Former county player Tommy Breheny has been appointed as the full-time Sligo football manager.

Knockbride attacker Larry Reilly will make his first start of this season's National Football League when Cavan line out against Sligo on Sunday (Markievicz Park, throw-in 2.30pm).

Former St Mary's manager Tommy Breheny has assumed caretaker control of the Sligo senior footballers.

AXED Sligo manager Dom Corrigan has lashed his county board and accused them of ‘shafting’ him with ‘ambush’ tactics.

WEXFORD veteran Adrian Fenlon looks set to retire from inter-county hurling. Manager Seamus Murphy confirmed yesterday that while the midfielder had not made contact, he believes that the Enniscorthy Rapparees man has called time on his Model career.

THE referee’s report on the O’Byrne Cup game between Dublin and Wexford has made a “vague reference” to an alleged striking incident by a Dublin official.

Sligo corner-back Patrick Naughton is to undergo surgery on a cruciate knee injury, meaning him will miss up to six months of the new season.

Sligo GAA Secretary Tommy Kilcoyne will wade in behind the Yeats county's "young talent" in his address to the Sligo GAA convention on Monday night.

FOLLOWING this championship re-charge for Cork in Portlaoise on Saturday, manager Billy Morgan talked about being in a “bonus” situation by qualifying for next Saturday’s quarter-final against Galway.

Sligo 0-6 Cork 1-8

Sligo and Cavan, with five qualifier wins between them, are setting sights on the last eight of the All-Ireland championship.

WHEN Cork football meant royalty, Colman Corrigan manned the portcullis. The big full-back dominated the square when Cork finally gained supremacy in Munster in 1987, so you'd expect him, as a Cork selector, to be despondent in the wake of Kerry's Munster final victory this summer.

TIPPERARY have deferred selection of their team to meet Galway in the quarter final of the Guinness All-Ireland SHC at Croke Park on Sunday until the weekend.

BOBBY, his young son, is crying for his bottle so Marty McElkennon wonders if you could ring back in 10 minutes.

CROKE PARK is set to host an All-Ireland SFC qualifier double header next Saturday.

It's been so far, so good for Ulster sides in the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers. The trend continued with Monaghan becoming the first team through to the fourth round last night, and Cavan and Derry look set to join them later today.

Sligo's chances of avenging last year's Tommy Murphy Cup final loss to Clare have been hampered by a scan on midfielder Eamonn O'Hara's knee injury.

Sligo's footballers emerged 1-11 to 1-10 victors over Kildare yesterday at Markievicz Park, adding pace to their qualifier charge - but the win came at a cost.

The Sligo footballers will take to Markievicz Park tomorrow evening (Saturday, throw-in 7pm) without John Martyn and John McPartland.

Sligo 0-18 Longford 0-16

Armagh manager Joe McKernan has selected Oisin McConville for today's National Football League Division 1B clash against Down in Crossmaglen after he impressed in last week's thriller victory over Laois.

There are four matches down for decision in Division 1B of the National Football League today.

Sligo manager Dom Corrigan takes charge of his first competitive match with the county when the westerners face Clare in the FBD Connacht football league in Tubbercurry on Sunday.

DUBLIN football manager Paul Caffrey will meet his hurling counterpart Humphrey Kelleher on Sunday to discuss the dual player issue.

NEWLY-INSTALLED Sligo football manager Dom Corrigan is aiming for instant success. Corrigan, unveiled as successor to James Kearins on Monday night, assembled his inherited panel for their first training session in Tubbercurry last night.

DUBLIN GAA chiefs are confident of appointing a football manager within 10 days, despite first-choice Brian Mullins turning down the role following a dispute with the executive.

Peter McGinnity, Fermanagh's only Allstar, may soon have company, after the invigorating displays of wing forwards Mark Little and Eamonn Maguire this season.

IT has been raining in Fermanagh most of the week, but no spirits have been dampened around Lisnaskea. As they say in these parts, it’s been a wild good summer.

PAUL BREWSTER wishes he was five years younger. For so long, he was the soul of Fermanagh football, the man who kept believing when others threw up their head.

HERE’S an interesting statistic. Fermanagh have been to Croke Park twice since Cork footballers last played there.

Fermanagh are expected to confirm the appointment of Charlie Mulgrew as successor to Dom Corrigan in the coming days.

Fermanagh football stars Mickey Lilly and Neil Cox may yet answer their county's call despite initially hinting that they'd be prepared to stay away from the county scene this term.

Successful Loup club manager Malachy O'Rourke has turned down the opportunity to succeed Dom Corrigan as Fermanagh football boss.

Successful football club boss Malachy O'Rourke has emerged as the front runner to take over the Fermanagh football manager's position.

Former Fermanagh boss Dom Corrigan has made a speedy return to management and taken over Tyrone club side Carrickmore just weeks after quitting the Erne County.

Former Fermanagh football manager Dom Corrigan has vowed to return to the Erneside hotseat in the future - despite quitting in controversy at the weekend.

Fermanagh football boss Dom Corrigan has confirmed that he'll put forward his name for another term in charge of the Ernesiders.

Tyrone 1-21, Fermanagh 0-5

FERMANAGH manager Dom Corrigan won’t have taken many positives from yesterday’s spanking in Croke Park, but he at least had the consolation of being beaten by a county that he described as “probably the best team in the country.”

The most maligned football province will provide half of the weekend’s Championship quarter-finalists. How come, asks Mark Gallagher.

The Fermanagh management team have left a space at wing-forward in their team to face Tyrone in the All-Ireland quarter-finals at Croke Park on Sunday.

Fermanagh boss Dom Corrigan will give star forward Tom Brewster every chance to confirm his fitness ahead of Sunday's make or break clash with Tyrone at Croke Park.

Mayo 1-8 Fermanagh 0-12

IN some circles, Dom Corrigan has been acclaimed as giving the half-time team talk of the summer.