Longford 2-14 Limerick 0-9

Armagh 3-8 Longford 1-9

Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee believes teams will learn to keep down the number of black cards in games.

Westmeath and Louth will face each other for the second time in six weeks in the first round of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers on June 30.

Longford 1-12 Wexford 0-13

HIS new position will see him clocking over 1,000 kilometres a week from his Kildare base but Brian Lacey had no hesitation about accepting the offer to coach the Limerick footballers.

Longford 0-15 Tyrone 1-17

THE manager boycott against RTÉ is over after Brian Cody and Mickey Moran spoke to the national broadcasters at the weekend.

BRIAN CODY is the only one of six managers involved in RTÉ’s three live televised games this weekend set to refuse post-match interviews with the national broadcasters.

CRAIG DIAS faces a hectic February if he is to help the ambitions of his club, college and county in winning silverware.

FORMER Meath chairman Brendan Dempsey has claimed that some underage mentors in the county are using their positions to scout for talent to bring to ‘other codes’.

THE faintest strains of a familiar song could be heard escaping from one onlooker’s MP3 player as John O’Mahony spoke softly of his decision to step down as Mayo manager on Saturday night.

THE smile on Glen Ryan’s face said it all.

THERE’S more than a few Kerry footballers partial to piseogs, but few were brave enough to discuss them within earshot of team management on the Kingdom’s trip north to Longford last night.

Longford 2-12 AIT 1-07, Ballymahon

LIKE a cornered animal, Offaly have long been renowned as a team that is at its most dangerous when their backs were to the wall.

A GLEN RYAN type of Sunday at Croke Park tomorrow. An afternoon for leaders to instil belief in those around them, to rally colleagues in doubt to head trouble off at first sight.

CLARE have made just one change from the side that lost to Cork in last season’s Guinness All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship semi-final for Sunday’s Muster duel with their conquerors of nine months ago at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

DONEGAL chairman Charlie O’Donnell has received threats following the axing of two top county players from the senior football panel.

BRIAN LOHAN could make a comeback for Clare in Sunday's Allianz NHL semi-final clash with Limerick at Semple Stadium, Thurles.

KERRY open their Allianz NFL campaign against Mayo at Austin Stacks Park, Tralee tomorrow night with a new goalkeeper.

THE All-Ireland football qualifiers draw has thrown Ulster’s provincial rivals together again with Down facing Derry in the tie of the round.

Kildare 0-14 Westmeath 0-11

KILDARE manager Padraig Nolan accepts his side are raging favourites to beat Wicklow in the first round of the Bank of Ireland Leinster senior football championship at Croke Park tomorrow.

Kildare 0-13 Laois 0-08

A three-week respite for Offaly proved crucial in Newbridge this afternoon, as a stunning first half performance including two late goals from Pascal Kelleghan and Niall McNamee saw them 2-17 to 1-16 winners against a tired and vanquished Kildare.

Kildare 1-16 Offaly 2-17

Offaly 1-15 Kildare 1-8

ROYAL ALPHABET, lucky to survive a blunder at the second, subsequently toyed with his rivals on the way to taking the Ballynonty Novice Hurdle at Thurles yesterday.

PADDY CLARKE was in the air, flying to Australia as part of the Irish management for the 2001 International Rules Series, when Brigid’s lost heavily in the Dublin county football final to a Na Fianna side captained by Kieran McGeeney.

JOHN O’KEEFE knows exactly what’s required from his 23-man squad, if Ireland are to maintain their record of never having lost an away series to Australia in the International Rules competition.

Roscommon 1-18, Kildare 0-19 (after extra time)

KILDARE’S footballers won some encouragement from an old friend last night on the eve of their do-or-die All-Ireland football qualifier with Roscommon.

Laois 2-13 Kildare 1-13

Laois 2-13 Kildare 1-13

YOU WANT to understand the change in Kildare football. You want to know how they are coping in their brave new world, how much they miss — or don’t miss — Micko. You need to discover how an age of uncertainty transformed swiftly into an age of unexpected success.

THE absence of Dublin and Meath from the Bank of Ireland Leinster SFC decider on July 20 may not necessarily result in the provincial council taking a financial hit.

THEY weren’t expecting much in Kildare this summer.

INSPIRATIONAL former captain Glen Ryan has been left out of the Kildare team for Sunday’s Bank of Ireland Leinster SFC quarter-final against Longford at Croke Park.

Kerry 2-10, Kildare 1-5

Kerry 2-10 Kildare 1-5