Odhrán Mac Niallais will be happy to play under any of the four candidates to succeed Jim McGuinness as Donegal manager — but his personal favourite is Rory Gallagher.

Brian Cody has avoided suspension for comments about referee Barry Kelly in the wake of Kilkenny’s All-Ireland hurling final replay win over Tipperary last month.

Dr. Crokes (Kerry) 3-12 Tir Chonaill Gaels (London) 0-6

Winter training is an undeniably hard slog in London, but it’s almost become second nature to Brian McBrearty.

The ratification of Mick O’Dowd as Meath’s new senior football manager took place at a County Board meeting in Navan last night.

Dublin football fans got their wish last night with confirmation that highly rated underage guru Jim Gavin will take charge of the senior team.

Andy McEntee has declined to be interviewed for the vacant Meath senior football manager's role, leaving four candidates left out of an initial list of 10.

Meath legends Colm O’Rourke, above left and Graham Geraghty, above right, are among the nominations for the county’s vacant senior football post.

THE majority of inter-county teams will be permitted to return to collective training in November as part of Central Council’s proposed phased closed season.

Former captain Paul Griffin could miss Dublin's entire Championship campaign, amid reports of a more serious complication of the cruciate knee ligament injury he suffered last year.

A CRAZY and intense afternoon in Navan yesterday. This All-Ireland semi-final had it all but ultimately only victory for Ulster champions Crossmaglen Rangers.

Crossmaglen Rangers (Armagh) 2-11 Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 1-12

DUBLIN manager Pat Gilroy believes last year’s captain Paul Griffin will return before the end of the Allianz Football League and, potentially, for an AIB All-Ireland Club final with Kilmacud Crokes.

CRAIG DIAS faces a hectic February if he is to help the ambitions of his club, college and county in winning silverware.

A FOURTH Leinster Club SFC title for Kilmacud Crokes and the sweetest of them all, according to their manager Paddy Carr and captain Pat Burke.

BRIAN KAVANAGH has admitted that Kilmacud Crokes may benefit most from the Leinster Council’s decision to push back Sunday’s provincial club finals to January.

KILMACUD CROKES manager Paddy Carr has backed calls for a postponement of the AIB Leinster club football and hurling finals until the New Year.

KILMACUD CROKES manager Paddy Carr is predicting a “classical final” when his side does battle with Rhode for Leinster club honours.

SOMEHOW, despite everything, Kilmacud soldier on.

Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes and Offaly side Rhode will contest the AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship decider at O'Moore Park on December 5.

KILMACUD CROKES star Ross O’Carroll has admitted his brother, All-Star nominee Rory, will miss the crucial Leinster club semi-final against Garrycastle on Sunday week.

THE most famous victory in the history of the Kilmacud Crokes club?

MEATH legend Liam Harnan has urged county officials to make history by appointing Seamus McEnaney as their first ever non native manager.

A STORMING second-half, powered by the magnificence of Mark Vaughan and Brian Kavanagh, sealed Kilmacud Crokes’ seventh Dublin SFC title at Parnell Park yesterday.

NEW Galway football manager Tomás O Flatharta hopes to have his backroom team in place in the coming weeks. The Kerryman, who has taken over from Joe Kernan for the next three years said he was really looking forward to the job and would have no problem combining it with his daytime profession as a business manager with AIB in Dublin.

DUBLIN’S history of success against Louth will mean nothing in Saturday’s All-Ireland Qualifier because Peter Fitzpatrick’s team is “the best in Leinster”.

LOUTH’S emergence into the bright lights of a first Leinster final for the first time in half a century is a remarkable story all in itself, but it is one accompanied by a collection of equally eye-catching individual tales.

THE OLD-TIMERS up here have a saying; “There is only a while in anything and all good things must come to an end”.

CROSSMAGLEN have built their reputation on the back of a staggering run of victories in the past 13 years but Kilmacud Crokes defender Niall Corkery believes it is past defeats that can act as their springboard to success on St Patrick’s Day.

FIRST things first. Pat Gilroy’s recent comments that the All-Ireland club championship should be condensed into a calendar year are illogical, unfounded and unworkable.

KILMACUD CROKES manager Paddy Carr has defended the All-Ireland club championships’ St Patrick’s Day slot.

THERE are a couple of rules one must obey when contemplating a chat with Paddy Carr. First, clear the diary of any appointments. Second, take a comfortable seat.

Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 2-07 Rhode (Offaly) 1-07

MARK Vaughan dragged Kilmacud Crokes back from the brink and into the last four of the Leinster club SFC with a sensational late goal at Parnell Park.

IRELAND and Australia may be renewing their tetchy rivalry in Perth this week but an altogether more ancient struggle will get its latest airing at Parnell Park tonight when the best the northside and southside can muster battle for the Dublin SFC title.

Eamonn Barry's reign as Meath senior football manager has lasted barely 12 months - former county player Colm Coyle was appointed as the Royals' new boss last night.

Dudley Farrell has withdrawn his name from the list of candidates for the post of Meath senior football manager.

Not for the first time, Sean Boylan has been nominated for the positon of Meath senior hurling manager.

1995 All-Ireland winner Paul Bealin has been re-appointed as manager of the Wexford senior footballers for a second year.

Eamonn Barry has expressed his delight at being appointed as new manager of the Meath footballers.