The Mayo senior football camp received a massive boost ahead of the Connacht SFC final in two weeks time when Aidan O’Shea lined out for Breaffy in the county championship yesterday.

A man seen fleeing the scene of a near-fatal shooting in Limerick two years ago has been identified by several of his neighbours.

TOMÁS Ó FLATHARTA’S selector Martin McNamara has slammed the decision to sack the Kerry native, saying it went against the wishes of the players.

Tomás Ó Flatharta says that it was 'with extreme reluctance' that he accepted the decision of the Galway GAA clubs to end his term as the county's senior football manager.

Tomás Ó Flatharta's reign as manager of the Galway senior footballers is over, after club delegates voted for a change of management.

NEW Galway football manager Tomás Ó Flatharta is all but certain to be without the county’s top marksman Michael Meehan for the entirety of the National League.

Marts: Year-to-date indications are that the average price being paid to producers for weanlings is up on 2006 by a margin of just over 7%, with heifers showing marginally more gain than bulls.

Marts: The weanling trade is being driven by the scale of quality with a difference of more than €400 between stock of similar weight, as the margin between the prices being paid by export buyers and the home farmer trade continues to widen to a decisive difference in the return for producers.

YOU’LL Never Walk Alone, the immortal anthem penned by the aptly named Gerry and the Pacemakers, belted out as nurses marched outside one of the country’s largest hospitals yesterday.

Marts: There is a stronger live trade at the marts particularly for beef animals, forward stores and the top of the range weanlings this week with gains of up to €30/head.

A YOUNG boy who beat cancer yesterday achieved his dream of playing against his beloved Galway football team in his own back garden.

DON'T ask him to predict the result.