DEFENDING All-Ireland junior football champions Sligo retained their provincial title in dramatic fashion in Charlestown.

PAT FLANAGAN was last night appointed as the new manager of the Westmeath senior football team.

SEAN CAVANAGH will return to the Tyrone starting line-up for the first time since last August’s All-Ireland quarter-final against Kildare for tomorrow night’s crunch NFL Division 1 showdown against Kerry in Healy Park, Omagh.

Tourlestrane (Sligo) 1-6 Castlerea St Kevin's (Roscommon) 1-12

COLM O’NEILL capped a month to remember when he was named the 2009 Cadbury Hero of the Future at Croke Park last night.

The Cadbury GAA Football U21 Championship final on May 4 will see Cork and Down battle it out to lift the Clarke Cup and be crowned All-Ireland U21 football champions.

Sligo 1-12 Antrim 1-10

Mayo 3-14 Sligo 1-8

TYRONE manager Mickey Harte introduces one newcomer for tomorrow’s floodlit NFL opener against Dublin at Croke Park.

TEAK-TOUGH Bishopstown back Noel O’Donovan and stylish Ballincollig winger Patrick Kelly have been drafted into the Cork team to play Meath in the opening round of the Allianz National Football League at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday.

The Sligo team chosen for Sunday's Connacht SFC opener against London (Ruislip, throw-in 2.30pm) shows only two changes to the side that started last summer's historic Connacht final win.

Tommy Jordan is just days away from his championship debut as an inter-county manager as he takes his Sligo side to Ruislip this weekend to begin their Connacht SFC title defence against London.