Queens University Belfast and Trinity College Dublin will contest this afternoon’s Ryan Cup decider after both teams came through extremely tight semi-final affairs.

Waterford IT and Dundalk IT (DKIT) will contest this afternoon’s Trench Cup decider after both teams enjoyed extremely comfortable semi-final wins.

The ‘Earn Our Vote’ alliance comprises of Active Retirement Ireland, Age Action, Age and Opportunity, ALONE, Irish Senior Citizens Parliament, Active Ageing Partnership and Third Age Ireland. These groups represent more than half a million people over the age of 65 in Ireland.

Stephen Rochford is Corofin’s first outside manager. A Mayo man, he won an All-Ireland club title with Crossmolina in 2001 alongside the likes of Ciaran McDonald and the brothers Tom and James Nallen.

St Vincents 1-13 Rhode 0-06

Step into the impressive St Vincent’s GAA bar room and it’s not long before you’re reminded of the club’s glory era.

AIB Leinster Club SFC final

It is a measure of the standards set by St Vincent’s that Tomas Quinn pronounced himself entirely ‘disappointed’ with their AIB Leinster club semi-final win.

All-Ireland champions St Vincents of Dublin will start next month’s Leinster club championship final as clear favourites against Rhode of Offaly after today's semi-finals.

St Vincent’s booked their place in the Dublin SHC quarter-finals following an emphatic 6-21 to 0-13 victory over Parnells in Parnell Park on Saturday.

A few weeks ago our club, Watty Graham’s Glen, received a request from the St Vincent’s club in Dublin.

1. Diarmuid Connolly is a top-class footballer

Hugh Gill is philosophical about the likelihood of St Vincent’s run to Monday’s All-Ireland Club SFC final putting him in the window for a return to the Dublin panel.

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

Chloe Magee flashes a wide smile. She is talking about her future targets and ambitions. And her goals are big.

Three games in eight days.

ST LOMAN’S 0-9 ST VINCENT’S 0-11

St Vincent's 1-9 Ballymun Kickhams 1-8

Ballymun Kickhams 0-20 St Vincent’s 1-17 (aet)

Second-half goals from Darren O’Reilly and Ryan Basquel helped secure a 2-13 to 1-11 win for Ballyboden St Enda’s over St Brigid’s in Saturday’s Dublin SFC quarter-final at Parnell Park.

Rio Ferdinand has defended his decision to fly out to Qatar in the week he withdrew from the England squad in order to follow a pre-planned fitness routine.

LIT Tipperary survived a major scare to reach the Ryan Cup final as Queen’s University Belfast came within a puck of a ball of one of the upsets of the Fitzgibbon Cup weekend at Athenry.

Ashley Cole is due to report for England duty today despite calls from some quarters for him to be banned from international duty over his attack on the Football Association.

Martin O’Reilly was the toast of Marino College after their exciting Corn na MacLeinn final victory at Dangan on Saturday.

WITH 15 minutes to go in the final, I called Pat Gilroy over.

The draws for the 2012 Higher Education GAA Championships, including the prestigious Sigerson and Fitzgibbon Cups, were made this afternoon in Croke Park.

ONCE upon a time, Ireland’s primary school system was a fertile conveyor belt for budding hurlers and footballers.

BOSS Liam Hogan toasted absent friend Stephen Perkins as Ballyboden St Enda’s claimed an historic fourth Dublin SHC title on the trot.

ALMOST 900 jobs were under threat in Dublin last night after the High Court appointed a provisional liquidator and interim examiner to a leading hotel and bar group and also appointed an examiner to a laundry company.

KEVIN CARBERRY is one of hundreds of students who will face the dole or emigration this summer because his teaching qualifications may not be good enough to secure work in Irish primary schools.

ST VINCENT’S completed a remarkable renaissance yesterday at Croke Park when they prevailed by a point in a compelling All-Ireland club final.

AIB ALL-IRELAND SENIOR CLUB FOOTBALL FINAL:

WHEN people aren’t feeling sorry for them, they’re saying they shouldn’t even be admitted to the top table, but today your frank and fearless columnist asks: who wouldn’t want to play for San Marino?

CHAMPIONS Limerick IT have been drawn against Galway IT in the first round of the Datapac Fitzgibbon Cup.

A multi-denominational school for children with special needs was today praised by the Minister for Education.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly has backed novel rule changes for next year’s secondary provincial competitions which could trigger the introduction of the sin-bin into Gaelic games.

WORKERS at Irish Fertiliser Industries were thrown a lifeline last night when the Government promised to back any viable new business plan.