Goalkeeper David Clarke has been passed for it for Mayo’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final with Chris Barrett replacing the injured Tom Cunniffe in the Connacht champions’ only change.

Mayo co-manager Noel Connelly says David Clarke and Tom Cunniffe are likely to be available for Sunday week’s All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin.

If you want to see how women’s lives have changed, just flick through a woman’s magazine from the 1960s. Back then says Barbara Scully they obsessed with housework whereas now Irish women are sold glamour, creative careers and charmed lifestyles.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-12

Keegan’s return sharpens Kerry and Mayo focus as venue furore fades into the background.

Tomás Ó Sé has questioned the kick-out policy of Kerry goalkeeper Brian Kelly during the second half of Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final draw.

Mayo goalkeeper Rob Hennelly has rejected the common belief the county don’t have a marquee forward. The claim has been made for most of James Horan’s term in charge but Hennelly need only point at Cillian O’Connor to dispute it.

Our lowdown of this weekend's GAA action

Cluainín 3-14 Carrick 1-10

St Brigid’s 1-13 Western Gaels 0-09

Mayo 1-16 Tyrone 0-13

Andy Moran made his first start in Mayo colours since last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final in a challenge match against Cavan at James Stephens Park in Ballina.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin was satisfied after his side reached the Allianz League Division final with a 2-16 to 0-16 triumph over Mayo at Croke Park.

Salthill/Knocknacarra 0-8 St Brigid’s 0-15

Roscommon and Louth recorded victories over Monaghan and Sligo in the Nicky Rackard Cup respectively yesterday, while today Leitrim ousted rivals Longford from the Lory Meagher Cup.

MAYO boss James Horan may be without three players for the start of the Allianz Football League.

ST BRIGID’S booked their place in the last-four of the All-Ireland with an eight-point victory over 14-man Fulham Irish at Ruislip.

THE ability of the Mayo footballers to confound their critics took yet another twist yesterday as they summoned up a courageous effort to ambush Cork at McHale Park, Castlebar.

St Brigid's (Roscommon) 0-13 Nemo Rangers (Cork) 1-8

A man who shot dead a Kilkenny postmaster failed to overturn his murder conviction today.

CHILDREN suffering from cataracts and tumours on their eyes – one just six weeks old – could lose their sight as a direct result of cutbacks at the country’s leading paediatric hospital.

A Libyan teenager who threatened to follow an employee of the Refugee Reception and Integration Office home and burn down her house after his request for accommodation was refused has been given a partly suspended sentence.

A Libyan teenager who threatened to follow an employee of the Refugee Reception and Integration Office home and burn down her house after his request for accommodation was refused has had his sentence adjourned.

THE Meath football team of 2009 are beginning to defy all handy categorisation. For a county whose rivers have run dry for a decade now, we would have thought getting to the last eight of the All-Ireland Championship would’ve sated the appetite and anything after that was for embellishment.

Connacht 2-15 Leinster 0-11

A POSTMASTER who died after being shot by an armed robber was admired for his bravery and courage and held in high regard by the community, an inquest into the man’s death heard yesterday.

A Chinese national who shot and murdered a Kilkenny Post master just two days after he took over running the post office from his father who died of cancer has been given a life sentence.

A Chinese national has been found guilty of murdering a Kilkenny postmaster who he shot in the stomach after a post office robbery that netted him more than €13,000.

A jury hearing the trial of a Chinese national who shot and killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a robbery has retired to consider its verdict at the Central Criminal Court in Dublin.

A jury hearing the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a robbery, has been told there is an absence of evidence to prove he deliberately pointed and fired the gun which killed the man.

A jury hearing the trial of a man charged with murdering a Kilkenny postmaster were told this morning the accused had no previous convictions and Gardai had checked his record with Chinese authorities.

The prosecution has closed its case in the trial of a Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a raid on a post office which netted him more than €13,000.

A Chinese national who killed a Kilkenny postmaster following a post office raid is an asylum seeker who said he had no money, could not get a work visa and was suffering from depression, the Central Criminal Court at Dublin has heard.

Witnesses who saw a Kilkenny postmaster being shot say they saw a man stopping and waving a gun at the postmaster as he chased the man along Kilkenny’s Wolfe Tone Street.

A man who is on trial for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster, who he shot following a raid that netted him about €15,000, told postal clerks "thanks" as he left, a court has heard.

A Chinese national has gone on trial in the Central Criminal Court at Dublin for the murder of a Kilkenny postmaster who he shot after stealing €13,000 from a post office on John’s Green in the city.

Fermanagh 1-11 Leitrim 1-10, Markievicz Park

Clement Cunniffe led the Leitrim scoring as the Wee county side opened their win account in NHL Division 3A - they edged out Monaghan 0-10 to 0-7 at Ballinamore this afternoon.

Passengers on a Bus Éireann bus could hold vital clues to the murder of Kilkenny postmaster Alan Cunniffe, it emerged today.

THEY were the symbols of his life. Personal reminders of a life cut so cruelly short.

Hundreds of mourners have turned out in Kilkenny today for the funeral of the postal worker shot dead last week after tackling an armed raider.

Large crowds of mourners are expected to turn out in Kilkenny today for the funeral of the postal worker shot dead last week after tackling an armed raider.

POST officers throughout the country will close for one hour today in memory of a slain colleague.

A man in his 20's has been charged with the murder of Kilkenny Postmaster Alan Cunniffe.