Glenswilly and Ballinderry Shamrocks booked their places in the AIB Ulster Senior Club Football Final following today's Senior club football action.

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

It was a busy day of action in the provincial Football Championships in both Munster and Ulster, while new SFC champions were crowned in Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford.

If he ends his career without winning an Ulster title, Paddy Bradley says it will ‘haunt’ him forever.

A GOAL inside the opening minute was the crucial score as Ballinderry held off Dromore challenge to set up a semi-final clash with Crossmaglen.

TWO first-half goals from Raymond Wilkinson, the first of them after just 43 seconds, guided Ballinderry to their 12th Derry SFC title yesterday.

Kildare 0-19 Derry 0-13

Derry manager John Brennan reckons that Joe Diver (knee) and Niall Holly (ankle) could be fit to play in Sunday week's Ulster SFC quarter-final against Fermanagh.

Westmeath manager Pat Flanagan and his Derry counterpart Damien Cassidy have announced their teams for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier in Mullingar (throw-in 5pm).

Influential midfielder Fergal Doherty will be unavailable for Derry's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier against Westmeath on Saturday evening.

Derry 1-18 Carlow 2-9, Dr Cullen Park

SEVEN of Ulster’s nine counties will be hoping that the new decade of championship football which kicks off this weekend will usher in a new, more democratic era in the province.

Monaghan will field the same team that defeated Armagh when they go into battle against Derry in tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier in Clones (throw-in 3pm).

FAIR play to Damian Cassidy.

MICKEY HARTE compared this Ulster semi-final to a chess match, but the longest game in that sedentary sport’s history was a sleep-inducing 20-hour marathon that would knock spots off this tie in terms of excitement.

Tyrone 0-15 Derry 0-7

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

Monaghan GAA chiefs will today decide whether to appeal the eight-week ban handed down to attacker Tommy Freeman arising out of last week’s controversial Ulster SFC clash against Derry.

MONAGHAN GAA chiefs will today decide whether to appeal the eight-week ban handed down to attacker Tommy Freeman arising out of last week’s controversial Ulster SFC clash against Derry.

GAA disciplinary chiefs look set to take a hard line stance in the wake of Sunday’s ill-tempered Ulster SFC quarter-final between Derry and Monaghan.

NO place for Tadhg Kennelly, and a experimental midfield partnership of Anthony Maher and Mike Quirke, might suggest Kerry are half-hearted about tomorrow’s Allianz Football League final.

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

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”.

Ten years on from their last Ulster SFC title win, Derry are keen to rid themselves of the tag of 'Ulster's whipping boys' following a strong league campaign which ultimately delivered an unexpected Division 1 crown.

PAT O’SHEA wasn’t just being diplomatic. He said straight out — when quizzed on the field minutes after the final whistle — that he couldn’t say if Kieran Donaghy had been ‘foot-blocked’ when he attempted to kick a goal in injury time in yesterday’s Allianz NFL final in Parnell Park.

Derry manager Paddy Crozier has rotated his side for tomorrow night's NFL Division 1 encounter with Laois in Portlaoise, throw-in at 7pm.

DOWN 1-12 DERRY 1-6, Casement Park

Ulster SFC champions Tyrone were dealt a tough hand in last night's draw for the 2008 Gaelic Life-sponsored Dr McKenna Cup tournament.

Derry manager Paddy Crozier has named an unchanged team for tomorrow's eagerly awaited All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Dublin at Croke Park, throw-in 3pm.

Magherafelt net minder Barry Gillis has been drafted into the Derry team for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier against Mayo (Celtic Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

Liam Bradley has left his post as selector to the Derry senior football team, due to other commitments.

Kevin McGuckin has been chosen to captain the Derry senior footballers in 2007.

Long-serving Ulster football manager Brian McEniff is hoping luck will be on his side tomorrow when county championship finals take place in Derry, Down and Tyrone.

Derry 1-8 Tyrone 0-5

Some quick recoveries from injury have afforded Derry manager Paddy Crozier the chance to name an unchanged side for the visit of Kildare to Celtic Park on Sunday (throw-in 2.30pm).

New Derry senior football manager Paddy Crozier has confirmed his panel for the opening months of the 2006 season.

Paddy Bradley's spectacular one-man show ended the Ulster Championship dream of NFL Division Two champions Monaghan.

Derry 2-9 Westmeath 0-13

Derry 3-10