Liam Kearns has ruled himself out of the running to become the next Clare football manager.

Jason Ryan last night resigned as Wexford football manager after five seasons in charge.

John Owens has decided to call time on his three-year stint as manager of the Waterford senior footballers.

Waterford County Board have confirmed football manager John Owens has stepped down.

Waterford chairman Tom Cunningham admits it’s likely the board will incur a loss from their two-day Rhythmfest fundraiser in Fraher Field this past weekend.

Waterford manager John Owens wouldn’t be drawn on his future at the helm of the Déise footballers.

Three things were lost in Aughrim on Saturday when Waterford travelled to take on Wicklow in the first round of the football qualifiers.

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.

They have knocked at the provincial title door for years and made a successful attempt at the start of another tilt at Munster in the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

The Waterford footballers will start the 2012 Championship without the services of their talismanic captain Gary Hurney.

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.

WATERFORD manager John Owens vowed to get over the loss of the O’Gorman brothers and set a Munster final as a target for his players following yesterday’s loss to IT Tralee at Carriganore.

WATERFORD football manager John Owens has described the potential loss of Maurice and Thomas O’Gorman from the county football panel in favour of the Déise hurling squad as “a big disappointment”.

WATERFORD football boss John Owens believes there is still untapped potential in the county and is eager to remain in charge for 2012, the final season of his three-year term.

WATERFORD boss John Owens believes the decisions made by referee Cormac Reilly’s umpires had a huge bearing on Saturday night’s All-Ireland qualifier.

Conor Phelan has been brought into the Waterford team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier clash with Limerick.

EMMETT BOLTON returns to the Kildare side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland qualifier against neighbours Meath in Páirc Tailteann in Navan.

WATERFORD boss John Owens has revealed that midfielder Tommy Prendergast will be sidelined for the rest of the year as he recovers from a freak shoulder injury that has left him hospitalised for the last few weeks.

THE Sky Sports cameras were at Ruislip on Saturday but they didn’t get the result they were hoping for. In what they described ‘Gaelic football’s version of the FA Cup’, this was one giantkilling act too many for London.

Cillian O'Keeffe and Paul Whyte have been named in the Waterford attack for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier against London.

UP to now, games between London and Waterford were played out well below the nation’s radar. Ruislip or Fraher Field, it didn’t matter. Here were two bottom-feeders fighting for scraps at the bottom of a tank packed with far bigger fish.

MICHEAL MEEHAN returns to the Galway starting lineup for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier against Meath in one of five changes made by manager Tomás Ó Flatharta following the Connacht semi-final defeat to Mayo.

AFTER the disappointment of losing to a contentious injury-time free in yesterday’s Leinster SFC semi-final, Kildare and Kieran McGeeney now prepare for an All-Ireland qualifier against Laois on Saturday, July 9.

Waterford County secretary Tim O'Keefe has called for the number of counties who compete in the Sam Maguire to be cut by half.

CORK manager Conor Counihan believes his side’s recent match practice was the key factor in their emphatic victory in yesterday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Waterford in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

WATERFORD boss John Owens is hopeful for a home draw in the All-Ireland qualifiers as he seeks to pick his players up from the disappointment of yesterday’s heavy defeat in the Munster SFC against Cork in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

WATERFORD boss John Owens heaped praise on his understrength team after stunning Tipperary in this McGrath Cup quarter-final at Walsh Park yesterday.

The season is not long over and already there has been plenty of movement on the management merry-go-round ahead of 2011’s campaign, writes Fintan O’Toole.

WATERFORD GAA chiefs are hopeful of breaking even by year’s end despite the downturn in the economy.

VINCE LOMBARDI once reacted to a Green Bay Packer defeat by insisting his side hadn’t lost the game, it was just that they had simply ran out of time.

TIPPERARY manager John Evans refused to be drawn on whether or not he will take charge of the Tipperary footballers for a fourth successive year after their championship exit on Saturday.

OFFALY’S quietly efficient progress through the All-Ireland qualifiers continued at home in Tullamore on Saturday yet they laboured before advancing past Waterford.

TIPPERARY boss John Evans admits his side drew one of the shorter straws in Pat Gilroy’s Dublin team in yesterday’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier draw.

THE draws for the second round of the All-Ireland football qualifiers will be televised by TV3, not in the usual Sunday evening slot, but on Monday morning.

WATERFORD manager John Owens admitted Limerick were worthy winners in yesterday’s Munster SFC semi-final but was unhappy with referee Syl Dolan’s decision to dismiss Tommy Prendergast after just 13 minutes.

FOOTBALLER of the year Paul Galvin has missed out on a place in the Kerry starting 15 for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final against Cork in Fitzgerald Stadium due to an ankle injury.

THE handpass rule may not have dominated the headlines in the Fraher Field yesterday but refereeing decisions still dominated post-match discussion.

MEATH manager Eamon O’Brien has called on the GAA to ‘clarify’ the revised handpass rules in Gaelic football.

Waterford 1-10 Clare 0-9, Dungarvan

THERE are many signals that the onset of championship action is growing closer.

TWO of Munster football’s lesser lights convened in Croke Park on Saturday afternoon with a more seasoned and experienced Limerick outfit carrying off the honours in an excellent Allianz NFL Division 4 decider.

Waterford manager John Owens is preparing his players for a huge effort in tomorrow evening's Allianz NFL Division 4 final against Limerick (throw-in 5pm).

JIM McGRATH knows all about the dog days of Waterford football.