Monaghan squeezed through to the second round of the All-Ireland SFC Qualifier series with a nervy four-point win over a dogged Fermanagh side at Clones.

Donegal wriggled free of Fermanagh’s blanket of stubborn defensive resistance to find the spaces at a claustrophobic Brewster Park and pick off sublime second half scores on their way to the Ulster SFC semi-finals.

Meath 2-12 Fermanagh 0-11

Rory Gallagher isn’t shying away from it. Five games into a division they were favourites to be relegated from, unbeaten Fermanagh took another big step towards a fairytale promotion at Brewster Park yesterday and their manager isn’t blinking at the bright lights ahead.

Ryan Lyons scored the only two points of the final 20 minutes to guide Fermanagh to their first victory of this league campaign against a woefully below-par Kildare side at Brewster Park on Saturday.

Liam McGrath pointed a 40-metre free five minutes into additional-time to gain Tipperary their first point after a hectic finish to an otherwise rather poor tie at Semple Stadium yesterday.

It was glass-half-full time for both managers after a hotly contested equalising score by Conall Jones with the last kick of the game salvaged a point for Fermanagh against 14-man Cork in Enniskillen.

Donegal sucked all the energy and drama out of Ulster final day on Sunday afternoon, strolling to a 12-point win against a Fermanagh side that never looked capable of mounting the challenge needed to upset the odds.

Fermanagh 0-12 Armagh 0-7: Where to now for Armagh and the five-year revolution under Kieran McGeeney after this limp, uninspiring, and naive performance, during which they went an entire hour without scoring from play?

Fermanagh moved up to second place in the Division Three standings — just behind leaders Armagh on score difference — followed their win over a dogged Sligo (0-13 to 0-8) at Markievicz Park.

It was a second-half cruise for Monaghan as they routed Fermanagh in an Ulster SFC preliminary round tie at Clones to set up a derby meeting with Cavan.

FBD League - Mayo 1-12 NUI Galway 1-10: Late frees from goalkeeper Rob Hennelly and Kevin McLoughlin helped new Mayo manager Stephen Rochford get off to a winning start against the students of NUI Galway in Castlebar.

St Mary’s College 1-10 NUI Galway 1-7

Sligo IT 0-8 NUIG 0-8

NUI Galway 0-10 Roscommon 0-09: Roscommon manager John Evans felt NUI Galway showed more resolve as the Galway students edged a tempestuous affair at Ballyforan.

FBD Connacht League: Mayo 1-13 NUI Galway 1-11

Laois 1-19 Fermanagh 2-15

Laois 1-19 Fermanagh 2-15

Kildare manager Jason Ryan retains faith in the black-card rule, but insists consistency of its application remains the most important factor.

Antrim won a high-scoring Ulster SFC clash with Fermanagh by 3-13 to 2-18 at Brewster Park.

Leinster 13 Ulster 9

Leinster 15 Edinburgh 13

Sixteen seasons of professional rugby. A grand total of 286 games for Leinster, Leicester and Ireland. The only man to captain three Heineken Cup-winning teams. Take a bow, Leo Cullen.

Plots, sub-plots and challenges abound ahead of Ulster’s clash with Leinster at the newly refurbished Ravenhill tonight with Leinster looking to cement their place at the top, but more crucially Ulster continuing their bid to claim the final semi-final berth.

RABO DIRECT PRO12: Ospreys v Leinster

Fermanagh 3-10 Offaly 2-13

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RABO DIRECT PRO12:

ALLIANZ FL DIV 3:

Leinster 28 Glasgow Warriors 25

Leinster coach Matt O’Connor has made 10 changes for tonight’s RaboDirect PRO12 clash against Glasgow Warriors at the RDS (8.30pm kick-off), where the Blue Army will be hoping to continue the excellent form that has helped them remain unbeaten in 2014.

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Westmeath manager Paul Bealin is optimistic his outfit will stay the course against All-Ireland champions Dublin on Sunday.

Dublin City University 4-15 NUI Galway 0-11

IT Tralee 0-10 NUI Galway 0-15 (aet)

IT Sligo 1-13 NUI Galway 0-8

Strange how history repeats itself.

Leinster 36 Scarlets 19

RABODIRECT PRO12:

Leinster have called upon several members of the Ireland squad who were involved in the recent Guinness series for Ireland.

Ulster 18 Leinster 24

Leinster centre Brian O’Driscoll has recovered from the back problem which kept him out of the Amlin Challenge Cup final, and takes his place amongst a strong starting XV to take on Ulster in the RaboDirect PRO12 at the RDS tomorrow (4.45pm).

Leinster 17 Glasgow 15

Seán O’Brien has been named in Leinster’s team to face Glasgow Warriors in tomorrow night's RaboDirect PRO12 Play Off in the RDS (7.35pm) despite a lingering calf injury.