TYRONE will be playing NFL Division Two football for the first time in the 21st century next year, courtesy of a power-packed first-half display from a Dublin side playing their best football of the campaign.

SATURDAY night in Páirc Uí Rinn was an instructive league exercise that will assist both Conor Counihan and Pat Gilroy when it comes to finalising their championship blueprints.

Dublin 1-11 Derry 0-7

PERFORMANCES, rather than points, will be the focus for Dublin’s footballers this weekend when they follow last Sunday’s win in Killarney with another Division One tie against Derry at Parnell Park.

MICHAEL McAULEY may get his chance to prove he’s Dublin’s new Ciarán Whelan when the 2010 season begins on Sunday.

St Michael's College lock Emmet McMahon will lead the Ireland Under-19 Schools team, coached by Terry McMaster and Bobby Byrne, to play the Australian Under-19 Schools at UCD tomorrow.

Dublin senior panellist Diarmuid Connolly will line out for the county's U21s this Saturday, having recovered from the shoulder injury he sustained last week in the National League.

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MARDYKE UCC Demons are rated as one of the best junior teams ever to come out of Cork and if they cross paths with either the defending champions, Shamrock Rovers, or Dart Killester in the final of the ESB Men’s Junior Cup at the ESB Arena tomorrow night, then they could provide the game of the weekend.

Eamonn Boland/Anthony Nestor in their NVD Subaru were the top Irish crew in the Ypres Rally.