Defending champions Dublin underlined their TG4 All-Ireland SFC title credentials with a comprehensive Group 2 triumph against Waterford at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise.

Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald believes his young side have the potential to return to past glories, as they clung on for an inspirational victory over champions Dublin in the Lidl National Football League Division 1 semi-final yesterday.

Orla Finn starred with 13 points in the sun as Cork knocked reigning Lidl National Football League Division 1 champions Dublin off their perch, and booked their place in the final with victory at Nowlan Park.

The Cork actor won the award for his work in Martin McDonagh's "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" which ran in the West End last year.

Dublin ladies star Lyndsey Davey reckons the row between Mayo players and management should have been settled by now and took some of the gloss off the All-Ireland final.

Dublin 3-11 Cork 1-12

It mightn’t have been a headline where you were, but that’s not the point.

It mightn’t have been a headline where you were, but that’s not the point, writes Michael Moynihan

A woman has been charged by police in England after being arrested while trying to scale the front gates of Buckingham Palace in London.

Dublin, who had lost the last three finals to Cork, finally got their hands on the Brendan Martin Cup.

Captain Sinéad Aherne led the way with 2-7 as Dublin booked their place in a fourth successive TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football final.

Sligo 3-12 Leitrim 3-7: Five unanswered points in the last 10 minutes set up Sligo’s five-point defeat of plucky neighbours Leitrim in an eventually enthralling Connacht MFC semi-final at Markievicz Park.

She was also disqualified from owning a dog for 10 years and ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid work.

A garda sergeant injured during an incident with a member of the McBrearty family from Donegal has been awarded more than €55,000 in compensation by the High Court.

The proposed merger between Charleville and Clonmel credit unions has been shelved.

Almost 40,000 members remain in the dark about a proposed merger of two large credit unions in Munster.

You know the rivalry-but-not-actually a rivalry that exists, or did exist, between Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova?

USA: Police say a central Pennsylvania man beat his friend for refusing to eat ramen noodles.

A Swedish House Mafia fan, who was one of a number of people stabbed and beaten up at the group’s infamous concerts in the Phoenix Park four years ago, has settled his €60,000 damages claim against the organisers.

Dublin manager Gregory McGonigle has accused champions Cork of “cynicism” and “systematic” fouling during last Saturday’s Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 semi-final.

A dominant second-half display by Ephie Fitzgerald’s Cork has seen the holders qualify for a ninth successive Lidl Ladies National Football League Division 1 final – and within touching distance of the four-in-a-row.

Sligo 2-15 Kildare 2-14: Sligo boss Niall Carew came back to haunt his home county as his side ended Kildare’s perfect run in this Division 3 campaign at St Conleth’s Park yesterday.

Employers are being urged to engage more with their staff, as a new survey shows that 70% of workers’ productivity drops as they see out notice periods before changing jobs.

Sigerson Cup - UCD 0-11 NUIG 1-6: UCD may have a string of Dublin All-Ireland winners in their ranks but it was the accuracy of Westmeath’s John Heslin that saw them over the line in a good contest in Dangan yesterday.

This was special, arguably the most special of the bunch.

If ever a game illustrated what winning takes to Dublin captain Lyndsey Davey, it was last year’s gut-wrenching All-Ireland final defeat to Cork, when maybe some of the Dublin players allowed their eyes drift towards the prize. Now fighting fires off the field, Davey won’t be fazed when Cork turn up the heat tomorrow...

Muireann Ní Scanaill (Dublin full-back)

It was a bad day for Munster golf as Muskerry and Douglas crashed out in their respective semi-finals of the AIG Cups and Shields National Finals at Carton House.

Dublin 2-16 Armagh 2-5: Dublin boss Gregory McGonigle hailed the intensity, work-rate and discipline of his players after the Sky Blues easily defeated Armagh on Saturday to book a TG4 All-Ireland ladies senior football final clash with Cork.

Dublin held off a stiff challenge from Monaghan to prevail in their TG4 All-Ireland Ladies SFC quarter-final at St Tiernach’s Park in Clones this afternoon.

Clare goalkeeper Patrick Kelly has reiterated the county hurling squad’s faith in manager Davy Fitzgerald.

Bernard Brogan insists Dublin have parked the controversial ‘Davey Byrne Affair’ which saw the panellist suffer a broken nose before a recent challenge match against Armagh at DCU.

Fifteen British people have been confirmed dead in the Tunisia attack, with a warning that the toll could rise.

One-sided games usually have no major talking points and that was more or less the case for the three televised hurling games this weekend.

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St Mary’s College 1-10 NUI Galway 1-7

Sligo IT 0-8 NUIG 0-8

NUI Galway 0-10 Roscommon 0-09: Roscommon manager John Evans felt NUI Galway showed more resolve as the Galway students edged a tempestuous affair at Ballyforan.