Tommy Walsh will make his first start for Kerry since the 2009 All-Ireland SFC final when he lines out at midfield against Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday (2pm).

Tommy Walsh is likely to make his return to competitive football for All-Ireland champions Kerry off the substitutes’ bench, after he was kept in reserve for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 opener against Mayo at Fitzgerald Stadium (2pm).

Midway through the first half of Sunday’s All-Ireland final, I felt a tight, heaving sensation in the pit of my stomach.

Eoin Bradley and Gerard O’Kane were both sent off as Glenullin’s championship challenge was ended by Dungiven.

Limerick GAA chiefs revealed they took the county senior hurling management to task following a below-par performance in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes a win over Mayo tomorrow would throw his side right back into contention for the Allianz Football League Division 1 title.

The first half dismissal of Eoin Bradley aided a comfortable Ballinderry win over Glenullin in the big game of the Derry SFC last night.

If there was an 11th commandment which forbid us from coveting our neighbouring county, then I would be a serial sinner every time I visited Healy Park.

All League and Championship matches in Derry have been called off this weekend as a mark of respect following the death of referee Martin Mulholland.

DERRY’S footballers and Antrim’s hurlers have been given a reprieve from club fixtures ahead of their forthcoming provincial openers.

PROMOTER Barry Hearn described the referee’s decision to stop Saturday night’s world title fight between Amir Khan and Dungiven southpaw, Paul McCloskey, as the “most staggering decision” he had ever seen in any ring in the world.

Amir Khan will defend his WBA light-welterweight title against European champion Paul McCloskey on April 16.

DIANA VICKERS is not your typical X Factor graduate.

OLYMPIC bronze medallist, Paddy Barnes, sparked off a gold rush when he claimed the light flyweight title at the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi on a day when Northern Ireland won a record three gold and two silver medals.

PAUL McCLOSKEY challenged British golden boy, Amir Khan, for a shot at his WBA world title after dismissing former British champion, Barry Morrison, inside seven rounds in his second European light middleweight title defence at The Aura in Letterkenny on Saturday night.

STRANGE as it may sound but some footballers are criticised for ‘only being able to score’.

Loup 1-8 Dungiven 0-10

PAUL McCLOSKEY will share the limelight with fellow Derryman, John Duddy, at the Hunky Dorys Fight Night in the National Stadium on October 20 and is confident that there will be a double celebration.

Derry's chances of upsetting All-Ireland champions Tyrone in Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final (Omagh, throw-in 2.15pm) have been hit with key defender Sean Marty Lockhart ruled out injured.

The physical powers of young Liam Hinphey will be stretched to the hilt this weekend as he has been named in both the Derry hurling and football teams for their respective league matches.

New Derry senior football manager Paddy Crozier has confirmed his panel for the opening months of the 2006 season.

Derry boss Mickey Moran has named two newcomers on the team to face Queens University in their opening Dr McKenna Cup clash on Sunday.

WATERFORD County Board yesterday welcomed the Munster Council’s decision to defer the club championship semi-final between Patrickswell and their county champions, who will be decided in a replay on Saturday.