Kildare have given their hopes of survival in Allianz League Division Two a timely boost with a comfortable defeat of their accommodating neighbours across the border.

Letterkenny IT’s first-ever outing in the Sigerson Cup proved to be a successful one as they easily brushed aside the challenge of Athlone IT at the home of the midlands college.

Eoin Bagnall scored eight points as Kildare saw off Laois in Portlaoise to book their place in the Leinster Minor Football final for the sixth time in seven years.

Nenagh CBS 0-20 De La Salle College 2-13 (after extra-time): Tipperary All-Ireland minor winner Jake Morris again emerged as the game changer on a gusty afternoon in Cashel yesterday.

Tipperary All Ireland minor winner Jake Morris hit three extra time points as Nenagh CBS progressed to the last four of the Harty Cup at a breezy Cashel this afternoon.

Ballyboden St Endas were made to bend low to secure a first All-Ireland final spot that looked beyond them for so much of the second half of normal time.

DCU 6-14 Athlone IT 1-7: Monaghan’s Shane Carey fired a brilliant 3-6 as holders Dublin City University made a strong statement of their intention to capture back-to-back Sigerson Cup titles for the first time.

St Loman’s (Westmeath) 2-10 Rathnew (Wicklow) 1-6: St Loman’s booked a place in the last four of the Leinster Club SFC on the back of a decisive seven-point victory over 13-man Rathnew at rain-soaked Aughrim yesterday.

Castlebar (Mayo) 3-8 Clann na nGael (Roscommon) 0-13: Castlebar Mitchels managed to keep Clann na nGael at arm’s length to set up a mouth-watering provincial final against Corofin in two weeks’ time.

Tipperary delivered a polished and confident performance to comfortably brush aside the challenge of Waterford in this one-sided Munster SFC quarter-final contest.

Tipperary 2-12 Wexford 2-15: It came too little, too late, to preserve Wexford’s place in Division 3 of the Allianz Football League but the Slaneysiders finally produced a second half to be proud of yesterday. 

louth 3-11, Tipperary 4-16:

Tipperary 2-11, Clare 1-8:

Conor Sweeney and Philip Austin scored goals in either half as Tipperary kept their slim promotion hopes alive this afternoon.

Conor Sweeney and Philip Austin scored goals in either half as Tipperary kept their slim promotion hopes alive this afternoon.

UCD 0-15 Athlone IT 0-7

IT Tralee 0-7 IT Carlow 0-10 

Armagh 2-8 Tipperary 0-13: Allianz Football League Division 3: Drama, controversy and passion enveloped the Athletic Grounds yesterday as Armagh staged a Lazarus-like injury-time recovery to snatch an unlikely victory from the jaws of defeat – and leave Tipperary manager Peter Creedon shell-shocked

Athlone IT 3-10 Trinity College Dublin 0-10

McGrath Cup semi-final

IT Tralee 4-12 Kerry 0-16: Kerry U21 selector John Shanahan has hinted that senior boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice dictated that the returning Tommy Walsh play no part in yesterday’s McGrath Cup quarter-final.

Galway 4-17 Tipperary 4-12

Tipperary 2-17 Longford 0-6

Jack Sheedy’s Longford were bounced out of the All-Ireland senior football championship by Tipperary this afternoon.

Currow 0-13 St Brendan’s 3-13 (AET)

Dublin won a second All-Ireland U21 Football Championship title in three years with a devastating attacking performance at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.

When David Power led the Tipperary minors to victory over Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh in 2009, the joyful visiting fans staged an impromptu pitch invasion, such was the rarity of the achievement.

Kildare 1-22 Westmeath 0-9

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes that his side would be unlucky to miss out on the Allianz Football League Division 1 semi-finals if they beat Cork in tomorrow’s clash in Tralee (3pm).

Tipperary 2-22 Clare 0-09

Tipperary 0-19 Waterford 2-03

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

UCC 1-14 Trinity College 1-07

DCU 2-15 Westmeath 2-9

Westmeath 0-11 Dublin 0-12

ST LOMAN’S 0-9 ST VINCENT’S 0-11

Longford Slashers (Longford) 3-13 Rathnew (Wicklow) 0-10

St Loman’s (Westmeath) 1-11 Old Leighlin (Carlow) 1-10

Mullingar Shamrocks 3-7 St Loman’s Mullingar 1-10

It was a long journey west for Mayo from Newbridge after they were annihilated by the hosts by 41 points.

Triplet sisters wrote themselves into the Ladies Gaelic Football history books in Birr last Saturday.

Louth put up a spirited display to beat Longford in last night’s Leinster U21FC quarter-final at Haggardstown.

KIERAN McGEENEY is a hard taskmaster, which is why Kildare have progressed from also-rans to consistent contenders since his arrival as manager at the end of 2007.

A BLISTERING second-half strike from Eoin O’Donnell proved the decisive score as Limerick overcame a slow start to see off Tipperary in the Vocational Schools ‘B’ inter-county football championship final at bitterly cold Mallow last night.

SOMETIMES, it seems, you can have your cake and eat it. Kilmurry Ibrickane didn’t just claim a county title yesterday – their third in four attempts — they did so on the back of one of those once-in-a-lifetime team performances when everything falls into place.

JOHN McGRATH hit 11 points as the hosts retained the Tipperary Supporters club All-Ireland U16 hurling crown with a convincing victory at Semple Stadium yesterday.