Laois 0-21 Wicklow 1-11

Tipperary 0-22 Wicklow 4-12

Clare 2-13 Wicklow 1-8

Ulster 2-26 Leinster 3-21 (aet)

Ulster and Connacht overcame Leinster and Munster respectively this afternoon to book their places in the M Donnelly Interprovincial Football Final next Sunday.

A small pinch was required, reveals Leighton Glynn, just to make sure it was all real.

Rathnew 3-09 Baltinglass 1-14

Glenealy 0-17 Bray Emmet’s 0-14

Oulart the Ballagh, Castletown-Geoghegan, Mount Leinster Rangers and Glenealy are celebrating Senior Hurling Championship wins in Wexford, Westmeath, Carlow and Wicklow respectively following finals this afternoon.

Former Dublin player Johnny Magee will be part of the Wicklow senior football management team for the 2014 season, coming on board as a selector.

Glenealy, bidding for a fourth Wicklow SHC title in-a-row, were taken to extra-time by Carnew before carving out a narrow 2-16 to 1-15 victory in their semi-final replay at Aughrim yesterday.

Defending senior hurling champions Glenealy drew with arch-rivals Carnew in Saturday’s dogged semi-final encounter at Aughrim (1-11 apiece).

Champions St Patrick’s crashed out of Wicklow’s senior football championship in sensational fashion in their first-round qualifier match at Aughrim on Saturday.

Wicklow football star Leighton Glynn will miss the county’s entire championship campaign.

Wicklow 1-17 Waterford 0-15, (after extra-time)

Wicklow star Ciarán Hyland is a doubt for the Garden County’s All-Ireland qualifier against Waterford on June 30 after sustaining an injury while supporting the Republic of Ireland in the European Championships.

They grasped silverware again in April yet the applause did not come tumbling down from the stands to greet Cork’s third successive league title.

Wicklow captain Leighton Glynn is unlikely to play again for the county this season after breaking his ankle against Meath last Sunday.

More often than not, the tone for refereeing in the Championship is set in the first couple of weekends.

Ambush?

Wicklow boss Harry Murphy fears captain Leighton Glynn sustained a broken ankle in yesterday’s defeat to Meath.

Meath 0-16 Wicklow 0-11

Wicklow will field a team containing just one Championship debutant when they meet Meath at Dr Cullen Park on Sunday (throw-in 3.30pm).

Some of the summer’s favourites may already be scampering for survival by the first week of June

They made huge strides under Mick O’Dwyer and now the Wicklow footballers are demonstrating their development is continuing after the departure of the Waterville maestro.

Wicklow 2-16 Fermanagh 1-11

Peter Canavan’s pre-match team-talk to his Fermanagh players ahead of this evening’s Allianz Football League Division 4 final against Wicklow will boil down to one word — honesty.

Wicklow will meet Fermanagh in the Allianz Football League Division 4 final after ending the group phase with a win over Clare today.

Fermanagh will face either Clare or Wicklow in the Football League Division 4 final, after claiming their seventh win in eight games this afternoon.

Wicklow had a man of the match performance from Tony Hannon as he scored some spectacular points and a peach of a goal after 25 minutes and went in at the break leading 1-5 to 0-6.

Fermanagh maintained their 100% record in Football League Division 4 today, while Clare, Wicklow and Carlow also recorded victories.

Fermanagh came through this scrappy encounter that had more in common with a relegation battle than a push for promotion yesterday in Brewster Park.

Fermanagh, Clare, Leitrim and Limerick all chalked up wins in Division 4 of the Football League this weekend.

Waterford kept their hopes of making a quick-return to Division 3 alive with this four-point win at Aughrim.

Fermanagh continued their unbeaten run in Division 4 of the Football League with a facile 46-point victory over Kilkenny, while there were also away wins for Waterford and Carlow this afternoon and Clare accounted for Limerick in Ennis.

The 2012 M Donnelly-sponsored Interprovincial Football and Hurling Championship was launched today by GAA President Christy Cooney at Croke Park.

RED-HOT favourites Portlaoise had to wait until the second-half beforebeing able to impose their authority on a gallant Rathnew side in this quarter-final clash at O’Moore Park yesterday.

RATHNEW were sensationally knocked off their senior football throne in Wicklow yesterday as amalgamated side St. Mary’s, coached by Karl O’Dwyer, secured a shock victory in the county final at Aughrim.

IRELAND series victories are usually greeted with more fanfare but sadly their excellence has to share the billing with just how wretched their opponents were.

Ireland International Rules manager Anthony Tohill praised the way his players went about their business in their Series-clinching win over Australia on the Gold Coast.

International Rules Series: Ireland 50 Australia 29

LEIGHTON GLYNN has no fear of an aggressive retort from the Australians tomorrow night as he claims the Ireland team are bigger than the host country.

ANTHONY TOHILL has enforced a Twitter ban on his International Rules squad in Australia.

Ireland manager Anthony Tohill will not allow himself or his players to get carried away by their record-breaking first Test win over Australia in Melbourne.