DERRY chairman Seamus McCloy has played down suggestions the Ballinderry club is threatening to pull its players from the county squad.

LIMERICK footballer John Galvin has urged his hurling counterparts to make it a Shannonside double act in the Munster championship finals.

CORK football boss Conor Counihan has added four of the county’s recent All-Ireland U21 winners to the senior panel ahead of Sunday’s Munster SFC opener against Waterford in Dungarvan.

WESTMEATH secretary Pat Lynagh has revealed Denis Glennon’s return to inter-county training on Tuesday night came as a result of a couple of meetings between the player, manager, Tomás O Flatharta, and county board officials.

WHEN Damien Cassidy opened his post-match press conference with a joke it said everything about the importance Derry attached to claiming the Division One title yesterday.

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas” (John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel)

NO place for Tadhg Kennelly, and a experimental midfield partnership of Anthony Maher and Mike Quirke, might suggest Kerry are half-hearted about tomorrow’s Allianz Football League final.

MICHAEL SHIELDS continues at full-back, with Ray Carey and Anthony Lynch holding down the corner-back positions as Cork announce the same starting side that defeated Armagh in their final group qualifying game for Sunday’s Allianz NFL Division Two final against Monaghan at Croke Park.

HOLDERS Derry have been dealt a number of shattering blows ahead of Sunday’s Division One Allianz NFL final with Kerry at Croke Park.

A man has died following an assault in Co Tyrone at the weekend.

The brother of a Derry GAA star is fighting for his life in hospital after being assaulted in Cookstown, Co Tyrone, over the weekend.

JAMES ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick is facing a race against time to play any part in Kilkenny’s remaining divisional games in the National Hurling League.

Derry 0-13 Galway 2-7

Crossmaglen have received a boost ahead of their Ulster club final replay against Ballinderry on Sunday.

BALLINDERRY SHAMROCKS (Derry) 1-10 CROSSMAGLEN RANGERS (Armagh) 1-10, Brewster Park

TO BORROW the words of a famous fictional Roman general: ‘Are you not entertained?’ Ulster has shone like a beacon in what has been a mediocre championship but never so bright as on Saturday evening.

Fermanagh 1-11 Derry 1-9

Donegal 1-12 Derry 1-14

Sean Marty Lockhart comes in as one of four changes to the Derry team for Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final tie with Donegal (Ballybofey, throw-in 4pm).

Derry manager Paddy Crozier has rotated his side for tomorrow night's NFL Division 1 encounter with Laois in Portlaoise, throw-in at 7pm.

CORK champions Erin’s Own have no injury worries ahead of Sunday’s Munster Club SHC final against Toomevara at the Gaelic Grounds, Limerick (2pm throw-in).

New Derry senior football manager Paddy Crozier has confirmed his panel for the opening months of the 2006 season.

Derry have been forced to leave a vacancy at corner forward this weekend following Paul Bradley's cruciate knee injury.

Derry stalwarts Paul McFlynn, Niall McCusker and Francis McEldowney have all been ruled out of Sunday's Ulster SFC clash against Monaghan at Clones.

Michael Ellard

A full-strength Tyrone side will take to the field today to defend their Dr McKenna Cup title in the final against Derry.

DERRY skipper Paddy Bradley has ruled himself out of Sunday’s McKenna Cup final against Tyrone. But the All Star nominee is hoping for a speedy return from an ankle injury in time for the crunch Div 2B league tie with Cavan on March 6.

Derry 0-12 Fermanagh 0-08

Defending champions Limerick host college side Cork IT in the McGrath Cup final at the Gaelic Grounds today.

THE Connacht Council has warned the public off buying unauthorised GAA calendars in the province.

Derry 1-10 Wexford 0-2

Derry 0-25 Cavan 2-9 aet

Derry 3-10

Derry 1-9 Tyrone 0-12