Scotstown (Monaghan) 1-15 Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-15 (Ulster Club SFC): It has been a very difficult week for Derry kingpins Slaughtneil. 

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

Scotstown 2-16 Clontibret 0-07

Queens University, Belfast made history on Saturday when winning their first Intervarsities O’Connor Cup at Waterford IT with victory over DCU (4-10 to 1-9).

Thomastown (Kilkenny) 2-13 Rathmolyon (Meath)1-7

If perseverance and commitment count for anything, then Pat Murray will win the West Coast Hotels-sponsored South of Ireland at Lahinch today.

Monaghan 1-12 Antrim 1-9

Eamonn McEneaney has revealed he is tempted to throw Tommy Freeman into battle at Clones tomorrow.

Limerick manager John Allen has handed championship debuts to Conor Allis and Shane Dowling for Sunday’s Munster SHC quarter-final against Tipperary in Semple Stadium.

A miserable afternoon for Monaghan at Healy Park ended with the news that Westmeath had beaten Derry to condemn the Farney men to Division Three next season.

Tyrone 1-16 Monaghan 1-6

Galway finished with a flourish to claim a vital victory at Pearse Park in Longford, but Monaghan manager Eamon McEnaney labelled the decision to stage this game at a neutral venue as farcical.

Monaghan bounced back dramatically from their disappointing performance against Derry last weekend to run out comfortable winners over Louth in a dramatic tie in Clones yesterday.

Monaghan 2-24 Louth 1-15

A hungrier Derry secured their first points of this League campaign in this disappointing encounter in Celtic Park on Saturday night.

An exhibition of long-range shooting from Monaghan would have been the talking point from this Division 2 affair were it not for two ugly melees.

Seamus McEnaney got one over his former charges as Meath had a winning start to the Allianz Football League Division 2 at the expense of his native Monaghan at Navan on Saturday night.

Dublin goalkeeper Shane Supple claims he was approached by Kildare management about transferring to the county last year after missing out on the Blues panel.

LATTON were crowned Monaghan champions for the third time in six years after a disappointing SFC final in Inniskeen yesterday.

THE Blue September Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland 7s final was an all-Down affair and Bryansford prevailed after a cracking game to win the title for the fifth time at Glenalbyn.

DUNSHAUGHLIN turned the clock back to reach the Meath SFC final for the first time since 2002 when completing their three-in-a-row sequence of success over hot favourites Donaghmore/Ashbourne at Páirc Tailteann yesterday.

Offaly 1-18 Monaghan 1-10

Tyrone 1-13 Monaghan 1-11

ULTIMATELY they went down anyway — but not without a fight.

SEAMUS McENANEY’S stock was already low in Meath after the opening three rounds of the Allianz League but it plummeted further yesterday after a dismal display at Páirc Tailteann.

CORK County Board have called for fair play after All-Ireland-winning captain Graham Canty was snubbed for a trip to America on St Patrick’s Day.

UCC 0-10 UUJ 0-7

AN ATTACKING masterclass by Tyrone full-forward Matthew Donnelly underpinned UUJ’s triumph over NUI Maynooth in yesterday’s first Sigerson Cup semi-final in Belfield.

A STYLISH display from UUJ saw them advance to the Sigerson Cup semi-finals with ease, after they demolished Carlow IT at Belfield yesterday.

SEAMUS McENANEY last night hailed the finest performance of his Meath managerial reign as the Royal County edged out Sligo with ease in Navan.

CORK IT claimed just one second-half point, and rued seven first half wides as a more clinical UUJ secured an Ulster Bank Sigerson Cup quarter-final berth at Newcastle yesterday.

IT had been billed as the beginning of a new era for Meath football but Seamus McEnaney’s first game in charge of the Royals was a losing outing, with UCD snatching a dramatic victory in the refixed O’Byrne Cup opener in Navan last night.

Meath 0-10 UCD 1-9

JACK O’CONNOR has moved 2009 All-Ireland winning captain Darran O’Sullivan from his customary forward role to left-half back for tomorrow’s McGrath Cup opener against Tralee IT.

Monaghan 1-14 Tyrone 0-16

THIS will be a big weekend on and off the course for several of our leading golfers.

Monaghan 0-13 Armagh 0-12 (aet)

Hamburg's Philipp Westermann fired the first sub-par round of the week to race into the clubhouse lead in the Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.

Gale force winds sent scores soaring in the opening round of the Irish Amateur Open at Royal Dublin.

NO place for Tadhg Kennelly, and a experimental midfield partnership of Anthony Maher and Mike Quirke, might suggest Kerry are half-hearted about tomorrow’s Allianz Football League final.

LEINSTER include the three outstanding players of the amateur season so far — Shane Lowry, Niall Kearney and Paul O’Hanlon — in their side for the Interprovincial Championship getting under way at Athlone tomorrow.

Defending champion Darren Crowe crashed out of the weather-delayed South of Ireland championship at Lahinch.

Forrest Little's Eoin Arthurs took advantage of perfect early morning conditions to scorch to a six-under par 66 and a two stroke lead in the East of Ireland Amateur Championship at County Louth.

Fermanagh 2-8 Monaghan 0-10