AIB MUNSTER SHC SEMI-FINAL:

When he was putting in top-class performances on a regular basis for Aston Villa and Ireland, Paul McGrath’s inability to train tended to attract wide-eyed wonder.

Ballincollig 1-09 St Finbarr’s 1-08

Shipping heavy sash windows across the Atlantic may not appear to be a profitable venture during a recession, but it produced turnover of €2.6m for an Irish firm which hopes to have found a niche in the US market, writes Trish Dromey

Ballincollig 2-10 Douglas 1-07

A family had to exhume the remains of a lovedone after a blunder by Wexford Borough Council on a graveyard map more than 20 years ago.

Nicholas Murphy brought the curtain down on his distinguished inter-county career with his usual unfussy style, writes Michael Moynihan

They grasped silverware again in April yet the applause did not come tumbling down from the stands to greet Cork’s third successive league title.

FORMER Cork footballer John Miskella is to make a speedy return to GAA after his retirement through injury.

A troublesome groin injury has left Cork's John Miskella with no option but to retire from inter-county and club football.

CORK footballer John Miskella has retired from inter-county and club football, it emerged yesterday.

RETAINING All-Ireland titles brings a heavy load but there was something particularly dispiriting about Cork crashing out of the championship yesterday.

CORK can’t afford to be without Daniel Goulding for their All-Ireland quarter-final, warned John Miskella.

MEA CULPA.

THERE was really no excuse for Gaelic football last Sunday.

IN THE way of these GAA things, Killarney’s street corners and snugs were more concerned with the repercussions of defeat more than the rewards of victory.

DIDN’T see that coming. Few did. Jack O’Connor made a point after this win of saying the “experts didn’t give us much of a chance”. It wasn’t that. So much more was expected from Cork but it never materialised.

THE satisfaction was clearly evident in the Kerry camp at the final whistle in Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

WHEN a player and a team have been there and done that, sometimes they need an angle to really get themselves up for a big match. Usually for Kerry, Croke Park in August is the catalyst for a mental and physical shifting up through the gears.

ON THE presumption that both Cork and Kerry are true to their selections, Eoin Cadogan will begin tomorrow’s Munster football final, like the rest of us, sitting and watching.

CHANGES? Where do you start? May 23, 1999 was when senior football began for John Miskella, his introduction as a second-half substitute a footnote to Cork’s 25-point Munster championship demolition of Waterford.

CORK footballer John Miskella believes club fixture calendars need urgent attention as players are being left idle during the summer months as inter-county championships continue to grow.

THEY spent yesterday afternoon in Páirc Uí Chaoimh but Cork’s footballers had subconsciously drifted to another stadium long before the finish of yesterday’s Munster SFC semi-final stroll against Waterford.

Cork 5-17 Waterford 2-8

Graham Kelly's inter-county season looks to be over after he was given a 10-week suspension for clashing with John Miskella in last Sunday's Munster SFC quarter-final.

CLARE footballer Graham Kelly has been hit by a whopping ten-week suspension following his late altercation with Cork’s John Miskella in last Sunday’s Munster SFC quarter-final.

THE usual cliché after a game like yesterday’s Munster SFC tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh is tougher tests ahead, so we’ll take it off the leash here for a run around.

Cork 1-23 Clare 0-11

JOHN MISKELLA is Cork’s biggest injury concern after Sunday’s league final win over Dublin, but will have to wait to assess the extent of the back problem he sustained in the Croke Park clash.

Dublin 2-14 Cork 0-21

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has acknowledged John Bannon’s successful but amended motion to take referees out of the video disciplinary process could heap more pressure on match officials to make the correct decisions.

Mayo 1-13 Cork 0-14, Castlebarr, Allianz Football League

GAA chiefs have denied official Pat Fox has been sidelined from refereeing matches for refusing to upgrade a yellow card to Tyrone’s Ryan McMenamin against Donegal last month.

JOHN MISKELLA is in line to make his first appearance for the Cork senior footballers since last year’s All-Ireland final in Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 tie against Mayo.

FORMER inter-county referee John Bannon is to make another attempt to change the controversial GAA rule which empowers the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to request whistleblowers to review disciplinary incidents and impose retrospective suspensions.

ALL-IRELAND winning boss Conor Counihan is set to stay on in charge of the Cork senior footballers for a further two years. Speculation mounted over Counihan’s future since his initial tenure officially came to an end after last month’s All-Ireland decider triumph over Down.

ST FINBARR’S proved too good for Ballincollig in last night’s Cork SFC quarter-final at Páirc Ui Rinn, winning 1-13 to 2-4, a run of late points working the oracle.

REIGNING All-Ireland club hurling champions Ballyhale Shamrocks were last night drawn to face O’Loughlin Gaels in the semi-finals of this year’s Kilkenny SHC as they chase five-in-a-row county senior titles.

CORK All-Ireland winning defender John Miskella suffered a dislocated elbow while lining out for his club Ballincollig in last Sunday’s Cork SFC 4th round replay win over Castlehaven yet could still figure in next weekend’s quarter-final tie against St Finbarr’s.

THEY suffered the dejecting experience of coughing up a five-point lead in injury-time to 13-man Castlehaven in the drawn clash last month but Ballincollig atoned for that in style in yesterday’s Evening Echo Cork SFC fourth round replay in Bandon.

LIMERICK GAA chiefs are set to appoint Mayo native Maurice Horan as their new senior football boss.

AFTER several years battling to claim the All-Ireland medal he craved, John Miskella looked to have suffered a setback on Thursday night when he was omitted from the official Cork team announcement.

CORK captain Graham Canty remain a fitness doubt for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC decider despite being last night named at centre-back in their starting 15, while fellow defender Eoin Cadogan has been handed his first senior intercounty football championship start by manager Conor Counihan.