Milford (Cork) 0-14 Granagh/Ballingarry (Limerick) 0-6

Fine Gael has today accused the Government of "gross ineptitude" regarding its handling of the AIB bonus scandal.

There was early cause for celebration for seven of the AIB GAA Club Championship semi-finalists ahead of this weekend's fixtures, with players from each of the clubs receiving accolades for outstanding performances in the Championship in 2009.

Tullamore man Peter Bracken has signed a four-month, contract with Newport-Gwent Dragons.

YOU’VE seen the posters.

St. Mary's College 18 Blackrock College 8, Templeville Road

WATERFORD have created hurling history by appointing joint-captains for the coming season.

Clontarf 30 St. Mary's College 19, Castle Avenue

St. Mary's College 31 Ballymena 20, Templeville Road

GALWAY club St May’s Athenry is strongly opposed to the county going into the Leinster championship next year, having unanimously rejected the proposal at a special meeting.

TULLAMORE Show, the biggest in the country, which had to be cancelled last year due to wet weather, will be held this year on August 10.

AIB CUP SEMI-FINAL, HALF-TIME:

Garryowen 8 Ballymena 3

Next Saturday's AIB League Division 1 final will be an all Munster affair as southern stalwarts of the club game, Garryowen and Cork Constitution, meet in Musgrave Park, Cork to battle for the overall title of AIB League Champions. Kick off it at 2.30pm.

The teams for tomorrow’s AIB rugby league fixtures have been announced.

CONNACHT fly-half Paul Warwick is to join Munster at the end of the season. The 26-year-old will be Ronan O’Gara’s understudy next season after agreeing terms with Kidney’s men.

The following are the draws for the quarter finals of the AIB Senior Cup and AIB Junior Cup quarter-finals that took place earlier today in AIB Bank Centre, Dublin.

The 2005 AIB Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Hurling Sevens tournament takes place this weekend at the Dublin club's Stillorgan home.

FINANCE Minister Brian Cowen yesterday said he will move in the Finance Bill to bring forward measures to punish those who facilitate white collar crime.

Mick Galwey has been unveiled as the new coach of Shannon.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was stating the obvious when, in an RTÉ radio interview yesterday, he said that breaches of the tax laws by AIB executives must be fully investigated.

The chairman of Aer Lingus, Tom Mulcahy, a former senior executive with AIB, is resigning from his position with the airline over the latest scandal at the bank.

Advertising in the national press, as AIB did last weekend, for customers to “bear with us” might give the impression that normal business was being disrupted and customers were being asked to put up with a temporary inconvenience.

A FEW years later than they would have hoped for, players from the West Kerry Gaeltacht are about to sample the wonderful experience of club football on the All-Ireland stage.

Portumna (Galway) 2-10 Dunloy (Antrim) 2-13

Clontarf 6 Ballymena 12

RONAN O’GARA has no intention of jumping Ireland’s ship for American football in the foreseeable future.

THEY are recognised as club football specialists, with an enviable record of six All-Ireland and eleven provincial titles.

IRONIC that the dawn of a new era is at night. Tomorrow night's Allianz League tie between Cork and Kerry at Páirc Uí Rinn has several appealing sub-plots, but for many of the 10,000 patrons expected to attend, watching a competitive GAA game under floodlights is the most appealing of all.

Ballymena 36 County Carlow 6

FOOTBALL dominates the AIB club championship calendar this weekend with action in all four provinces.