Tyrone reached their first All-Ireland U21 Football Championship final since 2003 with a hard-working win over Roscommon, embroidered by the grace of ace finisher Lee Brennan.

Two first-half goals against Armagh helped Tyrone into the Ulster U21 final for the first time in three years last night.

Tyrone 0-17 Fermanagh 0-07: Mark Bradley and Mark Kavanagh formed a deadly strike force as Tyrone booked a place in the Ulster U21 Championship semi-finals.

St Mullins 0-9 Naomh Eoin, Myshall 0-7

St Patrick’s Athletic 6 Drogheda United 0

Airtricity Premier Division

Cork City 2 West Ham United 6

Before this game at Turner’s Cross last night, some Cork City fans unfurled a banner imploring that the club sack ‘the Dub’, manager Tommy Dunne.

AIRTRICITY LEAGUE PREMIER DIVISION

Dundalk 2 Cork City 0

Munster A Schools 13 Leinster A Schools 22

Christian Brothers College, Cork, staged a magnificent second-half fight back to claim a well-deserved victory over Crescent Comprehensive inyesterday’s final of the Kidney Cup at Dooradoyle.

THE Professional Footballers’ Association of Ireland (PFAI) is to set up a referees’ seminar as calls for more communication between players and match officials arose following Sunday’s FAI Ford Cup final.

SLIGO ROVERS moved two points clear in the Airtricity Premier League following a scoreless draw at the Showgrounds.

MCDOWELL’S pub in Inchicore rose in acclamation of Pete Mahon when the St Patrick’s Athletic boss popped in after his side’s win against Shakhter Karagandy on Thursday night.

SHAMROCK ROVERS moved back to the top of the Airtricity League Premier Division table when a brilliant 52nd-minute goal from Gary Twigg gave them a narrow victory over previous leaders St Patrick’s Athletic at Tallaght Stadium yesterday.

THREE gift goals proved the undoing of Carlow hurlers in this sub-standard preliminary Leinster SHC tie at Dr Cullen Park yesterday as a focused Westmeath side deservedly advanced to a home meeting with Galway.

THIS could have been an afternoon fraught with tension for the Clare hurlers but transpired to be a carefree stroll in Cusack Park, Ennis yesterday.

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

The hurlers of Carlow and Offaly will have to meet again to decide the Walsh Shield title after today's game at Dr Cullen park was abandoned due to a serious injury to David Kenny in extra-time.

Carlow 2-13 Westmeath 0-16

Cork 0-16 Down 0-15

All-Ireland SFC Quarter-Final

CONOR COUNIHAN has given a vote of confidence to the Cork team that stuttered over Limerick after extra-time last weekend for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC tie with Roscommon.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has opted to field an unchanged team for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Roscommon.

All-Ireland SFC Qualifier Round 4

AT the home of Munster rugby last night, Sunderland’s Premier League class proved the difference against a local XI — but Limerick city picked up a bonus point on a good night for the city.

KILKENNY U21 boss Michael Walsh is expecting a stern examination of his side’s credentials when they face off in a repeat of last year’s decider against Dublin in tonight’s Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U21HC semi-final in Nowlan Park at 7.30pm.

PEARSE O’NEILL is on course for Cork’s Munster SFC semi-final against Kerry on June 6 after returning to county colours on Saturday.

Cork 1-17 Mayo 0-12

AFTER prolonged absences, Alan Quirke, Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty, Donnacha O’Connor, Kevin McMahon and Colm O’Neill return to the Cork team for Sunday’s final game in the preliminary rounds of the Allianz NFL against Mayo at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

SEAN CAVANAGH will return to the Tyrone starting line-up for the first time since last August’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Kildare for tomorrow night’s crunch NFL Division 1 showdown against Kerry in Healy Park, Omagh.

SATURDAY night in Páirc Uí Rinn was an instructive league exercise that will assist both Conor Counihan and Pat Gilroy when it comes to finalising their championship blueprints.

CONOR COUNIHAN’S Cork senior football side got off to a winning start in their first run out of the season in a challenge against CIT in the CIT grounds in Bishopstown last night.

Kerry 0-16 Cork 1-9

NEMO Rangers five-in-a-row title dream ended when they crashed out of the Cork SFC at the quarter-final stage at the hands of West Cork divisional outfit Carbery in Bandon last night.

NEMO RANGERS remain on course to win their fourth successive Cork SFC title following victory over Castlehaven in a dour quarter-final replay at Castletown-kenneigh on Saturday.

Kerry 3-14 Cork 2-13

Influential Cork half-forward Donncha O'Connor has been cleared to play for the Rebels in this Sunday's GAA All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final replay against Kerry, after having his four-week suspension overturned by the GAA's Central Hearings Committee (CHC) at Croke Park last night.

Cork manager Conor Counihan has named an unchanged team for Sunday's GAA Football All-Ireland senior championship semi-final showdown with Kerry.

Cork 2-11 Kildare 1-11

Michael Cussen, who scored a vital 1-01 in last month's Munster final win over Kerry, has failed to force his way in the Cork team for Sunday's GAA Football All-Ireland quarter-final clash with Kildare (throw-in 2pm).

Cork 1-16 Kerry 1-11