St Patrick’s, chasing a third successive Louth SFC title, were given a huge fright in the senior championship quarter-finals over the weekend.

The most exciting of the weekend’s six Louth SFL matches was one involving teams in the relegation zone.

Kerry pair Eoin Brosnan and Jonathan Lyne are unlikely to be fully fit in time for Kerry’s Munster SFC quarter-final clash with Tipperary at Fitzgerald Stadium on Sunday (2pm).

Westmeath 0-16 Louth 2-9

Bryan Sheehan, Anthony Maher and Aidan O’Mahony make their first starts of the year for Kerry in tomorrow’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Limerick at Fitzgerald Stadium.

Brian White will be a notable absentee from the Louth team when they face Westmeath in the opening round of the Leinster Championship next month.

LOUTH footballers have received a huge boost with the news that Brian McEniff will play a more significant role for the Wee County in 2012.

COLM JUDGE has been dropped from the Louth panel ahead of tomorrow’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Carlow.

Mick Fanning will make his seasonal debut for Louth in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Carlow in Portlaoise (throw-in 3.30pm).

KILMACUD CROKES star Ross O’Carroll has admitted his brother, All-Star nominee Rory, will miss the crucial Leinster club semi-final against Garrycastle on Sunday week.

Kilmacud Crokes, Garrycastle, Skyrne and Rhode have advanced to the semi-finals of the AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship following today's matches around the province.

Portlaoise, Garrycastle and Skryne claimed victories on the opening day of the 2010 AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship.

ST Gall’s and Portlaoise are the only two clubs in contention to retain their provincial titles as the action in this year’s AIB All-Ireland Club Championships gets cranked up a few notches in the coming weeks.

There was county football final action in Donegal, Derry, Fermanagh, Westmeath, Wexford, Wicklow and London today, while Kilmallock claimed the lone Senior Hurling championship title on offer.

IN an action that could have serious implications for the GAA, a referee is suing two football clubs following an alleged assault at the end of a controversial game.

LOUTH’S emergence into the bright lights of a first Leinster final for the first time in half a century is a remarkable story all in itself, but it is one accompanied by a collection of equally eye-catching individual tales.

Portlaoise (Laois) 2-21 Mattock Rangers (Louth) 0-2

THIS was no thriller but Portlaoise won’t care. Yesterday was all about the numbers – a sixth county title and their first three-in-a-row since 1987.

Portlaoise 1-9 Arles/Kilcruise 0-8

A total of seven players have withdrawn from the Louth senior football panel ahead of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.

The draw has been made for the 2006 O'Neills Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland Football Sevens tournament.

KILDARE football champions Sarsfields must get the very best from their defenders if they are to win Sunday’s AIB Leinster club final in Navan.

Eamon McEneaney's appointment as Louth manager yesterday completed the sideline shuffles and reshuffles for next year's Football Championship. Only two hurling posts are yet to be filled. Brendan O'Brien tours the country for an end-of-season report.

UCD and Limerick star Stephen Lucey hit back yesterday at critics of the College’s participation in the club championships.

Dublin kingpins Kilmacud Crokes trounced St Peter's Dunboyne of Meath 1-14 to 0-3 in the Leinster Club Football quarterfinals today.

Progressive Down outfit Castlewellan are on course to retain their AIB GAA Club of the Year title having been once again voted the cream of the Mourne County.

FORMER Cork coach Billy Morgan has refused to discuss a possible return to inter-county management following Nemo Rangers’ weekend exit from the county championship.

Louth boss Paddy Carr has stuck with a winning formula ahead of Saturday's NFL Div 2A clash with Limerick at Ardee.

ON paper, to borrow a ridiculously over-used phrase, tomorrow's 'other' All-Ireland semi-final won't be much of a contest. After all, you have Crossmolina fighting out of the Connacht corner, with their array of talent and an All-Ireland medal to fall back on. For Dunshaughlin, the Leinster champions, Dr Hyde Park represents uncharted territory.

Kildare manager Padraig Nolan has named an unchanged side for this Sunday's national football league Division 1B clash against Meath in Pairc Tailteann.

ST MALACHY’S, Castlewellan of Down were named the AIB Club of the Year for 2002 in Croke Park yesterday.

LIMERICK footballer John Quane will replace Kerry captain Darragh Ó Sé, on the Vodafone Allstars visit to San Diego this week.

The GAA and sponsors AIB today announced the 32 'Club of the Year' winners from around the country.

Dunshaughlin are this morning celebrating becoming Leinster club football champions for the first time in their history.

Moorefield manager Mick Condon has warned Dunshaughlin to take nothing for granted when they face up to minnows Mattock Rangers in Sunday's Leinster final.

Mattock Rangers boss Brendan Reilly has reported a clean bill of health ahead of Sunday's Leinster club football final with Dunshaughlin.

REVENGE may not be mentioned openly down Collon way in Louth this week, yet it seems to lurk silently around every footballing corner of the county.

Dunshaughlin have booked a place in the Leinster football final after beating reigning champions Rathnew in yesterday's semi-final replay in Newbridge.

COLLON is a pretty, if minute, piece of rural Ireland going unnoticed daily by the rush of traffic on the Dublin Derry road.

Dublin champions UCD will meet Rathnew of Wicklow in a re-scheduled Leinster Football quarter-final this Sunday.

Nemo Rangers of Cork will meet Monaleen of Limerick in the Munster senior football club championship final after beating Kerins O'Rahillys of Kerry by six points in the semi-final yesterday.

Mattock Rangers (Louth) 3-13 Moorefield (Kildare) 2-10

Mark Gallagher looks at how Reilly put the boys from Collon firmly on the map