STAR players Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty and James Masters return to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz NFL clash with Armagh at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

DARRAGH Ó SÉ could return for Kerry against Galway in Sunday’s Allianz NFL clash at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

COUNTY senior hurling champions Sarsfields will face fellow east Cork side Castlelyons in their first defence of their title on Saturday May 2, a game down for decision in Midleton.

NICHOLAS MURPHY is likely to be fit to play with Cork in Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Laois at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise. The All Star damaged a tendon against Fermanagh last week and was replaced by John Hayes.

DUBLIN will have to plan without full-back Kevin Ryan — out with a hamstring injury — for their Allianz NHL league clash with Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. But the Dubs are hopeful centre-back Tomás Brady and midfielder Johnny McCaffrey will have recovered from knocks sustained when, respectively, assisting Na Fianna and winners Lucan Sarsfields in the Dublin U-21HC final last Saturday.

PAT O’SHEA wasn’t just being diplomatic. He said straight out — when quizzed on the field minutes after the final whistle — that he couldn’t say if Kieran Donaghy had been ‘foot-blocked’ when he attempted to kick a goal in injury time in yesterday’s Allianz NFL final in Parnell Park.

THE Kerry County Board has ruled out a toss to decide the venue for their Allianz NFL final with Derry the weekend after next, almost certainly on Saturday, to avoid a clash with Munster’s Heineken Cup semi-final the following day.

ALLSTAR Nicholas Murphy returns to the Cork team for Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Dublin at Parnell Park.

A NUMBER of Tyrone footballers became involved in an altercation with some guests at a function in Tipperary’s Dundrum House Hotel last Saturday night.

BARRY FOLEY is a shock selection on the Limerick team to play Kilkenny in the Allianz National Hurling League final at Thurles, on Sunday.

MICK O'DWYER has been down this road before. In his second stint as Kildare manager he masterminded the defeat of his native Kerry in the 1998 All-Ireland semi-final.

THE decision on whether or not Laois midfielder Padraig Clancy plays in tomorrow’s Allianz NFL semi-final clash with Kerry will be left up to the player himself, after his legendary grandfather passed away yesterday.

BRIAN SHEEHAN and Colm Cooper will start for Kerry against Laois in the Allianz NFL semi-final at Killarney on Sunday.

THERE is one change on the Limerick team for Sunday's Allianz National Hurling League quarter-final against Waterford in Thurles.

OFFALY have made three changes from the side that lost to Tyrone last time out for tomorrow night’s Allianz NFL clash with Kerry at Austin Stack Park, Tralee.

Setanta Sports have revealed their broadcasting schedule for the forthcoming Allianz National Football League campaign.

BRIAN DOOHER has been ruled out of Sunday’s vital Allianz NFL game with All-Ireland champions Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium.

Sligo 0-08 Armagh 0-16

Cork's footballers are still hoping to reach the Allianz NFL semi-finals despite yesterday’s narrow defeat to Tyrone, according to boss Billy Morgan.

FOOTBALLER of the year Tomás Ó Sé has been presented with a fresh challenge ahead of Kerry's televised Allianz NFL clash with Dublin in Tralee tomorrow night.

ALAN BROGAN has been ruled out of the rest of Dublin’s Allianz NFL campaign as the corner forward is to undergo explorative surgery on his knee, according to a statement on Hill16, the Dublin GAA’s official website.

Dublin 1-6 Mayo 0-8

THE meeting of All-Ireland champions Tyrone and Galway is the mouthwatering clash served up by the draw drum for the third round of the Bank of Ireland SFC Qualifiers.

THE GAA has been compelled to open all stiles in Croke Park for Sunday's Allianz NFL finals, even though there is little likelihood of the two games attracting more than 30,000 supporters.

JOHNNY CULLOTY isn’t the type of man who would be nostalgic about the past. Though he has every right to be, given his record of proud service to Kerry football as a goalkeeper supreme, turned corner-forward, and as a hurler of note.

JACK O’CONNOR arrived in Dublin to talk football, the Allianz NFL semi-finals, a meeting with Limerick and a progress report on his debut year.

FORMER All-Star, Eoin Kelly, has again been omitted from the Waterford senior hurling panel for Sunday’s crunch Allianz NHL Division 1A tie against Galway at Walsh Park (2pm).

Longford 0-9 Tyrone 3-15

Kildare give competitive starts to 2002 minor captain Michael Foley from Athy at midfield and his 2003 counter-part, Moorefield’s Ross Glavin, at full forward for Sunday’s Allianz NFL tie against Derry in Newbridge.

A NUMBER of unspecified issues remain to be settled between the GAA and the Irish Sports Council (ISC) relating to the introduction of “out of competition” drug-testing of inter-county players.

INJURIES and suspensions have forced the Waterford selectors to make a number of positional changes for their Munster SHC game against Kerry at Walsh Park on Sunday.

LIMERICK have been dealt a cruel blow as an injury leaves Stephen Lucey extremely doubtful for in the lead-up AS the countdown Sunday’s Allianz NFL final against Westmeath in Croke Park (1.30 pm).

THERE is still no room on the Kilkenny team for team captain Charlie Carter.

JOE Kernan didn’t need to articulate what he was almost certainly feeling after All-Ireland champions Armagh were beaten in yesterday’s Allianz NFL semi-final in Croke Park.

OISÍN McCONVILLE is out of the Armagh team for next Sunday’s Allianz NFL semi-final against Laois at Croke Park.

DUNSHAUGHLIN captain Aidan Kealy has been given a last minute reprieve by Croke Park’s GAC to play in Sunday’s AIB All-Ireland club SFC semi final against Crossmolina.