ANTRIM breezed to their 10th Ulster Minor Hurling Championship title in a row against a disappointing Derry side at Casement Park yesterday.

IT was meant to be a spring that provided a series of rigorous inter-county tests and offered the perfect platform to build for championship football, but instead Stephen O’Neill found himself in a familiar mode of having to rehabilitate.

ANTRIM attacker Terry O’Neill insists tomorrow’s NFL Division 3 decider carries a massive incentive despite promotion having been secured.

Tyrone 3-9 St Mary’s 2-11

The weekend’s handball action went according to the script, as all the top seeds survived their respective DALKIA Senior Singles Championship clashes to confirm quarter-final spots.

AS MICHAEL Flatley moves to acquire property in Kerry, the Lord of the Dance star is planning to discard a very precious possession in Limerick.

Beleaguered Antrim have made six changes and a number of positional switches as they bid to stave off relegation to the Christy Ring Cup against Laois on Saturday (Páirc Tailteann, Navan, throw-in 3.30pm).

CORK’S striking hurlers and footballers want “real movement” from Cork GAA chiefs when talks resume with members of the County Board executive tomorrow night.

By Tony Leen GAELIC Players Association chief Dessie Farrell said last night he was “speechless and spellbound” at an Antrim County Board document which discourages players from joining the GPA.