Kerry starlet Mark O’Connor is ready to put his childhood dreams of All-Ireland glory in the green and gold to one side in a bid to become a professional sportsman in Australia.

Follow our regular updates from today’s All-Ireland MFC and SFC semi-finals in Croke Park.

Kerry have called up six of last year’s All-Ireland MFC-winning team for their Munster U21 FC semi-final in Cork on Wednesday.

Kerry 0-17 Donegal 1-10

John Brudair is set to become the new manager of the Limerick senior footballers after receiving the backing of club delegates at last night's Limerick Football Committee meeting in Adare.

It should help, living in the same house as a two-time young footballer of the year in the weeks leading up to an All-Ireland MFC semi-final. But for Cillian O’Connor’s younger brother Diarmuid, talking about football in the house has become something both brothers want to avoid.

Conor Mortimer has not ruled out a return to inter-county action, four months after sensationally quitting the Mayo football panel.

Winning and losing.

Dublin enter Sunday’s All-Ireland MFC semi-final against Kerry as warm favourites but manager, Dessie Farrell is certain his charges are in for torrid test.

Meath full-forward Stephen Coogan grabbed a sensational goal with a minute of normal time to play at Newry last night to send his side into the All-Ireland MFC semi-finals.

Dublin advanced to the semi-finals of the All-Ireland MFC following a facile 11-point victory over Monaghan at Páirc Esler, Newry last night.

Dublin U21 football star Ciarán Kilkenny will wait until after his Leaving Cert before deciding whether to accept an offer of a trial from AFL club, Carlton.

AFL club Carlton’s recruitment of underage Gaelic football stars shows no signs of abating.

Dublin GAA chairman Andy Kettle was certainly a proud man as he savoured the Metropolitans' first All-Ireland SFC success since 1995 at the Burlington Hotel last night.

SHANE WALSH fired Galway into an All-Ireland MFC semi-final with a top class second-half display against Ulster champions Cavan in the Pearse Park in Longford on Saturday.

CORK boss Brian Cuthbert has named four players who featured in last year’s All-Ireland MFC decider for Wednesday night’s Munster MFC opening round clash against Clare in Páirc Uí Rinn.

Benny Coulter has come a long way since picking up an All-Ireland MFC medal at Croke Park in 1999. Can he help Down end their wait for All-Ireland senior glory this weekend against Cork?

THE All-Ireland SFC semi-final between Cork and Dublin will captivate fans far beyond Croke Park.

CORK’S senior football championship rivalry with Dublin has been in cold storage for 15 years, but Patrick Kelly still has an experience of colliding with sky-blue forces in Croke Park to draw on.

THOSE who saw his performance that day will never forget it. The game itself is considered a classic. Many who were in Coalisland that afternoon would point to the 1989 MacRory Cup final between St Patrick’s Maghera and St Colman’s Newry as the best they ever witnessed.

ARMAGH GAA chiefs last night condemned the vicious assault on 2009 All-Ireland minor football winner Kevin Nugent in a local club match last weekend and vowed the incident will be investigated rigorously to ensure disciplinary action is taken.

GAA chiefs were left red faced yesterday after it emerged that Cork were inadvertently credited with victory in the All-Ireland SFC final against Kerry at Croke Park.

COLLIDING with a strong and forceful Armagh outfit proved fatal to Kerry’s 2009 minor football ambitions in yesterday’s All-Ireland MFC semi-final at Croke Park.

Armagh 2-10 Kerry 0-10

WITH the swine flu scares that rampaged through the Down squad two weeks ago having subsided, the Mourne County are finally able to play the last of the All-Ireland MFC quarter-finals, as they clash against Dublin in Kingspan Breffni Park this afternoon. Manager Mark Turley insists his squad are back to full health.

GAA ATTENDANCE figures for the season have exceeded all expectations, with director general Páraic Duffy indicating yesterday that numbers for the Championship have actually increased.

TYRONE 1-20 MAYO 1-15, Pearse Park (after extra-time)

TYRONE stand-in captain Ryan Pickering has been ruled out of Saturday’s All-Ireland MFC final replay.

THE GAA has confirmed that the All-Ireland MFC final replay will be played at Pearse Park, Longford on Saturday (2.30).

Tyrone 1-21 Meath 2-07

WHAT a magnificent match in Tullamore yesterday evening, this 2008 Christy Ring final.

Laois 2-12 Derry 1-15

Kerry 0-09 Roscommon 1-10

Kerry 0-14 Laois 1-4

THE chairman of the Munster Council has launched a strongly worded attack on RTÉ radio show Liveline, and its presenter Derek Davis, for their coverage of the brawl between Laois and Cork in the All-Ireland MFC.

SPECULATION that Tom Brewster might start for Fermanagh in Sunday’s Bank of Ireland All-Ireland SFC semi-final clash with Mayo at Croke Park has proved to be unfounded.

GAA chiefs have pushed the Bank of Ireland SFC quarter-finals back by a week to allow greater flexibility in their schedule.

PBC and Rockwell College combined to serve up an enthralling display of rugby in the Munster Senior Cup semi-final at Thomond Park yesterday.

HUGH KENNY has been appointed manager of the Wicklow senior football team, replacing former Dublin goalkeeper John O’Leary who held the position for four years.

THE clash of Kerry and Laois in the first of the All-Ireland MFC semi-finals at Croke Park tomorrow is the first meeting between these counties since 1996 when they met in the final.