SEAMUS McENANEY’S appointment as Meath manager last winter may have stirred up a hornet’s nest at the time — and continues to do so — but ‘outside’ influences haven’t been confined to the man charged with guiding the senior footballers.

FORMER Meath All-Ireland winning boss Sean Boylan last night ruled out a return to inter-county management with Armagh.

THEY are aiming high once again in Cavan.

Cavan 0-13 Armagh 0-17

Cavan 0-13 Armagh 0-17

Victories in championship football do not come easy. When you are based in the toughest province you have to fight for every result as Cavan manager Donal Keoghan found out at Casement Park yesterday when his side edged out Antrim.

Cavan 1-19 Antrim 1-13

Cavan manager Donal Keoghan has named five debutants in his side to play Antrim this Sunday in the Ulster Senior Football Championship.

ROSCOMMON manager Michael Ryan gives championship debuts to three players for Sunday’s Connacht SFC clash with Galway in Pearse Stadium.

Mayo 1-19 Cavan 3-7, Castlebar

Down 0-15 Cavan 0-11

Cavan 2-11 Down 3-8

Seanie Johnston has been passed fit to start for Cavan in tomorrow night's NFL Division Two semi-final against Roscommon at Croke Park (throw-in 7.45pm).

Defender Anthony Forde and midfielder Lorcan Mulvey, who missed Cavan's Ulster SFC preliminary round defeat to Down due to suspension, have earned recalls to the Breffni Blues' side for tomorrow's All-Ireland qualifier against Kildare (Newbridge, throw-in 7pm).

Captain Benny Coulter ensured it was first blood to Down in the Ulster SFC as he scored the only goal in a 1-13 to 0-11 preliminary round win over Cavan at Casement Park.

Cavan have called on the services of world champion handballer Paul Brady for tomorrow's Bank of Ireland Ulster SFC Preliminary round clash with Down (Casement Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

NICHOLAS WALSH didn’t think things could get much worse that day as he was ferried out of Breffni Park in an ambulance with a broken bone in his leg.

THE Waterford selectors have sprung a major surprise by handing Portlaw’s Jack Hartley his debut at midfield for Sunday’s vital Division 1B National Hurling League game against Offaly in Birr.

Louth 4-11 Waterford 0-5

Seanie Johnston and Ronan Flanagan, fresh from helping DCU win its first Sigerson Cup, have both been named in the Cavan team for Sunday's NFL Division 2B outing against Tipperary (Kingspan Breffni Park, throw-in 2.30pm).

Cavan manager Martin McElkennon is to plan without the services of Michael Lyng and Paul Brady for the remainder of the NFL Division 2B campaign.

THERE is the possibility - if not indeed the probability - of a little bit of history being made today when the Vodafone Allstar hurling team for 2005 is chosen in Dublin.

Mayo 0-11 Cavan 0-8

AFTER an up and down season Cavan find themselves in the last 12 at the business end of the Bank of Ireland football championship while Meath, for a third successive season, have had the back door slammed in their face by an Ulster team.

Meath 1-06 Cavan 1-08

Meath 1-6 Cavan 1-8

Meath 0-4 Cavan 1-4

Late point hero Michael Lyng has failed to force his way into Cavan stand-in boss Martin McElkennon's side for Saturday's Ulster SFC semi-final replay against Tyrone.

Interim Cavan boss Martin McElkennon has made a number of positional switches for Sunday's Ulster SFC semi-final showdown with Tyrone in Clones.

Antrim 2-6 Cavan 1-15

Cavan 0-11 Antrim 0-11

WATERFORD hurling manager Justin McCarthy has made three changes from the team that failed to Galway last Sunday for tomorrow’s NHL tie with Clare in Dungarvan.

Dundalk Institute of Technology will host next year's Sigerson and Trench Cups.

Derry 0-25 Cavan 2-9 aet

Cavan's star forward Peter Reilly has suffered yet more injury agony and will see a knee specialist this week.

Armagh 0-13 Cavan 0-11

Cavan 3-13 Down 2-12

Cavan 3-13 Down 2-12

Cavan and Down have opted to keep faith in their line-ups ahead of Sunday's Ulster SFC replay clash at Breffni Park.

CAVAN manager Eamon Coleman has given a vote of confidence to the team which drew with Down in the opening round of the Ulster championship for Sunday’s replay in Kingspan Breffni Park.

STEPHEN MacGABHANN will make his Championship debut with Meath in Sunday’s Leinster clash with Wicklow in Croke Park.

ANDY MOLONEY is the major Waterford casualty from last Sunday’s National League final defeat by Galway.

Cavan boss Eamonn Coleman has a spate of injuries to contend with ahead of their Ulster SFC opener against Down on Sunday week.