James O’Donovan beat Aidan Murphy in the feature score of the Mid-Cork festival at Ballinacurra on Sunday.

Cork play Kilkenny this evening in a senior hurling challenge in Páirc Uí Rinn (7pm), but the dominant narrative isn’t Cork’s preparations for the league final, or Brian Cody’s integration of new faces into the Cats’ set-up.

JAMES Buckley turned what looked like certain defeat into a convincing win in the last quarter of his Pool B Munster Senior Championship clash with Pat Butler at Whitechurch on Sunday.