IF YOU’RE heading down to the Lakes of Killarney in the next week or so you may encounter a large group of walkers out around the shores.

AT the turn of the last century, as the hem of American society was dampened by wave after wave of European immigrants, the Irish stretched out their legs beneath the table, threw a cap onto the coat hook behind the closing door and made themselves at home.

AFTER getting a good look at Kerry and Cork over the last two weekends I headed to Casement Park on Saturday, eager to see how Tyrone are shaping up.

KERRY GAA chiefs are to employ former AFL star Tadhg Kennelly as a coach.

Tyrone manager Micky Harte has named an unchanged team to face Dublin in the All-Ireland football quarter-final on Saturday.

KERRY open their Allianz NFL campaign against Mayo at Austin Stacks Park, Tralee tomorrow night with a new goalkeeper.

Armagh 1-12 Tyrone 1-13

THE rule governing the use of video evidence, under which Tyrone defender Ryan McMenamin won an 11th-hour reprieve to play in tomorrow’s All-Ireland football quarter-final, needs to be amended, said GAA president Sean Kelly yesterday.

Armagh 0-13 Tyrone 0-11

CORK referee Michael Collins has admitted he made a mistake in sending off Tyrone's Stephen O'Neill in Saturday's ill-tempered Ulster SFC Final at Croke Park.

Jim O’Sullivan

THEY haven’t gone away, you know.

BRIAN DOOHER has been ruled out of Sunday’s vital Allianz NFL game with All-Ireland champions Kerry in Fitzgerald Stadium.

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Tyrone manager Micky Harte will name his side tonight to face Mayo on Saturday in the All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park, pending fitness reports on goalkeeper Pascal McConnell and full-forward Owen Mulligan.

GOALKEEPER Peter Burke is expected to return to the Mayo team for the Connacht champions’ All-Ireland SFC quarter final clash with Tyrone at Croke Park on Saturday.

TYRONE manager Micky Harte dropped a minor bombshell last night when announcing his side to take on Laois in the final All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Croke Park on Sunday.

Galway and Tyrone face off in Croke Park today in the glamorous tie of the Round 3 football qualifiers.

DENIS CONNERTON has stepped down as Longford football manager in the wake of their All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Dublin.

Mickey Harte's All-Ireland champions Tyrone hope to retain their title by going through the back door and Down are the first obstacle they must overcome at Newry today.

All-Ireland champions Tyrone have dropped netminder John Devine in favour of his understudy Pascal McConnell for the all-Ulster football qualifier tie with Down at Newry tomorrow.

ALL-IRELAND champions Tyrone have again replaced goalkeeper John Devine with Pascal McConnell for tomorrow’s Bank of Ireland qualifier with Down at Newry.

JOHN CROWLEY says that it will be “touch and go” whether he can play against Cork in the Bank of Ireland Munster football championship semi-final in Killarney on June 13.

Tyrone manager Micky Harte has led tributes to his team captain, Cormac McAnallen, who died suddenly at his home this morning aged 24.

NEW Kerry manager Jack O’Connor yesterday accepted that the county must change and adapt if they are to succeed in the changing world of Gaelic football.

By Jim O’Sullivan says Red Hand celebrations a distraction for U21’s as they face Dublin showdown

Tyrone 0-12 Armagh 0-9

APART from the failure of Dublin to make it back and the absence of Meath for the second successive year, it would be generally accepted that the eight teams who contest the weekend’s football quarter-finals in Croke Park qualified on the basis of their consistency.

LIMERICK are taking no chances ahead of their Bank of Ireland, Munster SFC semi-final clash with next-door neighbours Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis on Sunday next.

Tyrone 0-21 Laois 1-8

DEFENDING champions St Jarlath’s will start favourites to retain their All-Ireland Colleges SFC title when they play St Patrick’s (Maghera) in the final at Breffni Park tomorrow.

PETER CANAVAN and his Tyrone manager Micky Harte will put their National Football League final preparations on hold to concentrate all their energies on their respective schools who will be involved in All-Ireland finals on Sunday.

MICKY HARTE tried his best to put on a brave face after seeing Errigal Chiaráin lose a second AIB All-Ireland club football semi-final to specialists Nemo Rangers in O’Moore Park yesterday.

ALL things considered, this was a sweet victory for 14-man Roscommon in Dr. Hyde Park yesterday.