Carlow hurler Paul Coady says his team have not been treated as equals in the Liam MacCarthy Cup, and a Championship restructure should keep them in the competition.

Dublin’s All-Ireland winning captain Stephen Cluxton took the opportunity in his acceptance speech to address claims the county are buttressed by their financial clout and 1.5 million population.

Castleknock, St Brigid’s and Ballymun Kickhams all advanced to the quarter-finals of the Dublin Senior Football Championship with wins over St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh, Thomas Davis and St Mary’s Saggart, respectively, on Saturday.

Glen Rovers 0-23 Carbery 0-6: Holders Glen Rovers got off to a winning start in their Cork SHC opener at Coachford yesterday.

Ballyboden St Enda’s 2-9 Portlaoise 1-11: Not so much a game won as one frittered away.

As they started, so shall they finish.

Alan Brogan believes the recent trend of retirements by players in their early 30s and younger will continue, but the former Footballer of the Year has yet to decide if he will add to the exodus.

Alan Brogan believes the recent trend of retirements by players in their early 30s and younger will continue, but the former Footballer of the Year has yet to decide if he will add to the exodus.

Former Dublin minor and U21 manager Shay Boland is in line to replace Anthony Daly as senior boss, the Irish Examiner understands.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

Philly McMahon is the only change to the Dublin team that beat Kerry for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC final with Mayo.

The most exciting of the weekend’s six Louth SFL matches was one involving teams in the relegation zone.

James Loughrey admits he tried to keep his decision to live in Cork as quiet as possible so as to avoid a repeat of the controversy that surrounded Seanie Johnston’s transfer saga from Cavan to Kildare.

There’s any amount of ways to measure Dublin’s progress under Jim Gavin this year but one of the most obvious is to point out that the wherewithal to win a Division One league final without either Bernard or Alan Brogan on the pitch.

Alan Brogan has been ruled out of Dublin’s opening Leinster SFC match against either Westmeath or Carlow on June 1.

Donegal 0-16 Cork 1-11

THE bizarre decision to play a seven-minute game to decide which team will be relegated from the Louth IFC has been overruled.

LOUTH GAA chiefs have ruled that the remaining seven minutes of an unfinished IFC relegation play-off in September be played.

CLARE senior football boss Michéal McDermott has secured the services of renowned fitness coach Mike McGurn for the 2011 season.

FINALLY, after six long months and 11 games of chopping and changing, some tentative signs that the Dublin forward line does not consist solely of Bernard Brogan and five AN Others.

TYRONE will be playing NFL Division Two football for the first time in the 21st century next year, courtesy of a power-packed first-half display from a Dublin side playing their best football of the campaign.

GARETH SMITH insists he has no regrets about his decision to turn his back on his native Dublin in favour of Cavan, despite Pat Gilroy’s extensive sweep of the Leinster county for new talent.

NEMO Rangers five-in-a-row title dream ended when they crashed out of the Cork SFC at the quarter-final stage at the hands of West Cork divisional outfit Carbery in Bandon last night.

TIPPERARY have named nine senior panellists in their starting 15 for tomorrow night’s opening defence of their provincial crown in the Munster U-21HC quarter-final against Cork in Semple Stadium at 7:30pm.

DESPITE a comprehensive nine points triumph over Laois last weekend, the Cork senior football selectors have made a number of changes for Sunday’s NFL Division 2 clash with Wexford at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

NICHOLAS MURPHY is likely to be fit to play with Cork in Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Laois at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise. The All Star damaged a tendon against Fermanagh last week and was replaced by John Hayes.

DUBLIN manager Pat Gilroy has handed debuts to two players for Saturday’s National league Division One tie against Tyrone at Croke Park.

ALL WEEK, John Grainger has been making the calls in an effort to ensure the band of UCC hurlers will assemble in Midleton tomorrow night for the quarter-final of the Cork County SHC.

BRIAN DARBY will keep up the family tradition by lining out with Offaly against Westmeath in Saturday night’s Leinster senior football championship in Tullamore.

DISPLAYING silky skills, excellent team work and accumulating an impressive final tally, UCC issued a statement of intent to other pretenders in the Evening Echo Cork county SHC by swatting Carbery aside with remarkable ease at Cloughduv last evening.

THE Waterford team to play Cork in the Munster U21 HC final tomorrow night in Walsh Park, shows two changes from the side that defeated Limerick in the semi-final.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named their Cadet team for an upcoming international tournament and training camp in the Ukraine between May 7-13.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association (IABA) were celebrating today after winning four gold and one silver medal and the boxer of the tournament award at the Danas Pozniakis Junior Multi Nations finals in Lithuania.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association will be hoping to paint Vilnius green on St Patrick's Day after five Irish boxers marched into today's semi finals of the Danas Pozniakas Junior Multi Nations in Lithuania following impressive last eight wins yesterday.

A six-man Irish squad depart from Dublin today for the Danas Pozniakas Junior Multi Nations boxing tournament in Lithuania.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association today named a six-man squad for the Felkis Stamm Senior Multi Nations tournament which will take place in Poland later this month.

DUHALLOW advanced to round two of the Evening Echo SHC for the second year in-a-row after a comprehensive victory over Carbery at Coachford last night.

HOLDERS Cork will field seven of the squad which trounced Limerick in last year’s provincial final in tomorrow night’s opening round of the ESB Munster Minor Hurling Championship at the Gaelic Grounds (6.30).

A QUINTET of All-Ireland winning stars, Donal Óg Cusack, Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, Tom Kenny and Timmy McCarthy return to the Cork team for Sunday's crucial Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park.

NOT unexpectedly, the Cork senior hurling selectors have stuck with the same 15 which defeated Waterford in the quarter-final for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Clare in Croke Park.

CHAMPIONS Cork make two changes from the team which defeated Waterford in the semi-final for Sunday’s Munster minor hurling championship final against Limerick in Pairc Uí Chaoimh.

CHAMPIONS Cork make two changes from the side which defeated Kerry for tonight’s Munster MHC semi-final against Waterford at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (7pm).

Imokilly 0-11 Carbery 0-6

WHAT a difference a year makes. Tomorrow afternoon, Alan Brogan will line out for Dublin, not exactly a senior member of the team, but certainly as a young man with an inordinate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders.