ANOTHER frustrating evening for Cork City, who once again never really got to show their full hand against AEK Larnaca, left contained by a Cypriot outfit far better than the Leesiders on Thursday night.
ONE of Cork's rising sports stars was in record-breaking form at the World Championships in London.
MAYO have recovered from the Galway loss with wins over Derry and Clare but questions remain which will need to be answered tomorrow at the Gaelic Grounds.
CORK are expected to include Eoin Cadogan in their team to play Mayo in round 4A of the football qualifiers at the Gaelic Grounds tomorrow at 5pm.
Valleys' clash with Blarney drew an incredible crowd, for a club game, of 10,749 to the stunning stadium, who soaked up the sun and the hurling on a historic occasion for Cork GAA.
THREE years on from their last championship encounter, both Cork and Mayo still have the bulk of the same players ahead of their round 4A qualifier at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday at 5pm.
AFTER a wait that felt longer than the countdown to the seventh series of Game of Thrones on Sky Atlantic, a stadium fit for a king and queen opened last night.
CORK CITY have only beaten FC Malmo and Estonia’s Levadia Tallinn, home and away, on their European adventures and they face a massive task in the heat and humidity of Larnaca and the 7,500 capacity AEK Arena in Cyprus tonight (kick off 6pm Irish time)
CORK CITY assistant manager John Cotter believes his side are as good as Cypriot opponents, AEK Larnaca and he is delighted to get the chance to prove it at the AEK Arena here in Cyprus tomorrow night (k.o 6p.m Irish time)
THERE'S something quite simple, yet magical, that captures my imagination every time I attend the Cork City Sports International meeting.
UNBEATEN Cork welter Noel Murphy will meet Julio Cesar Sanchez in his 11th pro fight at the Barclays Centre in New York on July 29.
DESPITE the huge explosion of emotion after Cork’s Munster final win, and the massive collage of colour it created, Anthony Nash still had one eye on the bigger picture afterwards.
TWO new meet records - one a Canadian national best - and a number of exciting and absorbing contests gave the local crowd plenty to cheer about at the 66th Cork City Sports.
WITH Cork hurling going so well on all fronts, it has been easier for the casual fan to focus on the positives and put the travails of the footballers out of their minds.
THERE was a natural air of relief following Duhallow’s hard earned 1-20 to 1-18 win over Bride Rovers in the Cork Senior Hurling Championship at Páirc Uí Rinn last Sunday.
CORK CITY'S Steven Beattie has urged the fans to stick with the team and keep the faith ahead of a Europa League re-match with AEK Larnaca in Cyprus tomorrow night (6pm Irish time)
THIS coming Thursday is a make or break game in so many different ways, with City on the cusp of something great if they can overcome AEK Larnaca in what will be a sticky heat in eastern Cyprus.
ABUNDANT character has been a feature of all Cork hurling teams this season and their ability to respond when danger loomed illustrates a new found confidence throughout.
FOR a club that has produced nine Olympians and four Paralympians in its 50-year history, it was appropriate that six of those were present on Saturday to cut the tape for the official opening of the Leevale High Performance Centre at Farranlea Road.
CORK hurling selector Pat Hartnett spoke of unsung heroes in Thurles last Sunday and throughout the course of the Munster campaign as he reflected on the county’s triumph over Clare.
IT was a massive win for Cork hurling. A brilliant performance. The Cork crowd lingered on the field after for almost an hour.
THE 2017-18 SuperValu West Cork Schoolboys League season will run from September until May following a decision at a reconvened AGM in Dunmanway earlier this week.
THE link between progress at development squad level and success at the top level of inter-county is a hot topic given the Cork minor and senior hurling double last weekend.
SO not the final bow in front of the Shed City fans were hoping for Sean Maguire and Kevin O’Connor, as City succumbed to their first competitive defeat in almost nine months, a scrappy and frustrating 1-0 defeat to an AEK Larnaca side who re-enacted scenes from platoon in the final few minutes, dropping like flies from a cramp epidemic that swept across the team as they clung on for a vital victory.
CORK City boss John Caulfield was understandably a little downbeat and dejected at his after-match press conference in the boardroom of the Munster FA after Cork City were beaten 1-0 at home in the Europa League.
DECCIE Dalton showed nerves of steel in a sensational conclusion to a hard-hitting Munster U21 hurling semi-final.
CORK team boss John Meyler has been through it all before as a player and a manager but surely this Cork victory in such dramatic circumstances will live long in the memory.
