Sligo ran riot in the second half against 14-man Antrim at Markievicz Park to take a comfortable All-Ireland SFC Round 1A Qualifier win.

UCC were given every chance to bring this Sigerson Cup semi-final to extra-time. They squandered the lot and so St Mary’s will contest their first decider in 24 years this afternoon.

Sigerson Cup - St Mary’s 2-14 DCU-Dóchas Éireann 2-13 (AET): St Mary’s manager Paddy Tally praised his side after their dramatic upset in beating hosts and favourites DCU-Dóchas Éireann.

Tipperary 2-12 Antrim 0-13: A much-improved second-half display saw Tipperary claim an opening day victory over Antrim in Division 3 of the Allianz Football League.

St Mary’s 1-9

Antrim 0-9 Limerick 2-6: They came, they saw, they conquered — that was Limerick footballers who tasted victory, at Corrigan Park in Belfast on Saturday, for the first time since April 2015, when they carved out a league win over Louth, in Drogheda.

Louth 3-12 Antrim 1-14: Louth manager Colin Kelly admitted he wasn’t surprised that the big man with the big reputation delivered for the Wee County in spectacular fashion.

Powerful full-forward Conor Grimes struck a decisive 71st minute goal at Croke Park as Louth came from behind to secure a dramatic Allianz football league Division 4 title success.

St Mary’s 1-11 Dublin IT 2-6 (AET): St Mary’s set up a Belfast derby quarter-final with 2016 Sigerson Cup hosts UUJ as they fought back to beat DIT in extra-time on Garvaghey’s 3G pitch.

Offaly 1-13 Antrim 1-07: “We do things the hard way here by the looks of things.” That was the verdict of Offaly manager Pat Flanagan after the Faithful County secured their promotion out of Division 4 with a win over Antrim at O’Connor Park yesterday afternoon.

Antrim 1-12 London 1-8

Sigerson Cup: St Mary’s 0-11 DCU 1-11 (AET)

Allianz FL Division 4 Round 2: Longford 0-14 Antrim 0-13: A free from the boot of Brian Kavanagh helped Longford to a narrow win over Antrim in their Division 4 clash played in foggy conditions at Glennon Brothers Pearse Park.

St Mary’s College 1-10 NUI Galway 1-7

Armagh 2-11 St Mary’s 0-14: A stunning 2-4 contribution from livewire corner-forward Gavin McParland underpinned this hard-earned Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup win for Armagh at the saturated Athletic Grounds last night.

Golf fans will need to be up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to arrive in good time at Fota Island to watch the marquee draw in the first round of the Irish Open Championship.

Graeme McDowell will get Ireland’s challenge at the 2014 Masters up and running tomorrow at Augusta National when he tees off in the opening round of the year’s first major championship at 2.35pm Irish time.

Aghada 1-08 Newmarket 0-09

Carbery Rangers 2-14 Newmarket 0-07

Ireland’s hopes of regaining the R&A Trophy in the Boys Home International Championship at Co Louth were dealt an opening day blow when they suffered a 9½-5½ defeat to defending champions England.

Monaghan turned on the style in the second half to book their place in the Ulster MFC semi-finals.

Katie Taylor will make her first appearance in Cork tomorrow night in her penultimate bout in Ireland before she jets off for the 2012 World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China, where she’ll be hoping to qualify for the 2012 London Olympics.

Ireland’s U17 girls were not giving up their Euro dream last night despite suffering a crushing defeat to France in their opening UEFA Elite Stage qualifier in Oslo yesterday.

A TENSE and exciting all North Cork Co IFC relegation final at Glantane yesterday went Killavullen’s way, Ballyclough now going down to junior ranks.

AGHABULLOGUE cruised into round four of the Cork IFC after brushing Ballyclough aside at Donoughmore yesterday.

DOWN’S hurlers strolled to an Ulster SHC semi-final, hammering Derry by 16 points at Casement Park yesterday.

Inniskeen Grattans (Monaghan) 2-10 Caherlistrane (Galway) 1-11

Dublin have been boosted by the return of regular goalkeeper Stephen Cluxton for Sunday's NFL Division 1A visit of Monaghan to Parnell Park (throw-in 2.30pm).

Dublin manager Paul Caffrey has named five league debutants in his side for Sunday’s Allianz NFL Division 1A opener against Tyrone in Omagh (throw-in 2.30pm).

Carbery Rangers (Cork) 0-9 Inniskeen Grattans (Monaghan) 0-12

Dublin will face arch rivals Meath in Sunday's O'Byrne Cup semi-final without influential centre half-forward Alan Brogan.

Dublin 0-13 Wexford 1-8

Dublin manager Paul Caffrey has opted to field an experimental line-up for tonight's O'Byrne Cup first round tie with UCD at O'Toole Park.

NICHOLAS MURPHY, Anthony Lynch and Derek Kavanagh will undergo fitness tests before Cork finalise their team to meet Donegal in the Allianz National Football League at Ballybofey on Sunday.

Paddy Christie will line out at centre-back for Dublin in Sunday’s Blue Stars football clash in Kilbarrack (2pm).

Dublin will get the defence of their All-Ireland U-21 football title underway on Saturday and have named a strong side to take on neighbours Wicklow.

Tyrone are looking to add the U21 football title to their senior crown when they take on Dublin in the All-Ireland final at Navan today.

Dublin senior player and former minor captain Bryan Cullen has got the nod to line out for the U-21s in tomorrow's All-Ireland final against Tyrone in Navan.

Dublin U-21 football boss Tommy Lyons has kept faith in a winning formula by make no changes to his lineup ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final in Thurles against Waterford.

Dublin have stuck with a winning formula ahead of Sunday's Leinster U-21 final clash with Longford in Mullingar.

Dublin star Conal Keaney has shaken off a niggling calf injury in time for Dublin's NHL clash with Derry on Sunday.

Stand in Dublin boss Dave Billings has named a strong team to face Wicklow in the O'Byrne Cup on Sunday despite being without nearly half his squad.