THE coaching of Pat Ryan has been critical to the Cork hurlers’ impressive performances in the Munster championship to date.
Cork City ... 4, Levadia Tallinn 2: CORK City had to survive a scare or two before they saw off Estonia’s Levadia Tallinn on a 6-2 aggregate score line in their Europa League action in front of a sell-out 6,000 plus crowd at Turner’s Cross tonight.
STRIKING the right balance between the team’s more experienced players and the younger guns that have been successfully introduced has been a major contributory factor in Cork’s success story this season, according to manager Kieran Kingston.
SHOULD any notice be taken of what comes to pass during the hurling league?
ESTONIA'S Levadia Tallinn will have to turn in a five star performance if they are to prevent John Caulfield’s in-form Cork City from advancing to the next round of the Europa League qualifiers at Turner’s Cross tonight (7.45pm).
WES HOOLAHAN, in his testimonial 10nth season at Norwich City, is already relishing the opportunity to work with new Canaries boss Daniel Farke, the ex-Borussia Dortmund coach.
TWO members of the Douglas Gymnastics Club in Cork were the stars of the show at the recent Gymnastics Ireland National Series Super Championships event held in the National Indoor Arena in Dublin.
CLARE captain Pat O’Connor says he wasn’t surprised to see the Cork hurlers back in the mix for silverware this season.
HUGE dedication, skill-based coaching and a wicked sense of humour... they're the vital attributes Donal Óg Cusack brings to the Clare set-up.
BEFORE the Munster Football final last Sunday, I felt Cork had a chance, if they started well, and avoided the hesitation they showed in their first halves versus Waterford and Tipperary.
KERRY'S expected retention of their Munster senior football title in Killarney on Sunday helped secure a clean sweep for the Kingdom.
BEFORE the ball is thrown in at Semple Stadium next Sunday, two of the country’s highest ranked hurling counties will be out of the All-Ireland race.
IF we’re to accept that this iteration of the All Blacks are as good a rugby team as there’s ever been, we have to consequently conclude that for the Lions to beat them 24-21 at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Saturday is a colossal achievement.
Cork's Minor hurlers had enough to push through to this weekend’s provincial final against Clare.
AFTER a week of hoping and wondering what if it all just finally clicked for Cork, in the end we got what we most feared and expected.
CORK and Tipperary minor hurlers get to do it all again tonight as 80 minutes couldn’t separate in their Munster semi-final clash last Thursday night.
A BITTERLY disappointed Cork captain Paul Kerrigan summed up the mood in the dressing-room after crushing Munster final loss, while also acknowledging Kerry were superior on the day.
Cork claimed one goal against fourth division Waterford in the first-round and it was the same against Tipperary, promoted from the third, in the semi-final.
ONCE again it will be the battle in the sky which will highly influence the outcome of the Kerry-Cork Munster football final in Killarney tomorrow, throw-in, 2pm.
WAY back when Paul Kerrigan was emerging onto the scene as a footballer of note it was fun for a while to guess the minute of the big reveal.
IN his half-time TV analysis of the Cork-Tipperary Munster semi-final, Colm O’Rourke went to town on Cork. He said that the performance was an “embarrassment” and an “insult” to the Cork jersey.
IF anything summed up the slightly bonkers rollercoaster of the Cork football experience it may have been a few Saturdays ago where we got the full monty from bad to ugly to pretty good in basically a couple of hours.
COMING home in the relative darkness from Pärnu to Tallinn, it gives one yet another opportunity to really appreciate what a special club we have in Cork City.
IT was a night of celebration for Cork City’s goal-scoring duo of Garry Buckley and Steven Beattie in windy Estonia.
WITH Billy Sheehan and, to a lesser extent, Eamonn Ryan, primarily in charge of Cork training sessions, manager Peadar Healy is in an overseeing role.
STRONG attacking options served Bandon well as they overcame Carrigtwohill to advance to round three on Saturday evening.
