Corofin and Ballintubber will meet in the AIB Connacht Senior Football Final for the second time since 2011 on November 23, following wins over Aughawillan and St Brigids respectively this afternoon.

St Brigids’ "drive for five" remains intact after a comfortable victory against last year’s beaten finalists, Western Gaels, in yesterday’s Roscommon SFC semi-final at Dr Hyde Park.

Dublin 2-14 Cork 1-13

Offaly SFC: Reigning Offaly senior hurling and intermediate football champions Kilcormac-Killoughey caused quite a stir last week when they refused to field a team in their SFC clash with St Rynaghs on Thursday.

Reigning AIB Ulster Club SFC Champions Crossmaglen Rangers bowed out following a replay defeat to Kilcoo today.

Cork camogie player Aoife Murray has experienced both sides of the coin, the ecstasy of All-Ireland glory, the heartache of defeat.

Shane Dooley showed just why Emmet McDonnell was quick to call him into the county football squad with a stellar performance for Tullamore in the Offaly SFC last night, helping his club to a 0-16 to 1-7 victory over Walsh Island.

St Brigids (Roscommon) 2-11 Ballymun Kickhams (Dublin) 2-10

Jim Gavin’s appointment as the new Dublin senior football manager looks almost a formality after being approached about succeeding Pat Gilroy.

Inter-county footballers have given a mixed response to the motion calling for gumshields to be made mandatory by 2014.

Listening to John Gaffey, you’d swear he’s been here before but the 27-year-old will lead out Garrycastle in their first ever All-Ireland Club SFC final in two days.

Garrycastle boss Anthony Cunningham expects Crossmaglen to use all of their know-how to win Saturday’s All-Ireland club SFC final.

Crossmaglen are all but certain to contest captain Stephen Kernan’s second-half dismissal, which threatens to rule him out of their second successive All-Ireland final on St Patrick’s Day.

TG4 have clarified they will be broadcasting live coverage of Saturday’s All-Ireland club SFC semi-final between Dr Crokes and Crossmaglen in Portlaoise (2.30pm).

PREPARING Garrycastle for a second Leinster club football final in three years in what could be his last game in charge would be enough to keep most managers occupied. But Anthony Cunningham’s been getting accustomed to multi-tasking since he his appointment as John McIntyre’s successor over the Galway hurlers in late October.

GALWAY GAA officials have asked the Connacht Council to postpone the provincial club semi-finals for a couple of weeks to allow Finian Hanley to travel with the Irish squad to Australia.

IN EVERY close game there are crucial moments. Split second decisions that determine winners and losers.

SOUTH Roscommon man Eugene Fayne was elected president of the Golfing Union of Ireland at yesterday’s Annual General Meeting at Carton House, Co Kildare.

KILLERERIN have not given up hope that former Footballer of the Year Padraic Joyce might still be available for Sunday’s Connacht club semi-final against newly crowned Mayo champions Ballintubber.

The provincial club Football Championships got underway in Ulster and Connacht today, while there was also plenty of county football final action across the country.

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork continued their dominance of ladies football with six players named on the O’Neills/TG4 All Star team at the CityWest Hotel on Saturday night.

It has emerged that Parnell Park will not host this Saturday's Bord Gais Energy GAA All-Ireland Under-21 Hurling Championship semi-final between Antrim and Kilkenny, due to a heavy schedule of club fixtures at the north Dublin venue.

CORK hurling manager Gerald McCarthy and his selectors have named a 24-man panel for Sunday’s Waterford Crystal League clash with WIT.

Light heavyweight prospect Tommy McCarthy is two bouts away from claiming an Irish title at the National Youth Championships just a few weeks after going all the way in the Ulster Senior Championships.

Ireland beat Wales 7-5 at the Clan Naofa Boxing club in Dundalk last Friday night in a keenly contested Boy 4 international.

The Irish Amateur Boxing Association have named their Cadet team for an upcoming international tournament and training camp in the Ukraine between May 7-13.

Unfancied rural GAA clubs winning an All-Ireland title after all, it seems.

MUNSTER Club football champions An Ghaeltacht will be without their manager Fergal Ó Sé and JJ, Corduff for Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final with St Brigids, Dublin in Thurles.

WHICH Dublin will be on show in Parnell Park against Kerry tomorrow in the third round of the NFL?

St Brigid's Rory Gallagher has been cleared to play in the Leinster club semi-final against Clonguish on Sunday after a Leinster Council GAC meeting.

St Pat's chiefs have withdrawn their complaint against a prominent St Brigids player following the clubs' recent clash in the Leinster championship.

Dublin football champions St Brigids may be in trouble after one of their players was reported to the Leinster council for clashing with an opponents' mentor.

MICK O’RIORDAN and Tom Ryan have been appointed joint caretaker managers of the Dublin senior hurling team pending the appointment of a team manager.

Dublin football boss Tommy Lyons has once again refused to entertain links between former Fermanagh star Rory Gallagher and a Dublin call-up.

Jubilant St Brigids boss Paddy Clarke has revealed he's on the trail of a Leinster club title after Sunday's historic Dublin SFC win.

St Brigids 0-17, Kilmacud Crokes 1-8

Young Dublin defender Barry Cahill has been ruled out for the rest of the season at least after suffering a career threatening cruciate knee ligament injury.

St Brigid’s, Loughrea 1-13 Scoil Ruain, Killenaule 0-12

Fermanagh boss Dom Corrigan has left the door open for Rory Gallagher to make his full return to the inter-county fold.

Dublin senior football manager Tommy Lyons has laughed off suggestions that he's to swoop for Fermanagh's Rory Gallagher.