Pádraic Joyce will be put forward for ratification as the new Galway senior football manager.

Reigning Galway SHC champions Liam Mellows will face Tynagh-Abbey/Duniry in the quarter-finals this year.

Damien Comer’s Annaghdown will aim to halt Corofin’s bid for six successive Galway SFC titles when they face off in the semi-finals again.

Jack McCarron’s audacity last Sunday has re-opened the debate about the great Croke Park Gaelic football goals. 

Sky Sports have put tomorrow’s meeting of Manchester United and Liverpool at the centre of what they are calling ‘Rivalry Weekend’.

John Fintan Daly has known AIB All-Ireland club success at Croke Park at a higher level in the past; namely with Milltown-Castlemaine in the 2012 intermediate decider.

Tracey Kennedy was confirmed last night as the first female chair in Cork GAA history as nominations closed for annual convention without a challenge to her nomination.

Paul McBride is the only Irish star left standing in the 122nd Amateur Championship at Royal St George’s on the Kent coast.

Beaufort 2-8 Milltown/Castlemaine 1-10: For the first time in 18 years, Beaufort claimed the Mid Kerry SFC title, repeating their 1998 success over the same opposition, at the same venue, JP O’Sullivan Park, Killorglin. 

Kerry SFC, Round 2B - Milltown/ Castlemaine 1-15 East Kerry 1-14 (after extra time): Milltown/Castlemaine recovered from a poor opening half, when they were fortunate to still be in the contest, to take over in the second before going on to beat East Kerry in extra time in Killorglin.

Sexton still shining in Lahinch.

Killarney races kicks off its summer racing season with a three-day meeting that begins on Sunday May 15.

Dr Crokes pummeled Kilcummin 4-17 to 0-7 in the opening round of the Kerry senior club championship on Saturday night.

Willie Duggan has been on the Mitchelstown CBS staff since 1982 and, with over 30 years of service in the classroom and in promoting GAA amongst the school’s small student populace, today marks CBS’s biggest day in sport– its inaugural appearance in an All Ireland colleges final.

Dr Crokes 3-15 Austin Stacks 3-9: Dr Crokes came out on top in a feisty Credit Union Kerry County SFL Division One clash at Lewis Road that doubled as the 2015 Kerry County League final.

Cahir (Tipperary) 2-12 Milltown (Westmeath) 2-14: Ruth Kearney inspired Milltown to an historic All-Ireland Ladies Club IFC final success — but the Westmeath champions had to fend off a spirited late fightback from Cahir before landing the silverware.

Milltown-Castlemaine 2-9 Austin Stacks 2-6: It could only happen in Kerry! Last year’s county champions Austin Stacks are staring down the barrel of relegation from the senior championship to the intermediate ranks in 2016.

All-Ireland-winning senior and minor manager, Jack O’Connor, is set to be ratified as Kerry’s new U21 football boss tonight, by County Board delegates.

Dingle 2-4 Milltown-Castlemaine 1-4: Every bit as dogged and dour as the scoreline indicates, Dingle were forced to dig deep to overcome a tough challenge from Milltown-Castlemaine in this Kerry SFC Round 1 replay at Páirc an Aghasaigh on Saturday.

Milltown-Castlemaine 1-13 Dingle 1-13 (AET): There was stalemate in Milltown in this Kerry SFC first-round game as the hosts recovered from five points down with 15 minutes left of normal time, to claw themselves back into contention.

Two goals from penalties by Salthill/Knocknacarra’s Shane Maughan couldn’t prevent All-Ireland champions Corofin win on their return to the Galway SFC.

Killarney Racecourse expects the possible appearances of Finian’s Rainbow and Simonsig to draw a crowd to their three-day meeting.

Dr Crokes and Austin Stacks join Rathmore in the Kerry Senior Club Championship semi-finals after wins over Killarney Legion and Ardfert respectively.

As one foxy-headed supremo bowed out from the inter-county fray this week, another is about to make his eagerly-awaited return. 

Milltown-Castlemaine 1-11 Keel 0-6

Daniel Bohan first describes himself as the Bionic Man, then decides Lazarus is a more appropriate comparison.

Holders Corofin, winners of a dozen Galway SFC titles in the past 23 years, remain on course to retain their crown after an emphatic 4-14 to 0-2 semi-final win over Milltown.

While there was disappointment for East Cork in the Private Home Care Ladies Inter-Club Championships at Monkstown yesterday when they lost in the finals of the Minor and Intermediate Cups, there was glory for Killarney in the Senior Foursomes and for Wicklow and Edenmore, the clubs who put paid to East Cork’s hopes of a famous treble, in the other two finals decided on another day at the superbly presented Co Cork course.

Monkstown Golf Club will be a hive of activity this week as it plays host to the national finals of the Private Home Care inter-club women’s championships from tomorrowthrough to Saturday.

No Declan O’Sullivan in the team, no Colm Cooper in the squad and two changes to the side that beat Mayo.

The favourite to take over from Alan Mulholland as Galway manager, Kevin Walsh, saw his Micheal Breathnach side crash out of the Galway SFC yesterday as Salthill/Knocknacarra prevailed on a of 3-10 to 0-13 scoreline in atrocious conditions at Moycullen.

The rough housekeeping first, before the dusting. Galway are only an average side.

Former Connacht rugby star Gavin Duffy made his championship debut for Salthill/Knocknacarra as two Sean Armstrong goals helped last year’s finalists into the third round of the Galway SFC.

Dr Crokes enjoyed a facile victory over a decimated Kerins O’Rahilly’s side, 4-19 to 0-8, on Saturday to leapfrog them and reach top spot in the Division 1 table.

Kilkenny, who play Offaly in the Leinster SHC at Nowlan Park tomorrow (7pm), have made three changes from the league final win over Tipperary.

Kerry SFC: Milltown/Castlemaine 0-18 West Kerry 2-12