The author of a new book on the history behind GAA’s major cups and trophies has called on the Munster Council to name the province’s senior football and hurling competitions after deceased Gaels.

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

Tommy Naughton is to continue as manager of the Dublin senior hurlers into next season, after being ratified for another year by the Dublin County Board.

Tommy Naughton was ratified as the new Dublin senior hurling manager last night, having been in caretaker control of the capital side during the summer.

There are five candidates in the race to replace Humphrey Kelleher as Dublin senior hurling manager for next season.

HUMPHREY KELLEHER, the former Cork footballer whose death has occurred, was remembered yesterday as a powerful defender who had a major input into the winning of the All-Ireland in 1973.

1973 All-Ireland medal winner Humphrey Kelleher died suddenly at his home in Cork last night.

DUBLIN chairman John Bailey has accused GAA authorities of failing hurling in the capital by deciding not to play the county’s All-Ireland minor hurling semi-final before the county seniors’ last-eight fixture in Croke Park on August 20.

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

Newly-appointed Dublin hurling manager Tommy Naughton has made four changes to the side that lost by four clear goals to Laois under Humphrey Kelleher.

The Dublin hurling squad's hopes of ending their 11-game league and championship losing streak has been boosted by a number of returning faces.

LAST NIGHT’S Cork County Board meeting heard a call for panels of inter county teams to be again reduced to 24 players.

The crisis in Dublin hurling deepened at the weekend with the players insisting they will not fulfil any of their fixtures under the present county chairman, John Bailey, and the interim management team appointed in the wake of the dismissal of Humphrey Kelleher.

THE Dublin hurling crisis deepened yesterday with the players insisting they won’t fulfil any fixtures under county chairman John Bailey and an interim management team.

Dublin's U21 hurling manager, Tommy Naughton, will take temporary charge of the senior squad until Humphrey Kelleher's replacement is appointed.

TWENTY-TWO year-old Barry Nugent from the Eire Og club in Ennis will make his senior championship debut for Clare in Sunday’s Guinness Munster hurling semi-final against Tipperary at the Limerick Gaelic Grounds.

Dublin under-21 manager Tommy Naughton is set to take charge of the county's senior hurlers in a caretaker capacity until the Dublin County management committee select a long-term replacement for the departed Humphrey Kelleher.

Former Limerick manager Padjoe Whelahan has been tipped to replace Humphrey Kelleher as Dublin hurling boss.

Humphrey Kelleher has become the first managerial casualty of the championship season as the Dublin County Board last night announced that he was no longer the county's hurling boss.

Laois 4-14 Dublin 0-14

Laois made amends for last year’s Leinster SHC quarter-final replay loss to Dublin by firing four goals past the outclassed Metropolitans today at Nowlan Park.

Laois manager Paudie Butler has named four debutants in his side for Sunday's Leinster SHC quarter-final against Dublin at Nowlan Park.

Antrim 3-09 Dublin 1-11

There are three clashes down for decision in today's final round of the National Hurling League relegation section.

Dublin 3-8 Limerick 3-14

Dublin slumped to their 11th straight defeat in 12 months of competititve hurling as Limerick picked off a 3-14 to 3-08 NHL Division One relegation section win at Parnell Park.

Limerick host Waterford in the tie of the round in the Division 1 National Hurling League relegation section today.

Dublin boss Humphrey Kelleher has made four changes for today's Division 1A clash against Clare in the second round of the National Hurling League.

Dublin boss Humphrey Kelleher has made four changes for the visit of Clare on Sunday in the second round of the National Hurling League.

Dublin boss Humphrey Kelleher takes his charges to Pearse Stadium where they face a daunting Division 1A National League opener against champions Galway.

AS the inter-county GAA season emerges from winter hibernation, Brendan Larkin and Therese O’Callaghan canvassed football and hurling managers on their close season training regime.

Dublin hurling manager Humphrey Kelleher will field an experimental side for the Walsh Cup clash with Leinster supremos Kilkenny on Sunday.

Conal Keaney has shocked Dublin hurling fans by announcing that he is to concentrate solely on football this year.

Conal Keaney has quit the Dublin senior hurling squad and has opted to declare exclusively for Paul Caffery's Footballers instead.

New Dublin football boss Paul Caffrey will hold talks with his hurling counterpart Humphrey Kelleher this weekend on the status of dual players in the county.

DUBLIN football manager Paul Caffrey will meet his hurling counterpart Humphrey Kelleher on Sunday to discuss the dual player issue.

A 25-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the manslaughter of his 31-year-old sister, a married mother of three, last week.

Kilkenny 4-22 Dublin 0-8

Dublin hurling has been dealt a bloody nose with the news three top players have quit the county panel ahead of their clash with Kilkenny.