Longford boss Luke Dempsey has made four changes from the side that drew with Monaghan in the last round of the league for Sunday's Leinster football championship meeting with Dublin at Croke Park.

LUKE DEMPSEY’S new-look Longford side went top of the National Football League Division 2A table when they came from behind to beat Fermanagh in this re-fixed game in front of 3,000 at Pearse Park.

Longford 1-14 Waterford 1-5

Longford rekindled their championship hopes and memories of their February league wins over Kerry and Westmeath as a brace of extra-time goals saw them to their first championship win over Monaghan, 4-15 to 1-17 in an exhaustive qualifier in Clones.

CARLOW are refusing to rest on their laurels after Sunday’s surprise win over Longford and are preparing for their meeting with Leinster champions Laois at Dr Cullen Park in three weeks’ time.

Carlow 4-15 Longford 1-16

TWENTY-ONE days it’s taken Carlow football to catapult from a trough of depression onto the crest of a wave.

Carlow 4-15 Longford 1-16

Dublin 2-12 Longford 2-9

UNDER 21 stars Sean Cavanagh and John Devine return to the Tyrone team for Sunday’s Alianz National Football League Division 1 ‘A’ clash with Kerry at Omagh.

Longford 1-8 Fermanagh 0-13

BRILLIANT wing-forward Stephen Kelly is a surprise omission from the Limerick team to play Galway in Division 1B of the Allianz NFL at Ballinasloe on Sunday.

Westmeath 1-13 Longford 2-12

KERRY boss Jack O’Connor remains in positive mood despite the traumatic start to his management career against Longford on Sunday.

IN Pearse Park on Sunday, among the large crowd braving the elements, there will be the old-timers evoking 1968, the year Longford footballers were feasting at the top table.

IT took Brian Lacey some time before becoming accustomed to the Kildare dressingroom over the winter and spring.

YOU WANT to understand the change in Kildare football. You want to know how they are coping in their brave new world, how much they miss — or don’t miss — Micko. You need to discover how an age of uncertainty transformed swiftly into an age of unexpected success.

THEY weren’t expecting much in Kildare this summer.

Kildare 1-14, Longford 2-6

Kildare advanced to a semi-final date with Meath or Westmeath next month, following a bruising encounter with Longford at Cusack Park.

First-half goals by Niall Sheridan and Trevor Smullen put Longford in control by the slenderest of margins at half-time in the Leinster SFC at O'Moore Park.

Westmeath full-back David Mitchell has been ruled out of the NFL Division Two final against Limerick on May 4 with a leg injury.

A MEMBER of the Garda Representative Association admitted yesterday he trusted only half of the force’s senior management in Donegal.

ONE of the key witnesses in the tribunal into allegations of garda corruption in Donegal faced pressure to withdraw claims her husband was involved in staging hoax explosives finds, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Longford boss Denis Connerton has named an unchanged side to face Wexford in Sunday's NFL clash with Wexford at Pearse Park.

TRALEE Institute of Technology will include Kerry seniors Donal Daly and Colm Cooper for tomorrow’s Sigerson Cup clash with Dundalk IT at Stradbally, Co. Laois.

Longford forward Niall Sheridan is back at full-forward ahead of Sunday's NFL Div 2B clash with Carlow at Dr Cullen Park.

MAYO manager John Maughan introduces three newcomers for Sunday’s NFL tie with Sligo in Castlebar.

The two Irishmen who were drowned in Agadir in Morocco have been named.

Dublin are always one of the most keenly watched teams in the championship, and this year will be no different.