Colm Collins is in his fourth year as Clare football manager. He is also on his fourth coach, leading the man himself to quip: “I must be very difficult to get on with”.

Former Cork All-Ireland winner and newly-appointed Limerick coach Paudie Kissane has produced results to prove that professional Australian footballers are leaner, fitter, and stronger than GAA players.

Paul Kerrigan doesn’t have fond memories of Semple Stadium. Mind you, he doesn’t exactly hold fond memories of Tipperary either, but it’s the venue rather than the team it houses that has caused him more grief in recent years.

Last Saturday evening when Gary Brennan stood on the steps of the Hogan Stand, it served as a reminder of another fact of the county he represents so well.

There’s hardly another GAA weekend like it for stirring so many permutations and palpitations... and exaggerations.

Cork ladies PRO Pat Culloty insists there are “no hard feelings” following Eamonn Ryan’s decision to step down as senior football manager to join Peadar Healy with the men’s footballers.

New Cork football manager Peadar Healy has no intention of opening the door to a renewal of dual inter-county players for Cork, he confirmed yesterday.

Bishopstown 1-9 Clyda Rovers 0-8: This fourth-round Cork SFC game at Páirc Uí Rinn Saturday proved an endurance test for both teams. Similarly for neutrals, with the worst excesses of the modern game in terms of ‘blanket’ covering, body-checking an obsession with hand-passing and, additionally, an undercurrent of bad feeling which saw two of seven players yellow-carded eventually shown a red card, another black-carded and several more escape censure.

Brian Herlihy has been appointed as the Cork minor football manager and his backroom team will feature a strong influence from the county’s 2010 All-Ireland-winning team.

Irrespective of the outcome in this evening’s All-Ireland intermediate hurling decider, Cork GAA faces a long winter of discontent.

It was a small thing but it told us a lot.

When Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, it marked the culmination of a $24 billion NASA space program. 

Clyda Rovers 0-12 Aghada 0-7: James Murphy gave an exhibition of point scoring for Clyda Rovers as they defeated Aghada in the third round of the Cork senior football championship at Watergrasshill on Saturday night.

Carbery Rangers 1-7 Clyda Rovers 0-8: An opportunist 45th minute goal by Declan Hayes proved the decisive score in this sterile and disappointing Cork SFC second round tie at Coachford yesterday.

Castlehaven 2-12 Clyda Rovers 0-9: Several factors combined to produce this emphatic victory for Castlehaven in Saturday evening’s Cork SFC first-round game in Carrigadrohid - primarily a significant second-half improvement which yielded two goals inside the opening ten minutes.

Cork football manager Brian Cuthbert has proclaimed himself delighted with the decision of veteran midfielder Alan O’Connor to return to the panel.

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The poor relation as far as third-level football on Leeside is concerned? Liam Hodnett isn’t biting.

The third annual Reardens Club All Star awards take place next Monday at 7.30pm, with 45 hurlers and 45 footballers in contention to be recognised for their excellence in the senior championships this season.

New Clare football coach Ephie Fitzgerald believes he is entering the Banner set-up at just the right time.

Bishopstown 1-09 Clyda Rovers 0-11

Cork SFC fourth-round replay: Clyda Rovers 1-11 Newcestown 1-9

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To prove he is good enough to play inter-county football, twice a week Shane McGrath makes the two-and-a-half-hour journey from Dublin, where he was born and where he has played his club football all his life, to Clare, the county of his parents.

Cork manager Brian Cuthbert believes the enjoyment has gone out of the game for players due to the massive commitment they have to put in.

Cork’s dual playing triumvirate have been promoted to the team for Sunday’s Munster final against Kerry.

At 27, Paudie Kissane still hadn’t played Championship football for Cork. But he retired with one All-Ireland title, two Munster crowns, three National Leagues and an All Star award. And now he’s plotting Kerry’s downfall.

Carlow football selector Turlough O’Brien has dismissed calls for a two-tier All-Ireland football championship.

Former Cork footballer Paudie Kissane has admitted that his role with the Clare senior footballers has changed his perspective on the controversial Munster championship seeding system.

Former Cork defender Paudie Kissane admitted his new role in the Clare management team has changed his opinion about seeding in the Munster championship.

Colm Collins’ appointment as Clare football manager last October garnered but a few inches of space in the national papers.

Kiltane 2-10 Clyda Rovers 0-10

Have a look back over Conor Counihan’s lengthy interview with this newspaper back in September and the mass exodus from the senior football panel over the last three months no longer seems so startling.