Richie Power has criticised the performance of referee Colm Lyons in Sunday’s Division 1A game between Kilkenny and Dublin in Nowlan Park.

Personal reflections from Irish Examiner sports writers, with some 2015 wishes and predictions to boot.

AIB ULSTER CLUB SFC FINAL:

Ballinderry have described proposed suspensions for 13 players and supporters involved in a brawl which marred the club’s Derry SFC final defeat as "severe".

Slaughtneil 1-8 Ballinderry 0-9

Eoin Bradley and Gerard O’Kane were both sent off as Glenullin’s championship challenge was ended by Dungiven.

The club, we are repeatedly informed by the great and the good of the GAA, is the ‘lifeblood of the Association’. By extension, that should mean the club championship is a competition which is truly treasured by the trusted leaders who espouse this rhetoric.

Tomás Quinn is not a man for looking back, in any aspect of his life.

Early in the first half of Saturday’s All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final, St Vincent’s corner-back Michael Concarr went on a solo-run which covered the entire length of the pitch.

St Vincent’s manager Tommy Conroy expects to have captain Ger Brennan leading the team out in Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day.

St Vincent’s 2-14 Ballinderry 1-13

Our lowdown of this weekend's GAA action

Quirke with Gabriel Byrne debuts on RTÉ One, while Moone Boy makes a welcome return to Sky 1.

Eamon Fennell still receives taunts about his protracted transfer to St Vincent’s from O’Toole’s two years ago.

Players involved in Saturday week’s All-Ireland Club senior semi-finals support the idea of the competition finishing in the calendar year.

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The message that black cards are not worth picking up is getting through to teams, according to GAA president Liam O’Neill.

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness claimed Dublin’s attacking approach would be “murdered” during summer’s championship, according to Joe Brolly.

Ballinderry Shamrocks (Derry) 3-09 Kingdom Kerry Gaels (London) 2-07

Ballinderry Shamrocks (Derry) 3-9Kingdom Kerry Gaels (London) 2-7

Eoghan Cormican takes a look at each county ahead of the club championship.

Ballinderry Shamrocks 1-13 Glenswilly 2-06

After 26 seconds of yesterday’s Ulster Club SFC final you’d have given more than a penny for the thoughts of Gareth McKinless.

Mount Leinster Rangers, Dr Crokes and Ballinderry claimed AIB Provincial Senior titles in Leinster, Munster and Ulster respectively this afternoon.

AIB ULSTER CLUB SFC FINAL:

Mayo boss James Horan has set his sights on winning the National League in 2014 as he believes that it would be the perfect preparation for an assault on the All-Ireland title.

Ballinderry (Derry) 1-08 Scotstown (Monaghan) 0-10

Former All-Ireland Club SFC Champions Crossmaglen Rangers must face Kilcoo again in Ulster, where Ballinderry Shamrocks, Glenswilly and Roslea recorded wins; Dr Crokes and Ballinacourty were victorious in Munster, while Longford Slashers beat Rathnew in the opening game of the 2013 AIB Leinster Club SFC.

Ballinderry (Derry) 0-14 Clonoe (Tyrone) 0-10

Clonoe 3-08 Carrickmore 0-12

Ballinderry 3-10 Ballinascreen 2-07

Ballinderry will have to wait to see who they face in the Derry SFC final after two contrasting semi-finals at the weekend.

Glenullin edged out Slaughtneil in an extra-time thriller as the Derry senior football championship came to life last evening.

The first half dismissal of Eoin Bradley aided a comfortable Ballinderry win over Glenullin in the big game of the Derry SFC last night.

Derry may have to look to their third-choice captain once again for leadership when they face Westmeath in the Allianz Football League Division Two decider at Croke Park on Sunday.

In the early days he was mostly known as Frank McGuigan’s son.

Kildare failed to score from the 42nd minute onwards against Longford but did enough to claim their first Cadbury Leinster Under-21 Football title since 2008, while Cavan and Donegal advanced to an Ulster final meeting on April 17.

If there was an 11th commandment which forbid us from coveting our neighbouring county, then I would be a serial sinner every time I visited Healy Park.

Perhaps it’s those back and amber stripes that strike crippling fear into the hearts of opponents. But Kilkenny’s hurlers and the footballers of Crossmaglen have much more than colours in common.

Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone) 0-11 Ballinderry (Derry) 0-10

It was a busy day of action in the provincial Football Championships in both Munster and Ulster, while new SFC champions were crowned in Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford.

Errigal Ciaran captain Enda McGinley is “shocked and disappointed” by manager Ronan McGuckin’s decision not to take charge of them against his native Ballinderry in Sunday week’s Ulster club SFC quarter-final.

Ballaghadereen are the new Mayo SFC champions after dethroning last year’s winners Ballintubber by 1-9 to 0-4 in Castlebar this afternoon.

Ballinderry gave themselves a chance of becoming the first team to win back-to-back Derry titles in over a decade with a 1-8 to 0-10 win over Banagher on Saturday.