rinn.

All-Ireland champions Cork ran out comfortable winners of their first competitive match of 2011, beating Waterford IT by 0-19 to 0-5 in the McGrath Cup.

Cork defender Michael Shields, who skippered the Rebels to National Football League honours last year, is set to miss the opening stages of the 2011 campaign due to pre-arranged travel plans.

ALAN O’CONNOR and Kevin McMahon are the only two members of Cork’s All-Ireland senior football winning squad set for action for the Rebels’ 2011 season bow in Sunday’s McGrath Cup opener against Waterford IT at Páirc Uí Rinn.

IT’S an all-city Cork SFC final, a battle between probably the two best sides in the county at the moment, as St Finbarr’s – albeit, riding their luck – wore down wasteful Carbery Rangers under lights at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday to book a final date with Nemo Rangers.

SEVEN years ago, Carbery Rangers were still trying to escape from the minefield of West Cork junior football. Now they are preparing for a historic first county senior semi-final tonight in Páirc Ui Rinn.

A MASSIVE second-half turnaround to this Evening Echo Cork SFC quarter-final at windy Bandon on Saturday saw Carbery Rangers turn a six points interval deficit into a 10-point victory with some swashbuckling football that simply blew Douglas away.

Conor Counihan has named an unchanged side for Cork's Munster Football Semi-Final replay against Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday, (throw-in 2pm).

CORK’s Munster SFC semi-final replay with Kerry will come too soon for injured veterans Anthony Lynch and Nicholas Murphy.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has made wholesale changes to his team for Sunday's Allianz NFL Division 1 final against Mayo at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

JAMIE O’SULLIVAN of Bishopstown has been named at left half back on the Cork team to play Mayo in the Allianz National Football League final at Croke Park on Sunday.

MAYO’S springtime endeavours have not been in vain, after all.

Cork 0-11 Mayo 0-16, Pairc Ui Chaoimh

WHEN their starting 15 runs out on Páirc Uí Chaoimh tomorrow afternoon, it will bring to 36 the number of players that have been afforded game time by the Cork senior football management this spring.

AFTER prolonged absences, Alan Quirke, Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Donnacha O’Connor, Kevin McMahon and Colm O’Neill return to the Cork team for Sunday’s final game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NFL against Mayo at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

AND then there were two. Survivors from the Cork forward line that started the 2007 All-Ireland football final are becoming thin on the ground after James Masters’ withdrawal from the squad yesterday meant he became the latest attacker from that day no longer involved in Cork football plans going forward.

Two security guards were recovering tonight after being shot outside a hospital in central Dublin.

NO winner in yesterday’s Evening Echo Cork SFC second round clash in Newcestown, a glorious injury-time point by Ballincollig substitute Killian Kelleher ensuring a replay.

A security man was recovering tonight after armed raiders shot him in the foot when he refused to hand over money during a hold-up on a cash delivery van.

SECURITY staff representatives yesterday expressed fears that a cash-in-transit worker could be killed if the recent upsurge in raids continued.

AFTER the dramatic outcome to their Munster final meeting, when Kerry were ambushed in the second half, we could hardly have anticipated the drama that unfolded in Croke Park last Sunday when those two injury-time goals earned Cork an incredible draw in the All-Ireland semi-final.

Influential Cork half-forward Donncha O'Connor has been cleared to play for the Rebels in this Sunday's GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final replay against Kerry, after having his four-week suspension overturned by the GAA's Central Hearings Committee (CHC) at Croke Park last night.

THE Cork team to play Kerry in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC replay in Croke Park shows one change in personnel and several positional switches from the team which earned that dramatic draw last Sunday.

THE Cork senior football selectors face welcome dilemmas when it comes to picking their team for the All-Ireland semi-final clash with Kerry on Sunday week.

Michael Shields, right corner-back in the Cork team that lost last year's All-Ireland SFC final, could be back in county colours next month after his surprise return from Australia.

All-Star midfielder Darragh O Sé has emerged as an injury doubt for Kerry's Munster SFC final clash with Cork on Sunday week.