CHAMPIONS Garrycastle remain on course to make it three titles in-a-row after the final round of group games this weekend.

Derek Heavin has launched a scathing attack on GAA authorities after the Westmeath player was forced to announce his retirement from senior inter-county football earlier this week.

Westmeath's experienced wing forward Derek Heavin is still a number of days away from being released from the Mater Hospital in Dublin.

Derry manager James O'Kane and his Westmeath counterpart Kevin Martin both have injury worries in their respective panels ahead of this Saturday's Christy Ring Cup clash at Cusack Park in Mullingar (kick off: 2.30pm).

DIFFERENT sport, different day, but this was depressingly reminiscent of Ireland’s facile defeat of Canada in Thomond Park on Saturday with one side doing what they wanted, when they wanted against an inferior opponent.

LIFE, as an unlikely American philosopher once told us, is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

CHRISTY COONEY is set to become the next president of the GAA, and the campaign to alter Rule 42 looks likely to be successful.

Terminally-ill patients could benefit from a €10,000 donation made by an All Ireland-winning footballer to avoid a criminal conviction for breaking the jaw of another player, it emerged tonight.

Mount Sion (Waterford) 4-13 Kilmaley (Clare) 0-9