A proposal on the appointment of the next Cork County Board secretary will be circulated to clubs ahead of the next board meeting.

While the proposed changes to the county junior hurling championship were the source of much debate at last night’s Cork County Board meeting, a decision was put back until the next gathering.

Next year’s Munster minor hurling championship will be played under an amended system to remove the possibility of teams being eliminated after playing, and losing, just one game.

Tracey Kennedy is keen to ensure that she doesn’t turn out to be the only woman to sit on the executive of the Cork County Board.

Coiste na nÓg top brass are investigating the alleged racial abuse of an U16 footballer during a Cork championship semi-final on Saturday.

THE odds on Tracey Kennedy becoming the first vice-chair of Cork GAA shortened last night with confirmation that her main rival for the position has withdrawn from the race.

REBEL ÓG MONTHLY SPORTS AWARDS

Cork will not mount any further opposition to the decision to run the Féile na nGael without top-tier competitions in both 2014 and ’15.

Donal Óg Hodnett is the only debutant in the Cork side named to take on Westmeath in their Allianz Football League Division 1 opener at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday (2pm).

Cork GAA announced a series of high-profile underage appointments for their development squads at last night’s Rebel Óg awards.

Cork GAA officials are hoping to rid burnout issues among their most talented youngsters through the use of a new computer program.

Two Cork development camps have been axed over clashes with the club fixtures programme.

CORK IFC FINAL:

Top Irish boxing coach Billy Walsh fears children are being forced to choose between sports at too young an age.

The great and the good of Cork underage GAA will gather tonight for the inaugural annual Rebel Óg Awards dinner at the Rochestown Park Hotel.

One significant action taken at last Saturday’s Cork GAA convention was the retention of Rebel Óg on a permanent basis for the organisation of under-age games on Leeside.

With every underage hurling trophy comes greater pressure and expectation for the future, but Blackrock are more than happy to embrace it.

GAA President Liam O’Neill was on hand to recognise Sciath na Scol’s contribution to Cork GAA this week as the schools organisation was rewarded for more than 100 years of service with the Rebel Óg Monthly Award for June.

Paul McCarthy was appointed as the new Cork junior football manager at last night’s county board meeting in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

The chairman of Rebel Óg, the fledgling organisation that caters for underage GAA in Cork, is confident they will eradicate the “teething problems” from its first year of operations.

NEW Cork PRO Tracey Kennedy insists the fact she is the first female officer in the history of the Cork County Board should not be the focus of her election.

Bob Ryan is set to become the next chairman of the Cork County Board as he is the only candidate nominated for the position which becomes vacant at Convention in December.

MARC SHEEHAN hits you with a blizzard of statistics. There’ll be 4,200 children in action in Cork over the next three days in the 2011 instalment of Féile na nÓg, lining out for 181 teams and going into action in 40 venues.

CORK GAA chiefs have insisted that they are not going to ‘railroad’ clubs into endorsing their new strategic plan which seeks to overhaul its underage structures and resolve issues that have surfaced in conflicts in the county in recent years.

IT’S A battle of the former PRO’s as Midleton delegate Pat Horgan throws down the gauntlet to present incumbent, Bob Ryan for the position of vice-chairman of the Cork County Board in next month’s election.

CHILDREN at a Cork school are starting their lives as European citizens early, thanks to a project to teach them German in primary school.