Slaughtneil 1-8 Ballinderry 0-9

Limerick GAA chiefs revealed they took the county senior hurling management to task following a below-par performance in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

Early in the first half of Saturday’s All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final, St Vincent’s corner-back Michael Concarr went on a solo-run which covered the entire length of the pitch.

St Vincent’s 2-14 Ballinderry 1-13

St Vincent’s of Dublin will play Mayo kingpins Castlebar Mitchels in the AIB GAA All-Ireland club SFC final at Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day, after the two teams emerged from a pair of titanic and hugely entertaining tussles in today’s semi-finals.

Ballinderry Shamrocks (Derry) 3-9Kingdom Kerry Gaels (London) 2-7

Ballinderry Shamrocks 1-13 Glenswilly 2-06

CROSSMAGLEN 1-8 KILCOO 3-10 (AET)

Ballinderry (Derry) 1-08 Scotstown (Monaghan) 0-10

All-Ireland Senior Club Football Champions St. Brigid's claimed their fourth Roscommon Senior Football title in succession, while elsewhere Ballinderry Shamrocks, Roslea and Longford Slashers claimed county final wins.

Ballinderry will have to wait to see who they face in the Derry SFC final after two contrasting semi-finals at the weekend.

The first half dismissal of Eoin Bradley aided a comfortable Ballinderry win over Glenullin in the big game of the Derry SFC last night.

Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone) 0-11 Ballinderry (Derry) 0-10

Errigal Ciaran captain Enda McGinley is “shocked and disappointed” by manager Ronan McGuckin’s decision not to take charge of them against his native Ballinderry in Sunday week’s Ulster club SFC quarter-final.

Ballinderry gave themselves a chance of becoming the first team to win back-to-back Derry titles in over a decade with a 1-8 to 0-10 win over Banagher on Saturday.

AN altogether familiar scoreline but the All-Ireland champions’ way of going about it was far from usual.

Crossmaglen Rangers are on course to retain their AIB Ulster Club SFC title after coming through a tough examination from Ballinderry this afternoon.

A GOAL inside the opening minute was the crucial score as Ballinderry held off Dromore challenge to set up a semi-final clash with Crossmaglen.

DROMORE goalkeeper Peter Ward believes Ballinderry would have won a handful of All-Ireland titles in the past 15 years had their golden era not coincided with the reign of the country’s greatest club, Crossmaglen.

JAMES KIELT has rejected suggestions the fallout from the broken jaw he suffered in a club game was a factor in Derry’s defeat to Tyrone in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final.

A five-point haul from Oisin McConville was the difference as Crossmaglen Rangers secured their seventh Ulster Club SFC title at Brewster Park in Enniskillen today.

BALLINDERRY SHAMROCKS (Derry) 1-10 CROSSMAGLEN RANGERS (Armagh) 1-10, Brewster Park

Cavan Gaels (Cavan) 1-07 St. Gall's (Antrim) 0-07, Casement Park

A LIMERICK farmer, who combines cattle breeding and milk production with managing his Glebe Properties house building business, continued a successful year for his dairy cattle at Iverk Show in Co Kilkenny last week.

New Derry senior football manager Paddy Crozier has confirmed his panel for the opening months of the 2006 season.

THE alluring smell of fried steaks wafts from the club-house out onto the frosty Nemo Rangers’ pitch where Billy Morgan is giving his charges one of their most gruelling training sessions in weeks.

Errigal-Ciaran centre-forward Mark Harte has been named by the Ulster GAA Writers as the winner of the Bass Merit Award for November after helping his club to the final of the AIB Ulster Club Championship.

NOW for the hard part. Errigal Ciaran took three games to overcome the might of Armagh champions Crossmaglen in the Ulster club championship.

Ballinderry defeated Tir Chonaill Gaels 3-14 to 0-06 in a one-sided All-Ireland Club Championship quarter-final at Ruislip today.

Derry's Ballinderry have won the Ulster club final at Casement Park.