Denis Russell helped Clare through to the second round of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers at Casement Park.

Limerick 2-05 Clare 0-08

LIMERICK supporters may wonder if there is life after Liam Kearns as their senior footballers gear up for their first Munster championship game in five years without their former manager.

CLARE have left a vacancy on their team for Sunday’s Bank of Ireland Munster SFC clash with Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds.

Nemo Rangers 2-12 St Senan’s 1-6

Monaleen (Limerick) 1-7 St. Senan’s Kilkee 0-10

St. Senan’s Kilkee 3-8 Kilmurry-Ibrickane 1-9

BRIAN McGUIGAN will be back for Tyrone’s Ulster SFC clash with either Cavan or Antrim. McGuigan is due home on June 9 from Australia, 10 days ahead of the Clones clash.

FORMER star forward Joe McKenna was last night elected interim manager of the Limerick senior hurling team by his fellow selectors.

Michael Ellard and Brendan Larkin

PRIOR to last Sunday, Odran O’Dwyer could have told you what it was like to represent his country on the Melbourne Cricket Ground but had never played at Croke Park.

Clare and Sligo face off today in the inaugural Tommy Murphy Cup final at Croke Park.

Clare and Sligo have both named their teams ahead of Sunday's Tommy Murphy Cup final at Croke Park.

CORK County Board Chairman Jim Forbes remained tight-lipped last night about the possibility of an appeal against the suspensions handed down against three of the Leesiders minor footballers.

Cork 0-15 Clare 0-11

Clare 0-11 Cork 0-14

Galway 1-5 Louth 0-5

Clare 0-07 Cork 0-08

Billy Morgan's underachievers Cork take on a a re-invigorated Clare side at Cusack Park today, knowing the season is over for the losers.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie tomorrow in Cusack Park, Ennis.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie on Saturday in Cusack Park, Ennis.

Cork scoring talisman Colin Corkery, Brendan Jer O'Sullivan and and Nicholas Murphy return to the side to face Clare in their all-Munster football qualifier tie on Saturday in Cusack Park, Ennis.

WEXFORD manager John Conran has given a vote of confidence to the side which defeated Kilkenny for Sunday’s Leinster SHC final against Offaly.

Clare have won their first ever Bank of Ireland SFC qualifier as, helped by the sharp shooting of corner forwards Denis Russell (1-06) and Michael O’Dwyer (0-05), they brushed aside Sligo 1-15 to 1-07 at Cusack Park, Ennis to progress to round two.

THERE are four debutantes on the Cork Senior football team for Sunday’s Munster Championship semi-final against Kerry in Killarney.

Clare 0-09 Kerry 2-10

DARA Ó SÉ returns to the Kerry team, while teenagers Enda Coughlan and Sean O’Meara will make their Munster SFC debuts when Clare take on the newly crowned National League champions at Cusack Park, Ennis on Sunday.

LIMERICK will be without team captain Tommy Stack for their make-or-break Allianz National Football League clash with Armagh at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday.

IT'S a long way from Clare to Tullamore, and an even longer road home yesterday for senior football manager John Kennedy and his charges following another inconsistent National Football League display.

BRILLIANT wing-forward Stephen Kelly is a surprise omission from the Limerick team to play Galway in Division 1B of the Allianz NFL at Ballinasloe on Sunday.

13-man Donegal came from behind against Monaghan to maintain their 100% Division 2A record - winning out 3-06 to 1-11 at Ballyshannon - but Roscommon will head into the three-week break topping the pile on points difference after their 2-12 to 2-07 defeat of London at Ruislip.

MEATH will still be without Trevor Giles, Daithi Regan, David Crimmins and Ollie Murphy for their Division I B clash with Galway at Páirc Táilteann on Sunday.

Limerick 1-9 Clare 1-6

Clare 1-14 Tipperary 1-10

IT MIGHT NOT have been pretty, but the historians won’t give a second thought to the quality of An Ghaeltacht’s first ever provincial football success.

St. Senan's (Clare) 0-14 Cahir (Tipperary) 0-10

Goals by Gerry McGowan and Dessie Sloyan during a blistering seven minute spell at the start of the second half powered Sligo to a deserved win over Clare at Markievicz Park.

Fermanagh second half sub Raymond Gallagher was the star of the show in this vital home win at Enniskillen.

Clare upset the form book with a dramatic 1-09 to 1-07 win over Sligo in an action-packed Allianz National Football League Division 1B game at Markievicz Park.