GOALS win games and Emmet Óg’s four majors were the difference as the Monaghan and Ulster champions booked their place in next month’s All-Ireland intermediate club final.

John Fintan Daly played a straight bat ahead of Knocknagree’s Munster junior football final, if you remember. He pointed out that Cork clubs had a dismal record in the competition against Kerry opposition but he believed in his own side and said as much.

While it was a year ultimately ending in defeat by Cork at the All-Ireland semi-final stage, 2013 was one of progress for Kerry ladies footballers.

EVEN the most experienced listener to Seán Óg O Ceallacháin’s Sunday night results round-up may be unsure about a team playing this weekend in the All-Ireland club junior football quarter-final.

ROSCOMMON GAA suffered a massive loss of 25% — over €500,000 — in its income during 2009 as the recession hit hard.