Down 2-6 Armagh 0-11

Galway’s powerful showing in the first period of extra-time dumped the holders, Sligo, out of the Connacht Junior Championship in last night’s quarter-final at Kilcoyne Park, Tubbercurry.

For weeks, the focus before this All-Ireland junior final zeroed in on Derrytresk, but Galway’s Naomh Pádraig stole the limelight in Croke Park yesterday by claiming the honours in the most dramatic fashion.

GALWAY junior champions Naomh Pádraig, Clonbur eased their way into an All-Ireland club final with a facile victory in Carrick-on-Shannon yesterday.

TWO of the province’s most decorated and traditional strongholds of the schools game, Blackrock College and Terenure College, meet in today’s Powerade Leinster Schools Senior Cup final at the RDS (3.30pm).

Bray native Ed Joyce has been included in England's 15-man squad for the cricket World Cup.