Derry manager Damian McErlain was a relieved man after his team finally got their Division 3 campaign up-and-running with a five-point victory over Offaly in Celtic Park yesterday.

At underage, the Derry house looks in pretty good nick. It might have taken a few years to furnish, but they got there in the end.

Kerry 1-11 Derry 1-6: The difficulties in claiming back-to-back senior All-Irelands are well-observed, but the feat is no less difficult at the minor grade.

THE father of a teenager who died in a car crash in Tralee has claimed his son would still be alive if a pole, which he said had originally been the barrel of an artillery gun, had not been on a footpath in the town.