Westmeath great Dessie Dolan pulled down the shutters on his playing career on a bittersweet afternoon in Mullingar as Garrycastle exited the AIB Leinster club championship.

Louis Mulqueen’s possible candidacy for the Galway manager’s job stepped up another notch yesterday, when he guided city side Liam Mellows to their third county senior final in a row.

LIMERICK IT 1-20

Dublin 2-26 UCD 0-21: Holders Dublin completed their second successive Walsh Cup win, beating UCD at Parnell Park last night. 

A powerful first-half showing delivered Waterford a first All-Ireland U21 hurling title since 1992.

Galway 0-21 Dublin 0-19 (after extra time): On many levels Galway required this win. There was last week’s senior disappointment, last week’s minor disappointment and the disappointment suffered at this very juncture for the last four Augusts.

Cork 3-7 Galway 3-4 (All-Ireland U14): The 34th edition of the Tony Forristal tournament opened at 10am on Saturday, and 10 hours later, Cork and Galway still didn’t want to go home.

UCD 2-16 DCU 1-14: UCD eventually broke the resistance of Dublin rivals DCU to book their place in the Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals.

Kilburn Gaels (London) 0-11 Cappataggle (Galway) 0-10: AIB All-Ireland Club IHC semi-final: Kilburn Gaels remain in the hunt to become only the second London team to win the All-Ireland Club IHC crown after beating Cappataggle at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Westmeath 2-11 Longford 0-10: Two second-half goals helped Westmeath to victory over neighbours Longford in their final O’Byrne Cup group game.

O’Byrne Cup

It is a measure of the standards set by St Vincent’s that Tomas Quinn pronounced himself entirely ‘disappointed’ with their AIB Leinster club semi-final win.

Ballintubber 3-9 St Brigid’s 1-13

St Brigid’s 3-12 St Faithleach’s 0-7

Galway 1-19 Wexford 1-21

Kildare 1-22 Westmeath 0-9

Connacht 0-16 Leinster 1-23

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

Leinster 1-23 Connacht 0-16

Waterford 0-22 Galway 1-13

Connacht 1-18 Munster 0-16

Galway football has been dealt a massive blow with news that defender Colin Forde will miss their entire 2014 campaign after emigrating to England.

Queen’s University 0-13 University of Limerick 0-11

Offaly 1-13 Galway 1-14

Westmeath 0-11 Dublin 0-12

Four Roads 2-15 Oran 2-09

Galway 0-16 Waterford 1-21

Waterford swept to a first All-Ireland MHC triumph for 65 years in a wave of emotion at Croke Park.

Fermanagh 3-10 Westmeath 1-15

Fermanagh 3-10 Westmeath 1-15

Clare senior hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald will give championship debuts to four players in Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles (throw-in 4pm).

Westmeath 3-15 Carlow 1-10

Their Leinster championship opener against Carlow may be only a matter of hours away but Westmeath veteran Dessie Dolan was in nostalgic mood earlier this week as RTÉ launched its 2013 championship coverage.

Derry 1-18 Westmeath 0-15

Derry 2-17 Westmeath 1-05

Westmeath 0-17 Armagh 0-16, Mullingar

St Brigids (Roscommon) 2-11 Ballymun Kickhams (Dublin) 2-10

We could grow to like these footballers turned pundits turned managers.

Westmeath 1-10 Laois 1-8

Leinster 1-21 Connacht 1-20

St Brigid’s (Roscommon) 2-07 Crossmaglen (Armagh) 1-09

Leinster 1-21 Connacht 1-20

St. Brigids (Roscommon) 2-7 Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 1-9

Tomás Ó Sé returns to the Kerry side for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Dublin at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Westmeath 0-16 Louth 2-09

Waterford 0-16 UL 0-12 (AET)

Salthill/Knocknacarra 0-8 St Brigid’s 0-15

St Brigid’s 2-08 Padraig Pearses 0-09