Tommy Walsh will make his first start for Kerry since the 2009 All-Ireland SFC final when he lines out at midfield against Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday (2pm).

Tommy Walsh is likely to make his return to competitive football for All-Ireland champions Kerry off the substitutes’ bench, after he was kept in reserve for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 opener against Mayo at Fitzgerald Stadium (2pm).

Limerick GAA chiefs revealed they took the county senior hurling management to task following a below-par performance in Division 1B of the Allianz Hurling League.

The Cork senior hurling management have made a number of alterations to their squad for the forthcoming championship.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes a win over Mayo tomorrow would throw his side right back into contention for the Allianz Football League Division 1 title.

Glenullin edged out Slaughtneil in an extra-time thriller as the Derry senior football championship came to life last evening.

Crossmaglen Rgs (Armagh) 2-10 Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone) 0-10

MICK O’DWYER’S managerial career has days, weeks at most, to run before it draws to an end but the Waterville man will be leaving behind at least one kindred spirit to patrol the sidelines when he enters retirement.

Now preparing for the county's first Ulster SFC final appearance since 2000, it is clear that the Derry players have warmed to John Brennan's ways.

John Brennan has been announced as the new Derry senior football manager, succeeding Damian Cassidy who stepped down recently after two years in charge.

Malachy O'Rourke has brought his reign as Fermanagh senior football manager to an end, after deciding not to seek a fourth year in charge.

St. Gall's (Antrim) 0-16 Loup (Derry) 0-5

WHEN Paul Young says he finds it hard to believe that Loup are in the Ulster final, he’s not kidding.

Kilcoo (Down) 1-11 Loup (Derry) 1-12

The race to replace Crossmaglen as AIB Ulster Club Senior Football champions heated up this afternoon, with the four rescheduled quarter-finals taking place.

Loup 1-8 Dungiven 0-10

JOHN KIELY last night expressed surprise and disappointment at not being re-appointed as Waterford senior football manager.

WE’VE had four weeks to digest the remarkable story that is Barry Owens’ return to football but, like that movie you’ve watched time and again, his is a tale you can’t hear enough.

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

CROSSMAGLEN, three times All-Ireland club champions between 1997 and 2000, take on Leinster representatives Portlaoise at Parnell Park tomorrow (2.30pm) in a semi-final which may very well decide the destination of the trophy.

COLM COOPER is regarded as a doubtful starter for Kerry in next Sunday's all-ticket Allianz National Football League final against Galway in Croke Park (3.40pm).

Loup's captain fantastic Johnny McBride has received a call up to the Derry football panel after a lengthy absence.

RAYMOND Gallagher will make no decision on his inter-county situation until St Brigids’ club championship campaign has come to an end.

Antrim football champs St Gall's have received a big boost with the news that their county board have put off the investigation into a county final bust up until next Wednesday.