A number of young players will make the step up to Senior Championship football when Kildare and Offaly meet in this evening's opening Leinster SFC quarter-final at Croke Park (throw-in 5pm).

Offaly 1-11 Laois 1-8

Two brilliant Dean Cummins first half goals helped Offaly senior football kingpins Edenderry to a 2-16 to 1-12 quarter-final victory over Erin Rovers at O’Connor Park, Tullamore on Saturday.

New Offaly manager Gerry Cooney has named his team to face Longford in their Allianz Football League Division 3 opener against Longford at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park on Sunday (throw-in 2.30pm).

The Leinster Junior squad will play two friendlies before the start of the Interprovincial series against Barnhall (in Barnhall) on Saturday, August 13 and against Clontarf (in Castle Avenue) on Saturday, August 20.

FOUR of the five teenage girls who were killed in yesterday’s horror bus crash were pupils at the Loreto Convent in Navan.