SLIGO have called up U-21 star Adrian Marren for Sunday’s Bank of Ireland Connacht SFC clash with Leitrim at Carrick-on-Shannon.

TIPPERARY County Board have called for the abandonment of the rule agreed at Congress which restricts the playing activity of 16-year-old players.

Another year and another swell of expectation that Croke Park will be opened to other sports. Brendan O’Brien canvasses officials nationwide to gauge the mood, the hopes and the grassroots opinion.

OPENING up Croke Park to rugby and soccer would allow the GAA to show itself "in the most favourable way possible" by supporting ecumenism in sport, Tipperary County Board chairman Donal Shanahan said last night.

Kilkenny 3-21 Tipperary 1-6

Tipperary County Board chairman Donal Shanahan has recommended three selectors who resigned from the county's senior football team which prompted Tipperary to pull out of the All-Ireland qualifiers be "debarred" from holding similar positions with any Tipperary team.

COLIN CORKERY, Brendan Ger O’Sullivan and Nicholas Murphy have been given starting places on the Cork team to meet Clare in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland, All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Cusack Park, Ennis.

TIPPERARY’S participation in Saturday’s Bank of Ireland first-round qualifier game against Fermanagh in Thurles was cast into doubt last night.

COMPETING counties in this year’s All-Ireland senior finals can look forward to receiving an extra 1,500 tickets each, but the general allocation to counties will be reduced by approximately 5%, the GAA’s Central Council has agreed.

County Tipperary GAA PRO Liz Howard has withdrawn her resignation following a meeting of the board last night.

Both Tipperary and Kilkenny have hit out at the venue choice of Monday's hurling league finals at Croke Park.

THE choice of Croke Park for the Allianz NHL final between Tipperary and Kilkenny next Monday has been criticised in both camps with DJ Carey predicting the game would not attract a big crowd.