Malachy O'Rourke is poised to succeed Eamonn McEneaney as manager of the Monaghan senior footballers.

Seamus McEnaney has resigned as Meath senior football manager, just days after he was nominated for the vacant Monaghan position.

Seamus McEnaney last night confirmed he’s stepping down as Meath senior football team manager — and refused to rule out a return to his native Monaghan.

Seamus McEnaney is wanted by a number of Monaghan players to return as manager.

Laois manager Justin McNulty hailed what he felt was his team’s best performance over the last two years, as they dumped Monaghan out of the All-Ireland championship with a six point win in O’Moore Park yesterday.

Monaghan manager Eamonn McEneaney stood down from the job last night.

Eamonn McEneaney has announced his intention to resign as Monaghan senior football manager following their All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Laois.

Eamonn McEneaney: “It was a big opportunity for us to get to the Ulster final but you have to move on from it. ”

Did Monaghan blow it, or were Down just too good in the second half? Eamonn McEneaney reckoned he knew the answer.

Monaghan 1-12 Antrim 1-9

Eamonn McEneaney has revealed he is tempted to throw Tommy Freeman into battle at Clones tomorrow.

Three of Monaghan's most influential players will be missing from their starting line-up when they play Antrim in Clones on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

A miserable afternoon for Monaghan at Healy Park ended with the news that Westmeath had beaten Derry to condemn the Farney men to Division Three next season.

Monaghan 0-12 Galway 1-14

Eamonn McEneaney says Monaghan feel they have been “stitched up” and he personally has “very little faith” in the GAA disciplinary process.

Monaghan 2-24 Louth 1-15

The referees’ expenses controversy has taken a dramatic twist with Limerick match officials asked to supply their Personal Public Service (PPS) numbers to the county board.

GAA president Christy Cooney revealed Croke Park bosses will meet with the Revenue Commissioners this week to resolve issues relating to referee expenses.

Eamonn McEneaney accused GAA chiefs of misapplying the rules after Monaghan were ordered to forfeit home advantage for the Allianz FL Division 2 clash with Louth on Sunday week, March 11.

World Rally star Craig Breen has beaten the competition to be crowned Person of the Year in his native county of Waterford.

Allianz Football League Division 2: Monaghan 0-17 Kildare 0-12

Conor Counihan’s suggestion to send off players who get involved in melees has received mixed reaction among GAA officialdom and his fellow inter-county bosses.

Seamus McEnaney got one over his former charges as Meath had a winning start to the Allianz Football League Division 2 at the expense of his native Monaghan at Navan on Saturday night.

MONAGHAN boss Eamonn McEneaney is looking forward to the All-Ireland Qualifiers with a confidence that his young side can develop and mature along the way, and possibly enjoy an extended run this summer.

TOMMY FREEMAN will miss most of Monaghan’s championship campaign.

AS the Allianz Football League finishes up this weekend, it has been confirmed referees are brandishing more cards in this year’s competition than in 2010.

ULTIMATELY they went down anyway — but not without a fight.

MONAGHAN 1-18 MAYO 2-13

IN recent times, victories for the Cork footballers have tended to revolve around the scoring exploits of their stars in the full-forward line.

Cork 1-15 Monaghan 1-12

Monaghan 0-19 Galway 0-14

MONAGHAN manager Eamonn McEneaney has proposed the winter training ban be reduced to one month — but to include colleges — and further suggested the pre-season competitions be played off in November.

The winner of the preliminary round encounter between Donegal and Antrim will face Cavan in the quarter-finals of the 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship, it has been announced.

LOUTH’S emergence into the bright lights of a first Leinster final for the first time in half a century is a remarkable story all in itself, but it is one accompanied by a collection of equally eye-catching individual tales.

SHANE LENNON is confident Louth can cope with the pressures of their first appearance in a Leinster SFC final in half a century next month.

THE chairman of the Louth County Board has slammed clubs for their unwillingness to provide qualified candidates for the managerial vacancy within the county, despite their readiness to criticise former boss Eamonn McEneaney.

Louth are on the lookout for a new senior football manager after Eamonn McEneaney's decision not to take up a fifth term with the Wee county side.

JOHN EVANS declared July 4 as Independence Day for Tipperary football after Saturday’s landmark qualifier win against Louth.

SEAN DEMPSEY felt this was going to be Laois’ day when Padraic Clancy’s hopeful punt bounced past goalkeeper Stuart Reynolds and into the Louth net after five minutes.

SIXTEEN years have elapsed since these two last bumped into one another in the Leinster Championship but the meeting for which this fixture will always be remembered was played two years earlier in Croke Park.

LOUTH attacker Aaron Hoey has been ruled out of his county’s Leinster SFC opener against Carlow at Parnell Park next Sunday after tearing a hamstring in training over the weekend.

LOUTH 1-17 DCU 1-10

THE GAA’s Director of Games has stressed it will be a number of years before the benefits of the two-months ban on collective inter-county training can be appreciated.