Noelle Gormley is grateful just to be part of the Sligo squad for tomorrow’s TG4 Connacht IFC final after recovering from a terrifying football-related illness that left her life in sudden danger.

Lee Keegan can understand why people from Dublin, as All-Ireland champions, were disappointed he pipped Brian Fenton and Ciarán Kilkenny for the Footballer of the Year award.

UCC manager Paul O’Keeffe has revealed they never entertained the prospect of persuading Johnny Buckley and Daithí Casey to line out for the third-level outfit in the forthcoming Munster Club SFC.