Galway football manager Pádraic Joyce has revealed he was criticised within the county for making Shane Walsh team captain but says the Kilkerrin-Clonberne man has revelled in the role.

Kerry manager Peter Keane has given no timeline as to when Paudie Clifford will make his senior debut.

Kerry flew to Dublin last Saturday week for the opening round of the League when, ordinarily for a big game in the capital, they would travel on the eve of the fixture.

Cork County Board secretary Kevin O’Donovan has said the new surface is still “vulnerable” and so, for the moment, neither Cork senior team is permitted to train on the pitch on weeks when they do not have a league fixture.

Long-serving Clare manager Colm Collins is an advocate of Gaelic football’s new sin bin rule, but is scathing in his criticism of the advanced mark.

The road to Tier 1 salvation will take the Cork footballers to the heart of Division 3 in Longford, by way of Tipperary and Leitrim.

Rory O’Connor has revealed how he displayed his inter-county credentials to Wexford boss Davy Fitzgerald as an 18-year-old by wrestling Matthew O’Hanlon to the ground in training.

“You just can’t beat games.”

If the championship is Broadway and the NHL off-Broadway, how would you describe last Saturday night?

The new rules had their first official airing this past weekend in the five O’Byrne Cup games, and it was encouraging that the Leinster Council brought in the five referees last week to brief them in advance.

“Well I chaired [the committee] and I don’t accept that narrative whatsoever,” said Sullivan, in response to CPA criticism of the taskforce.

No senior, U20, or minor inter-county panel should be permitted to return to collective training before December 1, according to Connacht secretary John Prenty, who has called on Croke Park to hand over governance of training ban rules to provincial councils.

Leitrim, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, and Wicklow will support the creation of a second-tier football championship at Special Congress on October 19.

RTÉ Sport is set to screen the attractive Cork SHC quarter-final double-header involving three-in-a-row-chasing champions Imokilly live on Saturday, September 21.

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Our reporters look at all the talking points from the weekend's GAA action.

Two of the players most in danger of missing an All-Ireland final because of suspension could end up marking one another in Sunday’s semi-final.

Joe Canning has admitted he was aware some thought his litany of serious injury setbacks might end his career and that he took satisfaction from proving them wrong.

Westmeath captain Aonghus Clarke has hit out at the timing of Sunday’s All-Ireland preliminary hurling quarter-final with Cork, claiming the short turnaround is ‘unfair’ on his county.

Self-pity over bad luck and refereeing decisions has cost Cork in the past, Donncha O’Connor believes.

Michael Murphy says the pain Donegal have endured in Ulster mean his fifth Ulster title in eight years is just as special as his first.

Colm O’Neill has given Cork a fighting chance of beating Kerry in the Munster final, provided they have the courage to ‘‘go after Kerry and go for the jugular”.

For the second Sunday in a row, Ballygiblin’s Darragh Flynn performed heroics for the Cork minors.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland SFC winning manager Conor Counihan has been appointed as project co-ordinator for Gaelic football.

Former Kerry footballer Conor Cox is ‘delighted’ with his move to Roscommon.

No need for a telescope when Colm Bonnar scans a metaphorical eye over the hurling landscape in Carlow.

Former All-Ireland winning Tipperary player and manager Nicky English has surprisingly questioned the fairness of Dublin’s Parnell Park as a hurling Championship venue.

Lee Keegan has revealed that James Horan is a little more hands-on, a little more knowledgeable, and a little more “scary2 in his second stint as Mayo manager.

Seamus Harnedy hopes the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC) in Croke Park this evening clear him to play against Tipperary on May 12.

Rising Wexford hurling star Rory O’Connor reckons the next generation of inter-county players will be paid for their efforts.

Mayo defender Chris Barrett has rubbished the claim that the county’s geographic location is what has, and will, prevent them from making an All-Ireland breakthrough.

Donegal waltzed back to the top flight of the Allianz League with a comprehensive 13-point win over a listless Kildare at Fr Tierney Park in Ballyshannon yesterday.

The Cork-Kilkenny ‘relegation play-off’ is set to go ahead this weekend if only to ensure suspended players don’t serve their bans in the first round of the provincial championships.

Clare legend Anthony Daly says the decision to grant Waterford home advantage for their Munster SHC games this summer has blown the provincial championship “wide open”.

Gavin White makes it clear more than once that there is nothing more important to him in a sporting sense right now than Dr Crokes’ imminent AIB All-Ireland club final meeting with Corofin on St Patrick’s Day.

It had been so long since their last competitive victory — 280 days in all — with so many demoralising blows in between, the win over Tipperary can only fuel the Cork footballers with confidence for the coming fortnight.

Disappointment for Galway but no sense of disaster.