Brosna manager Liam Brosnan throws out words such as “mythical” and “carnival” when attempting to capture the allure of the North Kerry football championship.

The late English poet laureate Ted Hughes described salmon as “sensitive glands in the vast, dishevelled body of nature, as individual meteorological stations responding to rain, storm, and wind”.

Kerry 1-15 Tipperary 0-4

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan admits the recent floods have driven the board bonkers and estimates 95% of pitches in the county at the moment are unplayable.

Listowel Emmets 0-9 Brosna 0-6: Listowel Emmets staged a storming second-half comeback to overwhelm All-Ireland Junior club champions Brosna in a thrilling North Kerry final replay in Ballybunion on Saturday.

All-Ireland JFC final

Sean Kelly thinks it would be "a disaster" for the GAA to run off all its fixtures in the one calendar year.

Brosna reaction: Dave Curtin didn’t wait for Paddy Neilan to raise the black book, he knew his All-Ireland was over.

AIB All-Ireland Club JFC final: Brosna (Kerry) 0-8 John Mitchels (Lancashire): Jimmy Keane raced up the steps of the Hogan Stand to join his son Cillian.

Kerry’s dominance of the All-Ireland junior club football competition continued at GAA HQ this afternoon, Brosna’s impressive first-half display proving sufficient to see them past John Mitchels.

Brosna (Kerry) 1-8 Rock St Patrick’s (Tyrone) 0-7: AIB All-Ireland Club JFC semi-final: Brosna are on the cusp of All-Ireland Club JFC glory after staging a dramatic late rally to win this semi-final replay at Duggan Park at Ballinasloe.

The standard of refereeing at inter-county level came in for strong criticism at yesterday’s annual Cork County Board convention in Pairc Uí Chaoimh, with the allegation that there is now "a serious lack of application" of the rules.

Often, meetings in provincial junior and intermediate club championship clashes are trips into the unknown.

AIB Munster Club JFC: Brosna (Kerry)1-10 Millstreet (Cork) 0-8

“I hate to paint a bleak picture,” says Diarmuid Ó Se, “but I don’t have to. It paints itself.”

HE’S experienced the glamour of the inter-county senior game and has All-Ireland medals clinking in his pocket.

Light heavyweight prospect Tommy McCarthy is two bouts away from claiming an Irish title at the National Youth Championships just a few weeks after going all the way in the Ulster Senior Championships.

Ireland beat Poland 5-3 in Donegal last night to take a two-bout lead into the second leg of the senior international series on Friday evening.

Darren Sutherland and Darren O'Neill will meet in a repeat of last January's Irish senior middleweight final tonight after Sutherland advanced from last night's semi final box-off at the National Stadium in Dublin.

Irish boxers Darren Sutherland and David Oliver Joyce have both recorded victories in the preliminary rounds of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Italy.

Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.

WIZARD weaved his magic to claim Corn Na Feile at Abbeyfeale yesterday.

The O’Connor family from Saleen, Tarbert, brought off a very nice double at Ballyheigue.

WINNING an Adidas Belt at the Box Cup Tournament in Hamburg may not have compensated James Moore for the loss of his national senior crown but the performance, coupled with the defeat of his conqueror, Henry Coyle, in Helsinki over the weekend, has re-ignited his hopes of Olympic qualification.

THOMAS LEE (Oughterard) and Eric Donovan (St Michael’s, Athy), members of the Irish team for the multi-nations tournament in Cork, will be in action at the national under-21 boxing championships finals at the National Stadium tonight, while a third member of the squad, Conor Ahern (Baldoyle), gets a walkover in the light flyweight division.