Five-time All-Ireland SFC winner Tommy Griffin has announced his retirement from inter-county football, bringing to an end his 12-year career with the Kerry senior panel.

The disagreement between Donegal manager Jim McGuinness and axed defender Kevin Cassidy is such that the All-Star feels that he has played his last inter-county game.

Dublin forward David Treacy is unlikely to play again in this year's All-Ireland Championship, after picking up a hamstring injury.

Tipperary forward John O'Brien should be available for their All-Ireland semi-final clash with Dublin on Sunday week.

2009 All-Star duo Tomás Ó Sé and Paul Galvin have been drafted straight into the Kerry team for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Limerick.

Mick O'Dwyer, the most decorated manager in Gaelic football history, believes that the GAA should put an end to the provincial Championships and operate an open draw system.

With no fresh injury worries, Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney has selected an unchanged team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier against Derry.

PJ Banville will make his first start of the 2011 Championship when Wexford meet Limerick in Portlaoise on Saturday night (throw-in 7pm).

The rematch between last year's All-Ireland SFC finalists, Cork and Down, has been set for Croke Park next Saturday evening.

Rory Kavanagh and Kevin Rafferty are set to train with the Donegal squad tonight as they bid to prove their fitness ahead of Sunday's Ulster SFC final.

Dublin will secure another Leinster crown but the surprise of the weekend will be this evening, if at all

Three-time All-Star Ronan Curran has been named in the Cork team for Saturday's All-Ireland SHC third phase qualifier against Galway at the Gaelic Grounds (throw-in 4pm).

Down 1-13 Clare 1-12

The versatile Bryan Cullen has been selected to captain the Dublin senior footballers for their 2011 Championship campaign.

Eircom has been announced as one of the new sponsors of the GAA's All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

It has been confirmed that young Kerry midfielder David Moran suffered a cruciate knee ligament injury in yesterday's Division 1 victory over Monaghan in Inniskeen.

NEW Limerick hurling boss Donal O’Grady last night expressed his personal satisfaction at having avoided his native Cork in next year’s Munster championship, but warned that his side face a massive semi-final challenge against Davy Fitzgerald’s Waterford.

The Dublin GAA Board Management Committee decided unanimously last night to extend their senior football management team's term by a further year to include the 2011 Championship.

ANTHONY STOKES remains in the international wilderness after the on-loan Sheffield United striker was once again left out of a Don Givens Under 21 squad.