Glen Rovers eased into their fourth Cork SHC final in six years courtesy of this facile victory over an outclassed Carrigtwohill side.

Tomorrow at Páirc Uí Rinn (5pm), Glen Rovers face Newtownshandrum in the last eight of the Cork senior hurling championship — the city club’s first quarter-final appearance since 2016.

For long stages in this compelling Cork SHC third round in Mallow on Saturday, it looked like championship newcomers Charleville might prevail.

The managers of two leading senior hurling teams in Cork have praised GAA chiefs for their efforts in improving the plight of club players.

A rousing finish from Glen Rovers - during which they hit 1-4 without reply - saw Richie Kelleher’s charges avenge last year’s county championship exit at the hands of Midleton.

Glen Rovers 4-20 Ballymartle 1-9: Glen Rovers safely navigated their way into the third round of the Cork SHC at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

With new Cork senior football manager Ronan McCarthy being introduced to the media last Monday, attention on Leeside now turns to the replacement for outgoing hurling boss Kieran Kingston.

Eoghan Cormican looks ahead to the action in the Cork club championship this weekend.

Romantics call it the spirit of the Glen. Ian Lynam prefers a more mundane term: character.

Six days out from their first Munster final appearance in 40 years, and the Glen Rovers clubhouse is humming with activity.

It may have been the individual brilliance of Patrick Horgan which took them past Erin’s Own last month, but according to Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher, it’s been the squad’s collective commitment that has them looking forward to a second successive Munster Club Championship campaign.

Patrickswell coach Declan Fitzgerald knows a thing or two about Sunday’s opposition.

Glen Rovers 0-23 Carbery 0-6: Holders Glen Rovers got off to a winning start in their Cork SHC opener at Coachford yesterday.

Glen Rovers 0-18 Midleton 1-12: The last time Glen Rovers reached consecutive Cork SHC finals was at the end of the 1980s, when a loss in ’88 to St Finbarr’s was followed in ’89 with victory over Sarsfields.

Emerging from the Páirc Uí Chaoimh tunnel for their county quarter-final clash last September, Glen Rovers boss Richie Kelleher broke away from his squad to offer congratulations to the Na Piarsaigh management.

Glen Rovers 1-22, Newtownshandrum 2-12

Glen Rovers 3-16 Bride Rovers 3-10

Glen Rovers 0-13 Carrigtwohill 0-12 (Cork SHC): Even Richie Kelleher accepted this was daylight robbery.

Ballymartle 2-19 Glen Rovers 0-23: Ballymartle’s Darren McCarthy sent a “pick me” message to Cork senior hurling manager Jimmy Barry-Murphy on Saturday night as he inspired the Riverstick club during a stunning second-half revival against the famed Glen Rovers in round one of the Cork SHC at Páirc Uí Rinn.

Sarsfields 2-18 Glen Rovers 0-8

Glen Rovers manager Richie Kelleher says victory is imperative in Sunday’s Cork hurling decider to save the club from the downward spiral of the last quarter century.

Glen Rovers 2-11, Douglas 1-11

Clontarf 30 Dolphin 19

THEY may be out of the permanent tsb Cork County SHC, losing 2-16 to 3-8, but new kids on the block, Delanys, came of age at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday, giving champions Blackrock a searching test.

Midleton 1-13 Glen Rovers 0-14

CALLING on all their experience and brilliantly marshalled by outstanding centre-back Pat Mulcahy, 14-man Newtownshandrum edged out Midleton, 1-10 to 0-12 in Castletownroche on Saturday in an opening round permanent tsb Cork County SHC contest.