SEAMUS McENANEY will continue as Meath manager despite serious consternation about his new management team and the release of statements from his former selectors Barry Callaghan and Liam Harnan.

SEAN BOYLAN is poised to make a dramatic return to the main stage in Meath as the new director of football.

MEATH manager Seamus McEnaney will re-jig his backroom team but has no intention of replacing selector Paul Grimley, who has returned to the Armagh set-up.

WITH Kildare being such a good second-half team, yesterday’s Croke Park clash was always going to be decided after half-time.

“MAY you live in interesting times” is an old Chinese saying that has a certain resonance in Meath football at present.

IT was early in the night at last October’s All Stars when the topic of who would succeed Eamonn O’Brien as Meath manager was broached with a couple of Royals’ footballers.

SEAMUS McENANEY has revealed he was always aware of the enormity of the decision facing Meath to consider appointing a non-native as manager for the first time.

SEAMUS McENANEY was finally given the green light to become the fifth manager of the Meath senior football team in seven seasons at the county board meeting in Navan last night.

MEATH secretary Cyril Creavin fears the county’s search for a new senior football boss may drag on until 2011 if Seamus McEnaney is not ratified at tonight’s crunch board meeting in Navan.

REIGNING All-Ireland champions Cork and Tipperary will both enjoy home advantage for their opening provincial ties next season after the Munster Council finalised their 2011 fixture arrangements last night.

THE rift in Monaghan football between the county’s players and board officials widened further last night, with defender Damien Freeman calling on the board to coax Seamus McEnaney back into the frame for the county senior manager post, after McEnaney earlier yesterday revealed he will not be going forward for nomination for the 2011 season.

SEAMUS McENANEY is set to remain in charge of the Monaghan senior footballers with a new three-year term for the Clonduff man likely to be rubberstamped next Monday night.

Daragh Ó Conchúir talks to Seamus McEnaney who is desperate to bring Ulster final success back to Monaghan.

IT WAS a decision that could well have brought the curtain down on his six-year tenure as Monaghan manager so it is hardly surprising Seamus McEnaney still won’t be drawn on it.

THE effects of the global downturn can be seen everywhere, and the lack of inter-county teams travelling for pre-season training in the sun is one example. But Brendan O’Brien met the man who found a silver lining in that particular cloud.

Donal Keoghan has stepped down as Cavan senior football manager, following the Breffni men's agonising All-Ireland SFC qualifier exit at the hands of Kildare.

The Monaghan County Committee has confirmed that Seamus McEnaney will remain in charge of the county's senior footballers for the 2008 season.

Damien Freeman is in his third season as Monaghan captain and is keen to put his leadership qualities to good use this Sunday when the Farney men contest their first Ulster SFC decider since 1988.

Five men are in the running to become Cavan's new senior football manager and replace Martin McElkennon, who quit last month.

Seamus McEneaney is to be offered two more years as manager of the Monaghan senior football side.

Martin McElkennon has announced his resignation as manager of the Cavan senior and Under-21 footballers.

Tipperary looked a shadow of their former selves as Ciaran Duignan scored six points to guide Leitrim into the Tommy Murphy Cup semi-finals at Semple Stadium.

CAVAN footballer Paul Brady, left, has withdrawn from his side’s All-Ireland SFC qualifier with Kildare on Saturday.

TYRONE defender Eoghan Bradley has won his appeal over a straight red card which had threatened to wreck his season.

Captain Benny Coulter ensured it was first blood to Down in the Ulster SFC as he scored the only goal in a 1-13 to 0-11 preliminary round win over Cavan at Casement Park.

Cavan have called on the services of world champion handballer Paul Brady for tomorrow's Bank of Ireland Ulster SFC Preliminary round clash with Down (Casement Park, throw-in 3.30pm).

NICHOLAS WALSH didn’t think things could get much worse that day as he was ferried out of Breffni Park in an ambulance with a broken bone in his leg.

Knockbride attacker Larry Reilly will make his first start of this season's National Football League when Cavan line out against Sligo on Sunday (Markievicz Park, throw-in 2.30pm).

Seanie Johnston and Ronan Flanagan, fresh from helping DCU win its first Sigerson Cup, have both been named in the Cavan team for Sunday's NFL Division 2B outing against Tipperary (Kingspan Breffni Park, throw-in 2.30pm).

Cavan manager Martin McElkennon is to plan without the services of Michael Lyng and Paul Brady for the remainder of the NFL Division 2B campaign.

Cavan manager Martin McElkennon will be without the services of forwards Larry Reilly (knee) and Michael Lyng (groin) for most of the 2006 National Football League.

Jack O'Connor is set to remain on as Kerry football manager for another season despite speculation that he would step aside after losing the All-Ireland final to Tyrone.

Martin McElkennon was last night ratified as the new Cavan football manager after impressing in a caretaker capacity during the summer.

Mayo 0-11 Cavan 0-8

Both Tyrone and Armagh name their sides for Saturday's Ulster SFC final replay tonight, and five-time AllStar Peter Canavan is expected to start for the Red Hands.

AFTER an up and down season Cavan find themselves in the last 12 at the business end of the Bank of Ireland football championship while Meath, for a third successive season, have had the back door slammed in their face by an Ulster team.