Before the door of Dressing Room No 3 underneath Semple Stadium’s Old Stand closed towards us, the first four of Liam Kearns’ words to his numbed Tipperary players seeped out.

At underage, the Derry house looks in pretty good nick. It might have taken a few years to furnish, but they got there in the end.

Jim Gavin has stood over his criticism of the Croke Park pitch and insisted Gaelic games, not concerts, should be the GAA’s priority.

This Limerick U21 team carries shades of last year’s Waterford class.

Peter Keane doesn’t see how Kerry have come to wear the tag of “raging hot favourites” ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland minor final with Galway.

They’re an obstinate bunch, Tipperary football folk. Small in number but big in pretty much everything else — it took three pleas from the PA announcer in Croke Park to convince them to leave the stadium long after the players had retired to their dressing room.

Dublin 1-21 Roscommon 3-06

It wasn’t surprising that Paul McIver was ebullient at the final whistle. Seeing his players overcome a top side when reduced to 14 men is inclined to put any backroom team in good humour.

Cork County Board tonight ratified the appointment of Brian Cuthbert as Cork Senior Football manager on a two-year agreement.

For the second successive year, James McGrath from Westmeath has been chosen to referee an All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship final replay.

Shane Enright may not yet be a name that slips off the tongue when discussing Kerry football but that could be about to change.

Former Royals’ senior football team manager Eamonn Barry is set to return as Meath County Board coaching officer in a bizarre turnabout.

The start of something special – that was the reaction of joint Clare manager Donal Moloney after his side’s outstanding second half performance helped them claim the county’s second U-21 title in four years.

They may just have blown their cover but Shay Boland is confident his Dublin minors can still seal victory at the second attempt.

Laois native Maurice Deegan has been confirmed as the referee for the 2012 GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final between Donegal and Mayo on Sunday, September 23.

A hat-trick of first-half goals helped carry Kilkenny into the Bord Gais All-Ireland Under 21 Hurling final, and Cats boss Richie Mulrooney was thankful of his sides good start.

DESSIE Farrell was not the only Dublin minor manager in a tense mood as his side sought to scramble a success in last Sunday’s All-Ireland football semi-final against Galway.

IT was not until the aftermath of last week’s Munster U21 football final in Páirc Uí Rinn that Cork boss John Cleary was able to properly gauge the level of performance his players had produced.

Armagh 0-10 Mayo 0-7

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.

BRENDAN MAHER will make his starting championship debut for Tipperary in Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Limerick, after being drafted into the team by manager Liam Sheedy last night.

THE numbers playing the game have mushroomed in recent years, but the challenge for Ladies Football now is to achieve another jump in attendance figures, according to Cumann Peil na nBan president Geraldine Giles.

Derry 4-7 Laois 1-11

The GAA has confirmed that the All-Ireland senior hurling final between Limerick and Kilkenny at Croke Park on September 2 will be refereed by Diarmuid Kirwan of Cork.

The GAA has announced that the replay of the minor All-Ireland football final will take place next Saturday at Cusack Park in Ennis.

Tipperary man Seamus Roche has been appointed to referee Sunday week's Guinness All-Ireland Hurling championship final between Cork and Galway.

The All-Ireland minor football cup is to be renamed the Cormac McAnallen Cup, in memory of the Tyrone captain who died from a heart condition earlier this year.

The GAA have announced that the replay of the All-Ireland Minor Final between Dublin and Laois will take place at Dr Cullen Park, in Carlow on Sunday week, October 12 at 3.30pm.

Tyrone have added another point to their score-line in the All-Ireland minor final.