Westmeath 1-12 Kildare 1-11: Shot down in spring, but singing in summer. Such is the way of Westmeath under Tom Cribbin these last couple of seasons.

The opposition and the defensive challenge was a novel one for Dublin but the end result was familiar as the All-Ireland favourites strode to a fifth consecutive Leinster football title success at Croke Park.

Westmeath produced a dream ten minutes to knock Wexford out of the Leinster football championship and set up a provincial semi-final for themselves against Meath in two week's time.

Cork midfielder Fintan Goold insists the county’s experiences in last year’s Allianz FL Division 1 ensure nobody will be getting carried away with the good start in the current campaign.

Allianz FL Division 1 Round 2: Westmeath 2-12 Galway 2-13: It’s an awful pity that Paddy Sweeney didn’t live to see this day. A stalwart of the Killannin club which also produced Kevin Walsh, Sweeney also served as an officer of Galway football board but was killed in a work accident over a year ago.

WESTMEATH 3-9 MAYO 2-17

Dublin 0-14 Westmeath 1-7

Westmeath 1-07 Dublin 0-14

Westmeath 0-11 Dublin 0-12

Long-serving goalkeeper Gary Connaughton, who won an historic first Leinster SFC title with Westmeath in 2004, has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

Out of Dodge and into the next round, Kerry’s get out of jail card trick just about fooled Westmeath in a horrid affair in Mullingar yesterday.

Westmeath 1-12 Kerry 2-10

Westmeath footballer Denis Glennon says he and his colleagues got permission from Lake County manager Pat Flanagan to line out in a club league fixture on Tuesday night.

Callum McCormack has played his way into the Westmeath team to face Kerry in Sunday's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier in Mullingar (throw-in 3pm).

Tyrrellspass clubman Darren Quinn will replace Gary Connaughton in goal for Westmeath's All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier against Louth on Saturday.

Boston-based Gary Connaughton has given a resounding vote of confidence to his replacement between the Westmeath football posts for Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier clash against Louth, at Mullingar.

Westmeath's long-serving goalkeeper and captain Gary Connaughton is unlikely to feature for the county again this summer, as he plans to work in America.

Kildare 3-23 Westmeath 1-12

WESTMEATH and Cavan shared the spoils in this very poor NFL Division 3 game at Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday.

SHANE LENNON will have good reason to remember the first National League match played at the Geraldines grounds at Haggardstown, near Dundalk, on Saturday night.

Westmeath stumbled in the second half as Kildare overturned a half-time deficit to qualify for next Sunday's O'Byrne Cup final, while last year's runners-up Louth beat UCD in the other semi-final.

Westmeath 0-12 Dublin 1-8, Mullingar

The mother of a 21-year-old man killed in an horrific crash in Co Donegal five years ago has said Sunday's collision - in which eight people died - "brings it all back".

Dublin 1-12 Westmeath 0-9, Parnell Park

Families members of two of the five young people who died in one of the worst car accidents in the history of the State have today settled their High Court action for more than €400,000.

A former Dublin Bus employee who was arrested by gardaí while driving a bus after they found over €400,000 worth of cocaine at his home has been remanded in custody pending sentence by Judge Tony Hunt.

A man is to appear in court later this year in connection with the deaths of five people in a car crash, it was announced today.

The families of five young men killed in a car crash in Donegal more than two years ago are demanding an update from the DPP about the investigation into the tragedy.

ST VINCENT'S (Dublin) 2-8 TYRRELLSPASS (Westmeath) 0-7, Cusack Park

BUNCRANA was a town loath to awaken yesterday, its shop shutters drawn and windows darkened as if to acknowledge the new day would be to let in the pain it bore.

Community leaders in Buncrana, Co Donegal, today appealed for action to cut the number of young people dying in road accidents as hundreds gathered for the funerals of those killed in last weekend’s tragic crash.

Four of the five young people killed in Saturday's horrific road accident in Co Donegal are due to be buried in Buncrana this morning.

The Government is being urged to draw up a separate road safety strategy for Co Donegal after crashes in the county claimed six young lives this weekend.

Five young people who died in a two-car collision in Co Donegal early today were tonight named by gardaí.

Antrim 1-18 Laois 3-12

Down 0-09 Antrim 3-13

Ulster have named their side to face Connacht in the Inter-Provincial hurling championship in Casement Park on Saturday.

Cork and Antrim face off in the All-Ireland quarter-final today for the first time since 1990,in a curtain-raiser the Rebels are strong favourites to win.

Antrim have made one change to the side that won the Ulster final replay for Sunday's All-Ireland quarter-final encounter with Cork at Croke Park.

LAOIS have axed full-back Colm Byrne and right-corner forward Ian Fitzgerald for their Leinster SFC final replay with Westmeath at Croke Park on Saturday.

Antrim 1-15 Down 1-15