Leinster and All-Ireland SFC champions Dublin have been rewarded with six positions on the 2011 GAA GPA All-Stars Football team, which was announced at tonight's banquet event at the Convention Centre.

Cork will meet Laois in the semi-finals of the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Senior Football Championship following their excellent come-from-behind victory over reigning champions Dublin in their quarter-final today.

HOW did we do last night, then? Not that it matters very much, I suppose: thanks to the rather fortunate win in Catalonia, this group appears to have gone into a coma, which prompted Messrs Fergie and Carrick pre-match to sound off about how “great” the Champions League still is in terms of excitement in its group stages.

Playing their third win-or-bust championship game in 15 days almost proved too much for Cork's senior hurlers yesterday, but another gritty second-half comeback was enough to see them past Clare.

Former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane paid a visit to one of the Cork hurlers' recent training sessions, it has emerged.