Kevin Egan When the qualifier draw is made this morning, it will be Offaly — the only remaining county in today’s draw that will play their league football outside the top two divisions next spring — that will be seen as the plum draw for most of the other seven.

Clare 1-19 Offaly 2-14

Clare needed every one of their 20 scores to edge out a valiant Offaly side that refused to give in.

Offaly 2-20 Antrim 1-15

Offaly 0-17 London 1-7: Offaly may have beaten London but it was evident that they still hadn’t left the one-point defeat by Westmeath in the Leinster Champions behind them, with manager Pat Flanagan admitting that the players were suffering from a hangover as a result of events in Mullingar a fortnight ago.

Offaly 0-15 Clare 1-11: Offaly added their name to the shortlist of Division 3 promotion candidates yesterday when they overcame the concession of a late Eoin Cleary goal to snatch the last score of an entertaining contest against Clare at O’Connor Park.

Brian Whelahan has shown remarkable faith in his Offaly team for tomorrow’s crunch All-Ireland hurling qualifier with Clare in Ennis.

Colin Walshe replaces Drew Wylie in the only change to the Monaghan side for Sunday’s Ulster SFC semi-final with Fermanagh in Kingspan Breffni Park (4pm). Walshe came on as a sub in the win over Cavan in the quarter-final, scoring a point.

Longford 0-16 Offaly 0-13: In a streaky game where both sides thrived on confidence, ultimately Offaly’s lack of self-belief cost them when they saw the finishing line.

Offaly had way too much firepower for Longford and it was their more clinical finishing of better chances created that earned them the new Division 4 silverware.

Allianz FL Division 4 Round 2: Offally 0-13 Waterford 1-4: Waterford’s early season momentum hit the buffers in foggy and damp conditions at O’Connor Park yesterday afternoon as an early red card for midfielder Shane Ahearne left them hugely disadvantaged.

St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-13 Rhode (Offaly) 0-06

What was expected to be a fiercely contested clash between two clubs that have been regular participants in the Leinster club championship surprisingly proved a one-sided encounter as Rhode overwhelmed Moorefield.

Rhode (Offaly) 2-09 St Patrick’s (Louth) 0-10

Rhode 0-13 Edenderry 1-7

Wicklow 3-12 Offaly 0-17

Wicklow 3-12 Offaly 0-17

Longford 0-19 Offaly 0-15

Kildare could be about to lose another senior footballer to the AFL, with reports in Australia suggesting that Seán Hurley is expected to join Fremantle in October.

UL Huskies 80 Killester 59

Paul McGinley’s love/hate relationship with the PGA Centenary course continued with Europe’s Ryder Cup captain delighted to make the cut in the Johnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles.

Kildare 0-19 Offaly 1-12

Offaly manager Emmet McDonnell has kept faith with the side which beat Tipperary last time out for Saturday's Allianz Football League Division 4 final against Limerick at Croke Park (throw-in 5pm).

Offaly 2-10 Tipperary 1-08

Tomás Ó Sé returns to the Kerry side for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Dublin at Fitzgerald Stadium.

London 1-05 Offaly 1-13

Offaly 1-9 Kildare 1-12

St Patrick’s (Louth) 1-09 Rhode (Offaly) 1-07

Rhode 0-15 Clara 1-06

They were very tentative early on, but once Kildare got going they had way too many gears for a committed but outgunned Offaly.

Kildare 0-19 Offaly 0-6

Laois edged an entertaining battle against an Offaly side, minus Ciarán McManus and Niall McNamee at the opening of the new Mountmellick GAA Clubhouse by GAA President Liam O’Neill last night.

Offaly held off a spirited fightback from 14-man Kildare to book their place in the Leinster U21 FC semi-final against Louth.

A devastating third quarter in which Offaly outscored Meath 1-3 to no score was the key for Paschal Kelleghan’s charges as they secured a Leinster U21FC quarter-final berth against Kildare next week.

Mickey Harte has blamed “media hysteria” for ensuring All-Ireland Club JFC finalisists Derrytresk “couldn’t get a fair trial”.

It was freezing in Belfield last night and this Sigerson Cup first-round match did little to raise the mercury.

NEW Kerry U21 coach Eamonn Fitzmaurice has moved quickly to put an impressive back-room team in place for next season — including former Munster rugby forward John O’Sullivan as physical trainer.

NIALL McNAMEE and Niall Darby hit 13 points between them, as 2008 champions Rhode booked their place in the Offaly SFC final with this impressive performance at O’Connor Park on Saturday.

All-Ireland SFC Round 3 qualifier