Clare manager Colm Collins says the decision to refix the Laois-Armagh qualifier has “big implications” for the ‘A’ side of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.

John Fogarty looks at 10 goals that while impressive, could have been ruled out on another day.

All-Ireland Club JHC semi-final: The Dungourney dinner dance has been scheduled for Saturday, February 20 and with four pieces of silverware already booked in for the top table, junior manager Brian Ronayne is dearly hoping there’ll be a last minute edition to the victory banquet.

All-Ireland IHC final

Galway hurlers could be on the verge of a surprise boost in the next two weeks with Conor Cooney back doing light training following his broken foot.

Tipperary football chairman Joe Hannigan maintains a lot of the blame for the county’s delayed senior championship lays with Croke Park.

Thankfully, among the gazillions of garlands deservedly being flung at the feet of Kilkenny and Tipperary, there are no coins of sympathy.

Former All-Star Damien Hayes has described the performances of Galway over the past two years as ‘a disaster’.

There can’t be much worrying Jim Gavin right now.

At a get-to-know-you meeting with the media earlier this year, Jim Gavin showed journalists footage of Dublin football from the 1970s and 1980s.

As happened last year, as was always bound to happen anyway, Kilkenny the immortal has gradually become the Kilkenny the mortal.

It’s been a longstanding trend in the GAA for the No.2 to get all the glory and none of the gore.

Wexford 1-17 Dublin 1-17

Tony Browne is not included in Waterford’s starting side for Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final clash with Clare.

Henry Shefflin has expressed delight at his return to competitive hurling but insists he would be “foolish to start thinking that I’m grand and ready to go back playing with Kilkenny”.

IT should have been the holiday of a lifetime but in the end the lure of a Leinster semi-final with his club Athy on Sunday proved too much for Mick Foley.

WATCHING him in full flowin Sunday’s second-half, you might have assumed JJ Delaney didn’t have a care in the world.

DERMOT EARLEY has expressed confidence that the fact Joe McQuillan has umpired regularly for referee Pat McEnaney will have no impact on Kildare’s attempts to overcome Meath in tonight’s SFC qualifier at Páirc Tailteann.

Dublin 2-16 Meath 2-14

ANTHONY MOYLES was happy to let Meath’s attack bask in most of the acclaim after Sunday’s devastating destruction of Dublin, but the versatile veteran feels a strong case was made for the defence as well.

STALE? Lack of hunger after four All-Ireland titles in a row? You obviously don’t know your Kilkenny hurling.

REALISTICALLY, honestly, do Waterford have any chance against Kilkenny in tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final?

EAMONN O’BRIEN doesn’t like looking back. So, when he took over the management of the Meath footballers from Colm Coyle last winter he wasn’t too preoccupied with what had happened over the course of a campaign which had ended with a humiliating defeat to Limerick in a first-round qualifier game.

Dublin's Collie Moran is due to bring his appeal against a four-week suspension before the Disputes Resolution Authority tonight.

Talk of the three-in-a row increases with each game for the Cork hurlers. Jim O’Sullivan sounds a warning.

TOM KELLY has admitted the All-Ireland qualifiers have been the perfect testing ground for Laois as they re-enter the main race for Sam Maguire with a quarter-final against Mayo in a fortnight.

Matty Forde has been hit with a 12-week ban and misses Wexford's football qualifier against Fermanagh this evening.

Matty Forde is still available to play in Wexford's Football Qualifier against Fermanagh this evening after being unavailable for last night's disciplinary meeting.

BOTH Armagh and Donegal have been hit by injuries prior to their Ulster SFC final clash at Clones on Sunday.

KEVIN KILMURRAY expects the GAA’s Disputes Resolutions Authority to give a ruling in favour of Offaly which will allow them fulfil their Leinster championship fixture with Wexford in Croke Park on Sunday week.

LIAM Donoghue might never have made it to the top in hurling if he hadn’t been patient, if he wasn’t prepared to keep up his standard at club level and wait for the opportunity to make the goalkeeping position on the Galway hurling team his own.

NOW it’s official. Kilkenny are better placed to win the Leinster SHC than they were 12 months ago.

MICHAEL JACOB has a fairly clear idea of the advantages which Kilkenny hurling enjoys in respect of the relative progress, or lack of it, made by Wexford.

Waterford 1-26 Offaly 1-15

STICKING a microphone in John McIntyre’s face after the final whistle yesterday didn’t feel so much like kicking a man when he was down, more like robbing him of his wallet as he lay bruised in the gutter.

ANOTHER emotional day at Croke Park for Mick O’Dwyer. And another example of how his hunger for gaelic football is far from sated after a lifetime of dining at the top table.

ANYBODY who questions the merit of Wexford's win over All-Ireland champions Kilkenny in the Leinster semi-final does a disservice to both teams, according to Cats' manager Brian Cody.

CARLOW’S one point victory over Dublin in the O’Byrne Cup may have surprised many in the world of gaelic football, but not the winner’s coach, Mick Condon.

BARRING another upset, Tipperary will be expected to go through to the Guinness All-Ireland hurling semi-finals.