The draws for the 2012 Higher Education GAA Championships, including the prestigious Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups, were made this afternoon in Croke Park.

Some of the most promising footballers and hurlers in the country will be honoured at the Ulster Bank Rising Stars awards ceremony at the bank's headquarters in Dublin tonight.

NUI Galway student Donal McAnallen has resigned as secretary of the Higher Education Council of the GAA (Comhairle Ardoideachais CLG) with immediate effect.

The majority of winners of this year's Datapac Hotshots awards, an AllStars like scheme brought about to honour students who have excelled during the Higher Education GAA Championships, have come from champions DCU and Waterford IT.