Ballinderry Shamrocks 1-13 Glenswilly 2-06

The last of this year’s Junior Certificate students waved arrivederci to the exams as the Italian papers ended their two-weeks of writing.

Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone) 0-11 Ballinderry (Derry) 0-10

Tyrone’s foundations for a serious push for promotion at the second attempt have been solidly laid.

Tyrone 1-14 Derry 2-8

HOLDERS Derry booked their place in the Dr McKenna Cup final at the Athletic Grounds, where six Conleth Gilligan points helped secure victory.

The James Conway saga delivered another twist yesterday with confirmation that the Derry football panellist has been handed a 48-week suspension by a hearings committee in the county.

THE James Conway saga delivered another twist yesterday with confirmation that the Derry football panellist has been handed a 48-week suspension by a hearings committee in the county.

JAMES CONWAY will learn later this week if he will be part of the Derry senior football panel for the All-Ireland qualifiers, after his controversial eight-week suspension was lifted at an appeals meeting.

JAMES KIELT has rejected suggestions the fallout from the broken jaw he suffered in a club game was a factor in Derry’s defeat to Tyrone in Sunday’s Ulster semi-final.

TOMORROW morning Seamus Downey will drive his two eldest sons to Belfast’s Casement Park for their first taste of the championship rivalry between Derry and Tyrone.

DERRY chairman Seamus McCloy has played down suggestions the Ballinderry club is threatening to pull its players from the county squad.

Derry midfielder James Conway has been suspended from the county senior football panel while an investigation is held into the incident in a club game last weekend which left inter-county attacker James Kielt with a broken jaw.

DERRY midfielder James Conway has been suspended from the county senior football panel while an investigation is held into the incident in a club game last weekend which left inter-county attacker James Kielt with a broken jaw.

A five-point haul from Oisin McConville was the difference as Crossmaglen Rangers secured their seventh Ulster Club SFC title at Brewster Park in Enniskillen today.

BALLINDERRY SHAMROCKS (Derry) 1-10 CROSSMAGLEN RANGERS (Armagh) 1-10, Brewster Park

Fermanagh 1-11 Derry 1-9

YOU gotta love Paddy Crozier. Derry win the league and yet he says in yesterday’s programme notes that “the 2008 season starts here”. They go on and beat Donegal and his summation is “must do better”.

Derry manager Paddy Crozier has been forced to make one change to his side for Sunday's NFL Division 1 decider against Kerry at Parnell Park.

PAT O’SHEA will decide tonight what roles the experienced trio of Colm Cooper, Paul Galvin and Declan O’Sullivan play in Sunday’s NFL Division One final against Derry at Parnell Park.

Derry boss Paddy Crozier knows that kingpins Kerry will pose a formidable challenge for his side as they hope to secure the county's sixth NFL Division 1 title in Sunday's decider at Parnell Park.

Derry midfielder James Conway has been ruled out of Sunday's National Football League final against Kerry.

Galway 3-9 Derry 0-13, Pearse Stadium

There will be a new name etched on the Gaelic Life Dr McKenna Cup this season after champions Tyrone went down by 0-12 to 0-11 to Donegal in their final group game today.

Derry have enhanced their giant-killing reputation with a battling win over Mayo at Celtic Park.

Derry 0-10 Armagh 0-9

Derry 1-9 Monaghan 0-14

Ace attacker Paddy Bradley will warm the bench for Derry's re-fixed Ulster SFC quarter-final tie against Antrim this Sunday (Casement Park, throw-in 3.30pm)

Paddy Bradley has not been included in the Derry side for Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final against Antrim (Casement Park, throw-in 4.15pm).

FIRST Omagh and now Crossmaglen. For eight years, Armagh and Tyrone have held Ulster football in their vice-like grips but the twin towers of the northern game both came a cropper on home soil against their provincial brethren this weekend.

A SMALL team of American soldiers was missing last night in the same mountains in eastern Afghanistan where a special forces helicopter was shot down earlier this week.

US forces desperately scoured rugged Afghan mountains today for a small team of soldiers missing after fierce fighting that included the shooting down of a special forces helicopter with 16 troops aboard earlier this week, US officials said.

American soldiers were today identifying the remains of 16 troops killed when their special forces helicopter was shot down and plunged into a mountain ravine in eastern Afghanistan.

A drug addict who threatened two doctors at Beaumont Hospital with a blood-filled syringe has been jailed for four years by Judge Des Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court

The appointment of an Iraqi general to head the brigade taking over from US forces besieging Fallujah was reduced to farce today.

The former Republican Guards general appointed to head an Iraqi army inside besieged Fallujah is to be demoted within days of his appointment.

Eleven US troops were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a mortar barrage in which six soldiers died and 30 were wounded.

US Marines have warned guerrillas in Iraq’s war-torn city of Fallujah that they have only days to hand over their heavy weapons or face a possible attack.

GUERRILLAS and residents in Fallujah have "days, not weeks" to turn in heavy weapons, the top US Marine commander in Iraq said yesterday, warning an American push to take the city could be costly for both sides.

AS the Bush administration was pushing last autumn for a war against Iraq because of alleged weapons of mass destruction, a defence department report said it did not have enough “reliable information” Iraq was amassing chemical weapons, a defence official said yesterday.

USED to be that when a club would win the All-Ireland title, the town and village would go on the beer for a year, and the next thing we would hear was the defending All-Ireland champions were knocked out by a team from a small parish of 300 houses and a 15-year old as a corner forward in the first round of the championship.