Conor Barry’s Cavan set up a TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football quarter-final clash with champions Cork on August 20, but they had to work hard for it against Laois today.

IT has taken some time to manifest itself, but ladies football and camogie are finally being hit by the same unemployment and emigration epidemic which has had such a negative impact on their male counterparts in the GAA.

LAST year’s runners-up, Dublin, advance to the TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC final after defeating Laois (1-8 to 0-9) in a pulsating encounter at Carlow’s Dr Cullen Park on Saturday.

After an absence of six years, the University of Limerick have recaptured the O’Connor Cup, the third level ladies football championship title.

The Republic of Ireland Womens Under-19 team will play Finland tomorrow in an international friendly fixture.