Cork senior hurling manager Kieran Kingston is on the lookout for a new coach with the departure of Frank Flannery from the Rebels’ backroom team.

Henry Shefflin says his club Ballyhale Shamrocks’ victory in the Kilkenny county final on Sunday "defers his decision" on whether to play for the Cats next year.

Rhode 0-13 Edenderry 1-7

Laois County Board have called an emergency meeting tonight following claims the county’s senior football championship does not adhere to GAA rules.

Get the house in order or soon there will be no house to worry about — that was the blunt message from Offaly’s Brian Carroll to his own county board after this latest humiliation at the hands of Kilkenny.

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Waterford manager Michael Ryan insists there is no reason why the team can’t come away from Offaly with a win in Saturday week’s preliminary round qualifier.

Henry Shefflin’s chances of playing for Kilkenny in their Leinster championship opener in June have receded further after the hurling icon had another operation on his foot last week.

Henry Shefflin may miss the entire league campaign for Kilkenny after it was confirmed that he will undergo surgery on a broken foot.

Coolderry manager Ken Hogan was making no excuses in the wake of his side's AIB All-Ireland Club SHC final defeat to Antrim's Loughgiel Shamrocks at Croke Park yesterday.

Today is the biggest date in the GAA club calendar, with the All-Ireland senior hurling and football finals being held at Croke Park.

Cathal Mullin won’t bore you and tell you Garrycastle are taking each game as it comes.

EARLY in 1991, Ken Hogan came home from training one evening to find visitors from Offaly who wanted him to coach their team.

LOUTH footballers have received a huge boost with the news that Brian McEniff will play a more significant role for the Wee County in 2012.

JUST a touch lucky to get a second chance, St Patrick’s made no mistake in yesterday’s Louth SFC final replay, beating Newtown Blues convincingly at Dundalk.

GALWAY GAA officials have asked the Connacht Council to postpone the provincial club semi-finals for a couple of weeks to allow Finian Hanley to travel with the Irish squad to Australia.

Dublin hurler Niall Corcoran believes that success on the provincial or All-Ireland stage for a club team from the capital is required in order to bring Dublin hurling to the next level.

WEXFORD hurling legend Liam Griffin has warned that counties which “yo-yo” between Allianz Hurling League Divisions 1 and 2 mayeventually be lost to lower divisions.

Portlaoise, Garrycastle and Skryne claimed victories on the opening day of the 2010 AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship.

Offaly forward Niall McNamee is hoping for a winning debut on Saturday night, having been selected in Ireland's 23-man panel to face Australia in the International Rules first Test at the Gaelic Grounds.

STEVEN McDONNELL has admitted leading Ireland to International Rules success would rank alongside his sole All-Ireland success.

A STORMING second-half, powered by the magnificence of Mark Vaughan and Brian Kavanagh, sealed Kilmacud Crokes’ seventh Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park yesterday.

FIVE counties have yet to win the Leinster club senior football championship.

THERE is no rest this week for newly-crowned Kilkenny champions Ballyhale Shamrocks, no time to celebrate their magnificent achievement of four-in-a-row.

Portlaoise 1-9 Arles/Kilcruise 0-8

IT was 1984, centenary year of the GAA, and in Kilkenny, the land where hurling is the major religion, Ballyhale Shamrocks reigned supreme. Just once in the previous six years (1981), was their authority broken, beaten by The Village, the legendary James Stephens club in the city.

There were shocks on the double in the Leinster Club Senior Hurling Championship as reigning champions Ballyhale Shamrocks of Kilkenny were dismissed by Birr while Dublin champions Ballyboden St. Enda’s have booked a place in the Leinster final at the first time of asking.

WHEN St Vincent’s face Meath’s Seneschalstown in Parnell Park tomorrow it will be the first time in 23 years that the fabled Dublin side last poked a toe in the provincial waters of the Leinster Club Championship.

Dublin football manager Paul Caffrey will have to plan without the services of defender Paul Griffin for the early part of next season, with the Kilmacud Crokes player deciding to embark on an extended holiday at the end of this year.

THE Kildare senior football championship resumes this weekend after almost three months of inactivity.

IT may still be May, but the first county senior title is already on the sideboard.

TOM KENNY has been in UCC for six years, but he doesn't have a Fitzgibbon Cup medal. Given the Cork students' record in the competition, leading the roll of honour with 39 titles, that's hard to credit.

DUBLIN GAA secretary John Costello has warned of an alarming escalation in the number of violent incidents in juvenile matches in recent years.

BIRR manager John Goode will be praying that Brian Whelahan has not aggravated a groin strain after taking part in a charity walk with other GAA legends Eoin Liston, Jack O’Shea and Henry Shefflin in Malawi.

CASTLETOWN and Camross are unlikely to appeal the heavy suspensions handed down by the Laois County Board on Monday.

After four long months, the controversial and divisive Mark Vaughan affair finally ended yesterday with the news that the St Brigid’s club will not be taking their case to the courts and will abide by the decision of the Disputes Resolution Authority.

After almost four months of dispute, there is an end to the Mark Vaughan saga.

WHAT with all the off-field ructions in the midlands lately, no-one could be chastised for forgetting the fact that there is actually football to be played before the Christmas lull.

THE chairman of Portlaoise GAA club has vowed that they will support captain and inter-county star Colm Parkinson, who was arrested in Athlone on Sunday morning.

Dublin football has been rocked by the news that star midfielder Darren Magee will not be available for the NFL campaign next year.

THE GAA’s hottest managerial signature was up for grabs last night, as legendary coach Mick O’Dwyer prepared to walk away from Laois.

Dublin football champions St Brigids may be in trouble after one of their players was reported to the Leinster council for clashing with an opponents' mentor.