Longford booked their place in the O’Byrne Cup semi-final for the fourth year in a row with six points to spare over Carlow in Glennon Brothers Pearse Park.

Perhaps history will repeat itself and a Jack O'Connor-led team will bounce back from a loss to Longford with a strong season but, for now, it's frustration for the new Kildare manager.

St Brendan’s upset the odds when they defeated 2015 finalists Killarney Legion in the first of this year’s Garvey’s Kerry SFC quarter-finals at Austin Stack Park.

East Kerry’s dominance of Kerry underage football continued as their minors completed the four in a row as they saw off the stern challenge of St Brendan’s side at a rain-lashed Austin Stack Park last night.

Qualifier specialists Tyrone are up and running again, and while a four points margin at Pearse Park will not inspire supreme confidence, they are set to gain momentum along the back door route.

Both sides kicked some wonderful points though remarkably, the second half of extra time yielded no score.

Losing an All-Ireland semi-final is usually enough of a penance in itself but to follow that up with defeat in a national decider just two days later is a whole other level of purgatory. So, spare a thought today for the students at Midleton CBS.

Midleton CBS's dreams of All-Ireland glory came to naught for the second time in three days on Wednesday afternoon with an agonising loss to Carndonagh CS in the final of the FAI Schools Dr Tony O'Neill Senior Cup.

Yorkshire Carnegie 43 Munster A 29: Munster A’s valiant second-half fightback was all in vain as relieved Yorkshire Carnegie eventually claimed victory to all but seal Pool Three’s top spot in the British & Irish Cup.

Legion 2-10 Feale Rangers 1-11: Two second-half goals helped a below-par Legion beat Feale Rangers and advance to the last eight of the Kerry senior football championship at Fitzgerald Stadium yesterday.

Kildare 2-15 Longford 1-9: Kildare collected their second Leinster minor title in three years with a comfortable nine-point victory over Longford.

St. Francis College, Rochestown remain on course for an unprecedented ‘Quadruple’ following an exciting one point victory over favourites, St. Brendan’s, Killarney in this Corn Uí Mhuirí (Munster Colleges Senior ‘A’ football) semi-final at Mallow today.

TG4 ALL-IRELAND LADIES SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Mayo 3-8 Westmeath 1-13

Leinster ‘A’ 44 Leeds Carnegie 17

Cork C of I 3 UCC 3 (C of I win 5-4 on penalties after aet)

St Brendan’s College, Killarney 2-8PS Chorca Dhuibhne 1-9

Mayo 2-13 Tyrone 1-13

Mayo 2-13 Tyrone 1-13

Philly McMahon is the only change to the Dublin team that beat Kerry for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC final with Mayo.

Mayo 3-19 Monaghan 1-12

Kerry 2-14 Mayo 2-13

Mayo 3-19 Monaghan 1-12

Kerry 2-14 Mayo 2-13

It should help, living in the same house as a two-time young footballer of the year in the weeks leading up to an All-Ireland MFC semi-final. But for Cillian O’Connor’s younger brother Diarmuid, talking about football in the house has become something both brothers want to avoid.

Cork 0-14 Mayo 0-07

Tesco Homegrown Ladies National Football League Division 1 final

Monaghan 4-15

The talent coming through from Cork and Kerry’s underage teams rolls on.

Galway came from ten points down to stun Mayo in yesterday’s Connacht Ladies SFC final at McHale Park in Castlebar.

Monaghan turned on the style in the second half to book their place in the Ulster MFC semi-finals.

Cora Staunton destroyed Galway to ensure Mayo made an immediate return to the top flight after the Division 2 Bord Gáis Energy league final at Parnell Park on Saturday.

Mayo 4-17 Galway 2-7

Our Lady’s Secondary School from Belmullet in Mayo snatched victory in the dying minutes to knock reigning champions Coláiste Íosaef, Kilmallock out of the All-Ireland.

Munster A 6 Cornish Pirates 10

REVENGE will be on Munster A minds in Clonmel tonight (7pm) as they tackle Cornish Pirates, the team they lost to in the inaugural British and Irish Cup final clash a couple of years ago.

IF it ain’t broke, don’t fix it seems to be the mantra for both Mayo manager James Horan and Roscommon’s Fergal O’Donnell as they have named unchanged sides from their respective semi-final wins for Sunday’s Connacht final in Dr Hyde Park on Sunday.

Tyrone 1-15 South Down 0-11

The teams for this weekend's round of AIL rugby fixtures have been announced today.

GOALKEEPER Brian Corcoran embellished a growing reputation for saving vital penalty strokes as Bandon Grammar School claimed their sixth Munster Senior Schoolboys Cup in succession in dramatic fashion at Garryduff yesterday.

ASHTON SCHOOL go into today’s Munster Senior Schoolboys Cup final at Garryduff (2.30pm) against Bandon Grammar School hell-bent on returning the balance of power to Cork city after a six-year famine.