Cork and Tipperary hit with €5k fines following Páirc Uí Chaoimh melee

Cork and Tipperary have each been hit with €5,000 fines arising from last Saturday week’s melee in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh. The fracas, which saw Shane Barrett and Jason Forde sent off and Alan Connolly and Willie Connors booked, occurred towards the end of the half. The fines were recommended by the Central Competitions Control … Read more

2027 top flight is looking ominously like a dry run for the Munster SHC

The halfway line has yet to be braced in the National Hurling League but there is a distinct Munster hue to the top positions in Division 1A and 1B. Sitting in fifth and sixth positions in the former, Kilkenny and Galway will rightly highlight they have played one game less than Cork, Tipperary and Waterford … Read more

Your complete guide to Cork senior hurling management changes

With the RedFM Hurling Leagues getting back underway in just over a fortnight, here’s all you need to know regarding the management teams and their changes across the top clubs for 2026. Glen Rovers have made one of the most notable tweaks, with former Cork coach Donal O’Rourke joining Tomás Mulcahy’s backroom team, as he … Read more

Cork GAA to vote against two-week inter-county season extension

Cork will vote against the proposed two-week extension to the inter-county season at Congress later this month. At Tuesday’s behind-closed-doors Cork County Board meeting, club delegates voted against the proposed changes to the GAA calendar. The 90-60 result against the two-week extension means Cork’s Congress attendees will not support the motion that favours redrawing the … Read more

Four years to flip the field

Three years of a draft-led hypothetical professional hurling world would mean that heading into the fourth season, the idea that it would still remotely mirror real life completely falls apart. The talent redistribution is too deep, and teams no longer resemble their traditional selves. Cork would be without eight of the starting 15 that played … Read more

Young gun Dara Sheedy shines for Cork footballers while Jack Leahy remains strong hurling option

John Cleary will have been delighted to depart Tullamore with another two points in the bank as it gives Cork a wonderful opportunity to push for Division 1 status for the first time since 2016. Wins on the road are rarely as comfortable as Sunday’s one against Offaly was. Cork built a healthy lead in … Read more

There may be some method to dummy-teams madness

The joy of a good bookstore is venturing in without anything in particular in mind and finding something that you had not even considered. So it was that last week’s meander into Bandon Books Plus ended with us landing on The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Re-engineered F1 into the World’s Fastest-Growing Sport … Read more