They have lost arguably a first choice championship midfield in recent weeks but John Doyle insists it is not a problem area for Kildare.

Kerry manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice has made six changes in personnel for tomorrow's Allianz League Division 1 encounter with Kildare in Newbridge (throw-in 2pm).

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has shaken up his team for tomorrow’s round three Division One clash away to Kildare, making six changes from the side that started last month’s home defeat to Dublin.

Winning the Division 2 league title may have been perceived outside of the camp as being important to Kildare’s continuing development but it was never viewed as such by the players or management.

Dermot Earley says he is not taking a starting place for granted when he eventually makes his on-field return for the Kildare footballers later this year.

Double cruciate injury victim Dermot Earley is confident Diarmuid Duggan’s costs will be met after the former Cork footballer went public with his plight.

KIERAN McGEENEY doesn’t see any reason why Kildare would support a proposal to bring forward the Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup final.

KILDARE defender Peter Kelly is relishing his first game for the Lilywhites in 18 months as he returns from a cruciate injury tomorrow.

SIX weeks ago, we chose the best performers up to and including all but one of the All-Ireland quarter-finals — Dublin v Tyrone.

THERE were approximately 10 minutes left in last Saturday’s round four qualifier between Kildare and Derry when someone in the press box turned to his colleagues and invited nominations for man of the match.

JOHN DOYLE has played down suggestions he is being targeted by opposing teams desperate to stymie the influence of Kildare’s star player.

DONEGAL wasn’t a topic Kieran McGeeney was prepared to discuss yesterday but the Armagh man had plenty to say about the structure of the All-Ireland championship.

THIS game could have been a blowout.

With no fresh injury worries, Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney has selected an unchanged team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC fourth round qualifier against Derry.

NOW that Meath have exited the Championship, County Board chiefs need to come out quickly and back Seamus McEnaney and his management team.

TODAY

A knee injury has forced midfielder Hugh Lynch to withdraw from the Kildare team to play Meath in tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier.

Emmet Bolton has replaced Ollie Lyons in Kildare's starting line-up for the All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier against Meath on Saturday.

ANOTHER second-half blitz, another qualifier victory for Kildare. The one team that learns the most from losing seemed to brush away all their cares about Dublin and last-gasp frees with a scintillating performance in Portlaoise.

Kildare 3-16 Laois 0-10

THERE is a good reason most of the post-game debate has centred on Meath referee Cormac Reilly and his decision to award a late and decisive free to Bernard Brogan and Dublin in a Leinster semi-final that failed live up to its billing.

Kildare are set to field an unchanged starting line-up for Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

Kildare 0-12 Wicklow 0-5

Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney will be forced to tweak his starting line-up for tomorrow's Leinster SFC first round encounter with Wicklow.

Speculation linking John Doyle with a possible move to midfield has proved wide of the mark following the announcement of the Kildare team to play Wicklow on Sunday.

SLIGO almost produced a great escape but in the end, it was results on other days that manager Kevin Walsh was ruing as his side were relegated in Newbridge yesterday.

Kildare 1-13 Laois 1-11

CONLETH GILLIGAN showed Derry fans what they’ve been missing by turning in a brilliant performance as the Oak Leafers maintained their unbeaten run in Kildare.

Kildare 0-11 Derry 0-13

Antrim 0-11 Kildare 1-17

KIERAN McGEENEY praised a referee yesterday but the Kildare boss had his tongue planted firmly in his cheek when offering kudos to Pat Fox for making this game exciting by giving DCU a host of scoreable frees.

Reigning champions DCU crashed out of the O'Byrne Cup this afternoon, as Kieran McGeeney's Kildare side marched into the semi-finals of the early season competition.

Down forward Benny Coulter had no hesitation in admitting he committed an infringement for his 13th-minute goal which provided to be a vital score as the Mourne County side booked their place in next month's All-Ireland SFC final.

WHEN Kieran McGeeney was playing with the great Armagh team of the last decade, people often talked about football being a game of inches.

JAMES McCARTAN wore the look of a relieved man after the breathless finish to yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

A COLLEAGUE who sat in on the 1991 All-Star selection meeting was amused by the Northern lobby’s capacity to find ever more important bodily parts, organs, and constituents to equate with members of the Down team, which had just won the All-Ireland.

Down 1-16 Kildare 1-14

RARELY has a week been so dominated by talk of injuries. All eyes were on Nowlan Park last Wednesday for Henry Shefflin’s resurrection, and breath will be bated yet again in Croke Park tomorrow in the minutes before 3.30pm.

DERMOT EARLEY will be given until right before throw-in to prove his fitness for Kildare’s All-Ireland semi-final with Down on Sunday.

Corner forward Eamonn Callaghan is the pride of Kildare at the moment, as the Lilywhites gear up for their first All-Ireland semi-final since 2000.

THE initial prognosis on Dermot Earley’s availability for the All-Ireland semi-final may be cautiously optimistic but Eamonn Callaghan believes Kildare have the strength in depth to cope should their talisman be forced to sit out their date with Down.

IT’S the All-Ireland championship, but not as we know it.

Kildare 2-17 Meath 1-12