Derry 3-13 Fermanagh 1-10: Derry boss Damian Barton admitted his side had suffered a McKenna Cup ‘hangover’ in the first half of Sunday’s nine-point Division 2 victory over Fermanagh at Celtic Park.

Tyrone 1-22 Derry 1-17 (AET): Derry assistant manager Tony Scullion defended Damian Barton after the Oak Leaf boss was sent to the stand for getting involved in a brawl during Saturday night’s dramatic McKenna Cup final.

Old foes Tyrone and Derry served up a classic at the Athletic Grounds, with the Red Hands emerging victorious in extra-time to take a fifth successive Dr McKenna Cup title.

Cavan 1-10 Derry 1-17: Damian Barton’s promise to get Derry taking a more attacking approach looks to be bearing some early season fruit - his newlook side producing the goods in the Athletic Grounds yesterday to reach the McKenna Cup final.

Galway 1-11 Derry 0-8

Conor Lane came in for a lot of criticism from Derry manager Brian McIver after Saturday’s qualifier against Galway. Was it with justification?

Former Galway star Paul Clancy knows a fair bit about beating Derry sides in championship action having been involved in both Galway’s 1998 and 2001 All-Ireland winning sides that defeated the Ulster men in All-Ireland semi-finals.

Derry 1-16 Wexford 0-10: Two games Derry have won this summer, and both of them have been harder work than they ought to have been.

Cailean O’Boyle comes in for Benny Heron in the only change in the Derry side for tomorrow night’s Ulster SFC semi-final clash with Donegal in St Tiernach’s Park in Clones (7pm).

For more than 9,000 chemistry students, a three-hour Leaving Certificate exam featured one topic examined for the first time.

More than 8,500 students had Junior Certificate exams in Spanish yesterday.

University of Ulster 0-10 DCU 3-10

Ireland’s leading brain injury specialists have expressed serious concern at reports Sean Cavanagh played for Tyrone while concussed last weekend. 

A leading weight-loss surgeon at one of the country’s largest private hospitals has described the HSE’s decision to suspend surgery for dangerously obese public patients for the rest of the year as "morally wrong".

Kerry 2-21 Sligo 0-10

Derry 0-11 Donegal 1-11

Almost like the event itself, it nearly didn’t happen, but a private collector has paid €30,000 for a letter in which Irish Volunteers commander Eoin MacNeill tried to call off the 1916 Rising.

Derry 2-15 Mayo 1-16

A short letter whose 11 words helped change the course of Irish history is to be sold almost 98 years after it severely curtailed the Easter Rising.

ALLIANZ FL DIV 1:

Cork were put to the pins of their collars by Derry in Division 1 of the Allianz Football League at Páirc Uí Rinn today, but by the end their 100% record was still alive.

Derry 3-16 Westmeath 0-12

UCD’s footballers filed through the doors of the large entertainment tent adjacent to the main stand at half-time in this Sigerson Cup semi-final.

The eight-week suspension to Galway hurler Darragh Burke has been cut in half, the Central Hearings Committee ruled yesterday.

Derry 1-15 Tyrone 2-12

Derry 1-15 Tyrone 2-12

Leitrim 1-12 Sligo 2-9

The Defence Forces Chief of Staff is hoping to replace the Air Corps’s ageing fleet of Cessnas and purchase a third new ship for the Naval Service within the next five years.

In the three weeks running up to Antrim’s Ulster opener against Monaghan last year, James Loughrey’s behaviour at training each evening bemused his team-mates.

Douglas’ Peter O’Keeffe showed again he is a talent worth monitoring after sharing top spot in the Munster PGA’s inaugural Morgan O’Donovan Perpetual Trophy at Monkstown GC.

Antrim 1-15 UUJ 2-9

St Eunan’s joint manager, Eamon O’Boyle, was left dazed after being pushed to the ground during anincident on the sideline at yesterday’s Ulster Club SFC fixture at Armagh’s Athletic Grounds yesterday.

Keyhole surgery carried out by a robot will be beamed live by satellite from a Cork hospital to one of the city’s top hotels — and viewed by an audience of hundreds.

You pull into the Texaco filling station by the Drop Arch roundabout in Letterkenny and Donegal bunting, flags and posters are dotted everywhere.

A Donegal club manager has blasted the county board for delaying the senior football championship until after the All-Ireland final.

Dave Kenny was amazed to discover a very rare photograph of Michael Collins in his own attic

A lock of Michael Collins’ hair has been withdrawn from the market on the eve of its controversial auction.

Derry eased their relegation fears with a significant, if hardly stylish, victory over out-of-sorts Meath in Navan.

Kildare finally got amongst the goals, conceded two more and Johnny Doyle showed he is still a key cog in the Kildare machine as they pushed themselves into promotion contention with a hard-fought victory over Derry at St Conleth’s Park yesterday.

Kildare 2-13 Derry 2-8

Tyrone blew neighbours Derry away at Healy Park to step up their bid for promotion.

Allianz Football League Division 2: Tyrone 2-15 Derry 0-9

You know that old chestnut about the attendance of your funeral being largely dependent on the weather?