Mallow 1-13 Bantry Blues 0-10: A crucial Micheál O’Rourke goal helped Mallow overcome Bantry Blues in the first round of the Cork PIFC at Newcestown yesterday evening.

Cork football management had to go “cap in hand” to several clubs when seeking a pitch for training during the first two months of the year, selector Eoin O’Neill has revealed.

Labour Party leader Pat Rabbitte has predicted that the election battle in Cork South West will come down to a fight between Labour Senator Michael McCarthy and Fine Gael’s Paddy Sheahan.