Nollaig Cleary leans against the dressing room wall in Caherlag, joking that a full year has passed since a dictaphone was last thrust in her direction.

Of the Kerry team which began the drawn All-Ireland semi-final with Mayo, eight had played Sigerson Cup football for UCC.

Cork SHC

Kiskeam 0-21 Naomh Abán 0-16

Naomh Abán 3-13 Glenville 2-11

Another belter of a match between these sides in Kilmichael on Saturday as Naomh Abán kicked a goal and two points in the dying embers of the Cork Premier IFC fourth round replay to win by one.

A hard, real honest all-Gaeltacht tussle in Kilmichael on Saturday, no shortage of commitment from either Béal Athan Ghaorthaidh or Naomh Abán.

They may be meeting for the first time this season but there is plenty of familiarity between Cork and Kerry ahead of tonight’s provincial showdown in Austin Stack Park.

EOIN BROSNAN spent some of the best years of his life in UCC but the Dr Crokes star admits there is no room for sentiment ahead of tomorrow’s Munster club SFC final against his alma mater.

A MORE clinical Naomh Abán edged out Carrigaline after extra-time in the Cork PIFC second round at Ovens on Saturday.

Clyda Rovers 0-7 Naomh Abán 0-4

WHEN Cork football meant royalty, Colman Corrigan manned the portcullis. The big full-back dominated the square when Cork finally gained supremacy in Munster in 1987, so you'd expect him, as a Cork selector, to be despondent in the wake of Kerry's Munster final victory this summer.

TIPPERARY have deferred selection of their team to meet Galway in the quarter final of the Guinness All-Ireland SHC at Croke Park on Sunday until the weekend.

At least two other Cork players were approached to wear branded boots in last Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling quarter final tie against Waterford.

Cork 0-11 Kerry 1-11

GAEILGE nó Béarla, Cork’s Micheal Ó Croinin is an honest man. Another player might waffle when asked if Kerry are likely to be worried by Cork’s relatively low-key arrival in this year’s Munster final. Ó Croinin doesn’t dissemble in any language.

ON a weekend when the Cork hurlers were beating Tipperary in the Munster hurling final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, there were some interesting Evening Echo Cork senior football championship clashes around the county.

Cork 0-18 Clare 0-6

Cork get their Munster football championship campaign under way today with a trip to Ennis to face Clare, who have already an outing under their belts.

Cork boss Billy Morgan has handed senior championship debuts to James Masters, John Hayes and Fintan Gould for Sunday's Munster SFC semi-final against Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis.

JAMES MASTERS, John Hayes and Fintan Goold will make their senior championship debuts as Cork throw down the gauntlet to Clare in Sunday’s Bank of Ireland, Munster football semi-final at Cusack Park, Ennis.

THE Evening Echo-sponsored Cork SFC first round got into full swing over the weekend with Bantry Blues overcoming all the odds to beat Clonakilty 0-12 to 0-10 in a disappointing derby clash at Castlehaven yesterday.

Offaly host Dublin in Division 1A of the National Football League today, but both sides are out of contention for a league semi-final place.

Billy Morgan has made three changes to the Cork side that will travel to Ballybofey to take on Donegal in their final league game.

CORK have made three changes from the team which thrashed Dublin for the trip to Ballyshannon on Sunday to play Donegal in their final league game.

Cork 0-18 Dublin 1-6

WITH a little more luck and a killer instinct, Cork’s footballers could be perched on the summit of Division 1A and not staring at the relegation zone.

Offaly 1-13 Cork 2-10

Dessie Dolan was forced to clip over an injury time point after Westmeath squandered 12 wides in their Division 1A stalemate with a lively Cork in Mullingar.

Cork have made three changes from the side that defeated Clare in the last round for Saturday's football qualifier against Fermanagh in Croke Park.

Clare 0-11 Cork 0-14

Billy Morgan's underachievers Cork take on a a re-invigorated Clare side at Cusack Park today, knowing the season is over for the losers.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie tomorrow in Cusack Park, Ennis.

COLIN CORKERY, Brendan Ger O’Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy have been given starting places on the Cork team to meet Clare in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland, All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Cusack Park, Ennis.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie on Saturday in Cusack Park, Ennis.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie on Saturday in Cusack Park, Ennis.

Kerry 0-15 Cork 0-7

Kerry 0-7 Cork 0-3

CORK supporters can expect a decent challenge from Billy Morgan’s team when they face holders Kerry in the Bank of Ireland Munster SFC semi-final in Fitzgerald Stadium tomorrow (2.15).

THE year Seamus Moynihan did his Leaving Certificate in St Brendan’s College, he had more than studies on his mind.