Kerry 1-12 Mayo 1-12, Austin Stack Park

Westmeath turned in an excellent team performance to defeat Monaghan by five points in this exciting and eventful NFL Division 2 game at Cusack Park, Mullingar yesterday.

IF a perfect result amounts to both sides taking what they deserved from the action, then this was precisely that.

TIPPERARY boss John Evans has vowed to abide by the county board’s stance on management payments.

Paul Kerrigan tallied up 1-6 as Cork booked their place in the final of the McGrath Cup with a comfortable 2-17 to 0-7 dismissal of Cork IT this afternoon.

MARK Collins grabbed the late point that ensured UCC warmed up for their forthcoming Sigerson Cup campaign in perfect fashion, as they claimed victory over Carlow IT in last night’s HE SFL Division 1 (Ryan Cup) final at the Waterford IT grounds in Carriganore.

TEN MONTHS after hobbling off in Pearse Stadium with a snapped cruciate ligament for the second time in his career, Colm O’Neill announced his return to the inter-county senior stage in style yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn.

ST. SAVIOURS secured their top flight status for 2012 with a facile victory in this Waterford SFC relegation play-off at Carriganore on Saturday.

A HAT-TRICK of goals in the first half by corner-forward Conor Keane proved instrumental in propelling St Brendan’s to victory over Cork opponents St Fachtna’s in their opening Corn Uí Mhuirí Group B encounter in Cloughduv yesterday afternoon.

CAVAN referee Joe McQuillan will take charge of his first All-Ireland final when Kerry and Dublin duel on September 18.

The GAA has confirmed the referees and match officials for the 2011 All-Ireland Senior and Minor Football Championship finals on September 18, with Joe McQuillan taking charge of his first SFC decider.

THE oft-battered cult of the outside manager got a fillip, not a flake, in the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday. You only had to see what victory meant to Limerick football boss Maurice Horan, a Mayo native, at the final whistle.

IN KERRY’S Munster Championship first round clash with Tipperary, the ingredients for a shock in Killarney were coming nicely to the boil when Maurice Condon called for half-time.

SUMMER may have begunpositively on the scoreboard forthe Kerry footballers yesterday, yet another disciplinary storm diminished their enjoyment of this Munster SFC quarter-final success.

Kerry 2-16 Tipperary 0-11

Armagh forward Stevie McDonnell has defended Eoin Cadogan in Cork's Evening Echo newspaper today and hopes his red card will be rescinded to free the Rebel defender to play in the league final against Dublin.

CORK defender Michael Shields is hopeful GAA disciplinary chiefs will review Maurice Condon’s dismissal of Eoin Cadogan in Sunday’s Division 1 league tie in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

THERE were positives for both protagonists at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

A CRAZY and intense afternoon in Navan yesterday. This All-Ireland semi-final had it all but ultimately only victory for Ulster champions Crossmaglen Rangers.

LAST year’s finalists UCC endured a testing Sigerson Cup opener in the Mardyke yesterday afternoon before prevailing against GMIT and advancing to a repeat of last season’s final in the last eight against DCU.

Derry 1-18 Carlow 2-9, Dr Cullen Park

Meath 2-14 Laois 0-10

MEATH manager Eamon O’Brien has called on the GAA to ‘clarify’ the revised handpass rules in Gaelic football.

Galway 2-13 New York 0-12

AS modes of recovery go, theirs was plucked straight from leftfield.

UCC maintained their habit of eking out tight wins in uncompromising games in yesterday’s Sigerson Cup second round clash at the Mardyke.

Kerins O'Rahillys (Kerry) 0-6 Kilmurry Ibrickane (Clare) 0-7

CORK conjured up a dominant second-half display that saw them home with plenty to spare in yesterday’s Munster JFC semi-final in Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney.

St Malachy's Castlewellan 0-15 Ashbourne CS 0-7