Sligo footballers are on the lookout for a new manager after Niall Carew announced his decision to step down.

Sean Cavanagh is feeling the heat as he walks among friends and neighbours close to the fast-flowing boundary that divides Tyrone and Armagh, the River Blackwater.

The 2017 championship season is fast reaching a gripping climax but for many inter-county managers, they’re left twiddling their thumbs after bowing out of the hurling and football competitions earlier than they would have hoped.

A full hour after the astroturf had settled, crowds were still coming through the turnstiles in the Bronx.

Sligo survived a brief but real scare in the Bronx tonight before their experience and class told late on to see off a spirited New York.

Connacht Council secretary John Prenty has called for third-level teams to be pulled from the province’s FBD league.

GPA national executive member Ronan Sweeney accepts players who come home from unsuccessful AFL stints face a challenging return.

Trust us when we write this: there is enough reason to believe the war waged against Lee Keegan by Dublin GAA figures since the drawn All-Ireland final is a campaign.

Niall Carew has no need to dig into his reservoir of Clare football DVDs ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland qualifier third round game in Markievicz Park. 

Sligo 2-15 Leitrim 0-10: Shane Ward has indicated he wants to stay in charge of Leitrim for a third year after their 2016 championship campaign came to a halt in Sligo on Saturday evening.

Sligo captain Mark Breheny believes the football qualifiers have run their course and reckons change is necessary so to keep fresh the All-Ireland SFC format.

Niall Carew has hit out at Joe Brolly for continuing what he says is a “vendetta” against Kieran McGeeney and dismissed the pundit’s contention that Kildare’s players were too afraid to make mistakes under McGeeney’s stewardship.

Dublin GAA will continue to pocket the largest slice of Central Council funding until smaller counties find their voice and challenge the status quo, according to Sligo football manager Niall Carew.

Sligo 2-15 Kildare 2-14: Sligo boss Niall Carew came back to haunt his home county as his side ended Kildare’s perfect run in this Division 3 campaign at St Conleth’s Park yesterday.

Johnny Martyn suffered two strokes, but he is still eager to get back on the football field if doctors give him the all-clear...

UCD senior football manager John Divilly would not lose any sleep if the Leinster Council were to follow Munster’s example and stop inviting third level teams into their pre-season competitions.

Niall Carew has committed his future to Sligo for the next two years.

Mayo may have annexed their fifth Connacht championship title in a row last month, but it was also their most low-key campaign. 

Sligo manager Niall Carew will be calling on Mark Breheny and his other batch of ‘vets’ to stay on in 2016 so that the Connacht side can build on what he views as a season of promise.

Sligo will invoke the spirit of 2002 as they strive to redeem themselves against Tyrone at Croke Park today.

Mayo 6-25 Sligo 2-11

The cry ‘consistency’ has become an unlikely clarion call in recent years.

Niall Carew has reinvented Sligo. The Kildare native experiences his first Connacht final tomorrow at Hyde Park, as the county renews rivalries with Mayo, three years after losing narrowly to their neighbours in the decider at the Roscommon venue.

If there is one Sligo player who’ll see Sunday’s game against Mayo as a shot at redemption it will be the Connacht Senior finalists’ full-forward, Pat Hughes.

Sligo 1-14 Roscommon 0-13: Underdogs Sligo had too much bite for an under-performing Roscommon in Saturday’s absorbing Connacht SFC semi-final at Markievicz Park.

Sligo manager Niall Carew says the chance to work with David Kelly and Adrian Marren was the big reason he accepted the chance to manage the Yeats County.

Seventy-seven days the Sligo footballers have waited, the 33rd county to enter the championship arena.

Few managers provide quotes quite like Kieran McGeeney. The Armagh manager rarely has nothing to say.

Sligo 2-10, Wexford 1-8:

Sligo 2-26, Louth 2-9 Sligo kick-started their faltering Division 3 campaign with a sparkling defeat of Louth at Markievicz Park, their first win in four league outings.