Castlehaven 1-13 O’Donovan Rossa 1-10: Few clubs have mirrored the journey Castlehaven have made since their breakthrough senior title in 1989. The tiny parish with the big heart has reached another county final – this generation’s fourth in five seasons – and, it seems, their appetite for success remains undiminished.

Castlehaven are through to a fourth county final in five seasons after overcoming near-neighbours, O’Donovan Rossa, in an exciting semi-final at Páirc Uí Rinn yesterday.

Castlehaven 1-14 Ballincollig 1-11 (Cork SFC quarter-final): Expectations were high ahead of this meeting of the last two Cork SFC champions, but Castlehaven and Ballincollig went a long way towards delivering in Dunmanway on Saturday night.

Castlehaven 1-14 St Finbarr’s 1-10 (Cork SFC Round 4): Castlehaven returned to the scene of last year’s championship humiliation but, looking renewed and refocused, the west Cork men displayed their innate hunger for battle to overcome a gutsy St. Finbarr’s in an entertaining Cork SFC clash on Saturday.

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.

Sean Dineen is the surprise inclusion in the Cork senior football squad for the championship.

In a ground-breaking bid to establish a definite link between suicide rates and the recession, Cork-based researchers are to interview survivors of a potentially lethal act of self-harm.

Dank Sundays in December aren’t the stage for a carnival, but there was the faintest sense of a football freak show at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

Dr Crokes 0-19 Castlehaven 0-12

Dr. Crokes (Kerry) 0-19 Castlehaven (Cork) 0-12

Seven days after punching home the goal that won Castlehaven the Cork senior football title, Shane Nolan struck again on Sunday in Clonakilty.

Castlehaven 1-15 Dromcollogher-Broadford 0-07

Castlehaven 1-07 Duhallow 0-09

At 19, life could hardly have been any better for Brian Collins.

Castlehaven 2-09 Carbery Rangers 0-09

Cork’s U21 football manager John Cleary has been hit with a proposed eight-week suspension following Castlehaven’s drawn SFC quarter-final against St Finbarrs last month.

Catlehaven 0-12 St. Finbarr’s 0-09

St Finbarr’s 0-10 Castlehaven 1-7

CARBERY Rangers claimed the silverware in dramatic fashion in Dunmanway last night when a 1-1 injury-time blast turned the tables on their championship conquerors Castlehaven in the Cork SFL Division 1 (Kelleher Shield) final.

THE glory they experienced in the third-level arena last spring ensured 2011 would always be filled with special memories for the UCC football camp.

Castlehaven 2-9 St Finbarr’s 1-7

THEIR joyous celebrations at the end of the action in Kilmacabea on Saturday night illustrated the significance of this SFC fourth round win for Castlehaven.

ONE of Cork’s great old cinemas is set to get a psychedelic facelift as part of a campaign to save it from dereliction.

ON the back of a solid start in the Amlin Challenge Cup, Connacht return to the bread and butter of Magners League action hoping to continue their winning ways against Glasgow Warriors at Firhill tonight (7.30pm).