Jackie Tyrrell has recovered from a quad muscle injury to be named in the Kilkenny team for tomorrow's Leinster SHC semi-final replay against Dublin in Portlaoise (throw-in 7pm).

Former Mayo star Aidan Kilcoyne is on the verge of an inter-county switch to London.

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

There’s nothing put on about Nigel Dineen’s fighting talk.

JOHN ALLEN will be proposed to Limerick club delegates for ratification as the county’s next senior hurling manager at a board meeting next Tuesday night.

IN the fistful of Kerry championship victories over Mayo under Jack O’Connor, the scoreline dictates this to be second only to the 2006 All-Ireland final win.

IN the aftermath of the 2006 All-Ireland, Jack O’Connor presented himself in the Mayo dressing room and told of how the year of soul-searching and hurt endured by Kerry since the previous September’s defeat to Tyrone had been a greater motivation than the heart-ache of Mayo’s 55-year quest for Sam Maguire.

THOMAS CORCORAN kept Roscommon in line for a repeat of their 2006 All-Ireland title success with two spectacular free-kick conversions at Croke Park.

ROSCOMMON captured their 12th Connacht minor football title and first since winning the 2006 All-Ireland title with an easy win over a very disappointing Galway yesterday.

KILKENNY defensive duo Michael Kavanagh and James Ryall last night denied suggestions that they have made a decision to retire from inter-county hurling.

LONG-SERVING Kilkenny hurling defensive pair Michael Kavanagh and James Ryall have brought their inter-county careers to a close in the wake of last Sunday’s All-Ireland final defeat to Tipperary.

Roscommon manager Fergal O'Donnell compared yesterday's Connacht SFC final success to an All-Ireland win, when reflecting on what it means for the county's players and supporters.

All-Ireland SFC Connacht final

IT WAS the fairytale story of the 2007 season but not everyone was overjoyed by the pictures of Eamonn O’Hara waving the Nestor Cup about in joyous celebration in one of the Dr Hyde Park dressing rooms.

AIDAN O’MAHONY’S decision to quit the Kerry panel is not a permanent one, Kingdom coach Jack O’Connor believes.

MONAGHAN and Mayo are through to the 2009 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies senior football championship semi-finals following Saturday’s quarter-final double header at Ballymahon GAA club in Longford.

With last week's flu bug behind them, Meath will field an unchanged team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier clash with Roscommon at Pairc Tailteann (throw-in 7pm).

FORMER All-Ireland winning defender Mike McCarthy is set end his inter-county retirement and rejoin the Kerry squad.

Mickey Moran and John Morrison have become the first managerial appointments for the 2009 campaign, even before the 2008 SFC has concluded, after the Ulster pairing were installed as the new Leitrim Senior Football management on last night.

ALL-IRELAND champions Wexford take on National League holders Kilkenny in the top game of round four in the Gala All-Ireland Camogie Championship tomorrow.

Halfway through the year and instead of the hay being saved, everything smells of roses in Tipperary. No controversy, no problem about the designated captain not making the team, no dispute over favoured players losing their places. Liam Sheedy even delivered a league title, building on his previous reputation. However, he knows his real examination as senior boss starts tomorrow in Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Jim O’Sullivan reports.

Stephen Molumphy certainly belies his years.

Details of the Cork senior hurling panel for the forthcoming National League campaign have been released and last year's captain Pat Mulcahy has not made the squad.

There were wins for the hurlers of Clare, Limerick IT and Tipperary in today's preliminary round of the 2007 Waterford Crystal Cup.

CORK senior camogie team will be under no pressure to deliver a three-in-a-row in the All-Ireland championship according to team trainer Fiona O’Driscoll.

YOU’D never think it was their 29th All-Ireland win, or that it was just three short years since Liam MacCarthy was last seen in Cats country.

Eddie Cassidy