In the typical nature of Mayo championship games, there was enough in their five-point win over Down on Saturday night for Mayo manager James Horan to get his teeth into when the post-match analysis starts in earnest.

Mayo got their hunt for a Super 8's place back on track after that messy Roscommon defeat in Connacht, with a typically nerve-shredding win over Down on Saturday night.

Cory Quinn (3), Paul Devlin and Barry O’Hagan all landed points late in the half to send Down into round 2 and leave the home support relieved at the final whistle.

The games will take place on the weekend on June 8-9

Kieran McGeeney savoured his first Ulster Championship victory in five seasons as Armagh manager as a manic quarter-final tie was settled in dramatic fashion in extra-time.

Emergency teams are evacuating a nearby caravan park because of the blaze at the foot of the Mourne Mountains.

Paddy Deegan has watched enough football in his life, going back to his sons’ first steps on the Downpatrick pitch, to seeing them win

Two men used a digger to remove the machine and the vehicle was then set on fire a short distance away.

The driver of a Translink bus was threatened by a man armed with a knife at the bus stop on Cairnsmore Avenue in Ballybeen shortly before 8pm.

He terrorised defenders up and own the country in his prime in the 80s and 90s but Down legend Mickey Linden proved he hasn't lost his touch during a club game at the weekend.

Over the weekend the old toxins that have, for decades, sustained tribal differences, that the great majority of people on this island have put to one side, resurfaced.

The PSNI are treating the desecration of wreaths at the site of the IRA murder of 18 soldiers as a hate crime amid reports that football fans were to blame.

Finola Neville was grinning from ear to ear and unsurprisingly so, having been a part of the Cork team that lost the last two Liberty Insurance intermediate camogie finals, and 12 months ago after a replay.

Back again. Still chasing their dream, hoping this September might bring something different.

Niamh Mallon considers herself fortunate that her day job has a direct connection with her favourite pastime.

An eight-year-old boy has died after a road collision in Banbridge, Co Down.

Tomorrow's Forklift Down Rally dovetails as rounds of the McGrady Insurance Northern Ireland Rally Championship and the Protyre MSA Asphalt Championship.

A motorcyclist who died following a road crash in Co Down has been named as Gary Bernard Hamilton.

Clare 2-17 Down 1-9

Cavan 1-14 Down 0-15

Cavan 1-14 Down 0-15

Donegal 2-22 Down 1-12

Despite playing for all but ten minutes of this Ulster SFC semi-final with 14 men, Donegal were utterly dominant and ruthless as they dismantled Down’s weak challenge at Clones.

Down 1-18 Antrim 0-14

Down 1-18, Antrim 0-14: Down are 70 minutes away from a second successive Ulster SFC final, and after this comprehensive defeat of Antrim at Pairc Esler, they will feel they can get the better of either Donegal or Derry in the last four.

The Prime Minister of Belgium is visiting Co Louth today to see for himself the impact that a hard border might have.

Mesmerising isn't the word!

A 25-year-old pedestrian has died after being hit by a car in Co Down.

Meath will ply their trade in Division 2 of the Allianz Football League next season, while Down are demoted after both recorded wins this afternoon.

Meath boss Andy McEntee expressed a mixture of delight and relief after his team boosted their prospects of avoiding the drop to division three following this polished display against fellow strugglers Down at Pairc Tailteann yesterday.

Former Down player Marty Clarke has begun a new role mentoring young Gaelic footballers identified as Aussie Rules prospects, as the AFL switches its recruitment focus away from the USA and back to Ireland.

Down took a huge step towards regaining Division One status this afternoon when they travelled to Dr Hyde Park and produced an excellent first-half performance against the home side, setting themselves up to collect all two points against a Roscommon side that played nearly an hour of football with 14 men.

Like their half-time advantage of one point, Cork weren’t in any way flattered by the final result as they dismissed Down with relative ease.

Mark Collins struck 1-5 as Cork got their Division 2 campaign up and running with a convincing display in this round two clash in Newry’s Páirc Esler.

It’s not everyone that has the President of Ireland attend their funeral, but Dr Maurice Hayes, who passed away at the age of 90 a couple of days before Christmas, lived enough for several men.

Croke Park plays host to the last two qualifiers in the All-Ireland Football Championship today.

Down midfielder Kevin McKernan was also cleared of a suspension.

After years of searching and tinkering by Pete McGrath, Peter Withnell proved the final piece in the puzzle that brought Down to the 1991 All-Ireland football title.

Down look like a team who would love to play open and expansive football. Yet they know to do so would be folly.

Aidan Carr considered walking away. Eleven seasons under his belt and the birth of his first child before Christmas had retirement playing on his mind.