ARMAGH’S star full-back Francie Bellew is in line for a one-month ban after a referee’s error when sending the defender off in last Sunday’s NFL defeat to Derry.

Newtownshandrum 1-16 Thurles Sarsfields 0-13

Newtownshandrum 0-15 Cloyne 0-9

ALL-IRELAND champions Cork and runners-up Galway dominate the nominations for the 2005 Vodafone Allstar hurling team, sharing 22 nominations between them.

Cork have kept the faith with the team that started the semi-final against Clare for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland hurling final against Galway.

NOT unexpectedly, the Cork senior hurling selectors have stuck with the same 15 which defeated Waterford in the quarter-final for Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final against Clare in Croke Park.

WITH Pat Mulcahy and Brian Corcoran passed fit to play, the Cork selectors have kept faith with the side that started the Munster final against Tipp for Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland quarter-final showdown with Waterford at Croke Park.

WITH Timmy McCarthy and Kieran Murphy fit, Cork will parade 14 of the side that started last year’s Guinness All-Ireland hurling final for next Sunday’s Munster SHC semi-final clash with Waterford at Semple Stadium.

MANAGER Pat Roe has given the thumbs up to the starting 15 that shocked Tyrone and brought Wexford to their first National Football League final since 1946 for Sunday’s final showdown with Armagh at Croke Park.

UNDER 21 ace, Fintan Gould has been handed the full forward slot on the Cork team for Sunday’s crucial National Football League tie with Offaly in Tullamore.

LAST SEASON’S ‘Young Player of the Year’, Brian Murphy, returns to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz National Hurling League tie with Wexford at Wexford Park.

CORK will be without five of their All-Ireland-winning starting fifteen - Wayne Sherlock, Brian Murphy, John Gardiner, Kieran Murphy and Brian Corcoran - for their opening Allianz National Hurling League game against Limerick at Páirc Uí Rinn on Sunday.

Clare 1-17 Cork 1-16

Athenry 2-22 Cork 4-15

Cloyne 1-14 Newtownshandrum 0-14

AN All-Ireland minor medal winner in 2001, Cian O’Connor takes over the right half-back position from the injured John Gardiner on the Cork team to play Wexford in next Sunday’s Guinness All-Ireland SHC semi-final at Croke Park.

Recording a six second victory in the Circuit of Wicklow Forest Rally, Derryman Kevin Lynch and

There was a dramatic late finish to the Willie Loughman Forest Rally.

Newtownshandrum 0-15 Toomevara 1-9

WATERFORD and Cork have been gripped by a massive scramble for tickets ahead of Sunday’s Guinness Munster SHC final in Thurles.

Cork 2-24, Offaly 0-9

TIPPERARY will be without Eamonn Corcoran, John Carroll and team captain Brian O’Meara for their crucial Allianz NHL tie with Clare at Cusack Park on Sunday.

NA PIARSAIGH young lions John Gardiner and Setanta Ó hAilpín have been given starting positions on the Cork team for Sunday's glamour

Cork 2-12

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN, who recently announced he was quitting football to concentrate on hurling, will miss Cork’s Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park on Sunday because of a groin injury.

Cork’s John McCarthy/Dan Maguire made an impressive start to the KBB Doors National Forest Championship with a dominant victory in the Suirway Lifts Carrick on Suir Forest Rally. Debuting a Subaru Impreza 555, they controlled the rally from the opening stage.