Louth 1-16 Leitrim 0-11: They may not be All-Ireland contenders any time soon but Louth continue to show an uncanny knack for churning out talented young forwards.

After a difficult day at the coalface of Championship football, Louth manager Colin Kelly managed to mine several nuggets of positivity.

As a man with a keen eye for a score in almost 15 years operating at senior level for Louth, Colin Kelly was always going to attempt to make the county a force in an attacking sense once he took over the reins.

Fermanagh 0-16 Louth 0-7: Allianz Football League Division 3: Fermanagh began their Division Three campaign with a resounding home victory over Louth on Saturday night.

Rhode (Offaly) 2-09 St Patrick’s (Louth) 0-10

Munster Council chief executive Simon Moroney has expressed relief that the controversy which overshadowed this year’s provincial senior football championship has been resolved.

Louth 1-14 Westmeath 1-9

Louth 1-14 Westmeath 1-9

Seventeen-year-old Leaving Cert student Ryan Burns has been named on the bench for Louth's Leinster Championship opener against Westmeath on Saturday night.

Donegal and Monaghan retain their position of strength at the top of Division 2 of the Allianz Football League after their wins over Louth and Laois.

Louth manager Aidan O’Rourke claims Dublin players got around the black card rule on Wednesday evening by cynically “bear hugging” star midfielder Paddy Keenan.

All-Ireland champions Dublin and reigning O'Byrne Cup champions Kildare claimed first round wins in the Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup today, while Longford, Wexford, Offaly, Meath and Wicklow were also victorious this afternoon.

St Patricks’ reign as county senior football champions is over.

Cooley Kickhams are through to the senior championship decider following their 2-9 to 0-9 win over first-time semi-finalists O’Connells.

St Patrick’s, chasing a third successive Louth SFC title, were given a huge fright in the senior championship quarter-finals over the weekend.

The most exciting of the weekend’s six Louth SFL matches was one involving teams in the relegation zone.

Louth manager Aidan O'Rourke has made three personnel changes for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC second round qualifier against Kildare in Newbridge (throw-in 7pm).

Louth 1-17 Antrim 1-11

Louth 1-15 Wexford 2-13

Wexford 2-13 Louth 1-15

Louth 1-16 Laois 1-6, Portlaoise

Donie Kingston will start for Laois in Sunday's Leinster SFC first round match against Louth at O'Moore Park (throw-in 3pm).

Louth 1-14 Longford 1-8

Louth 1-12 Armagh 1-10

Armagh 1-10 Louth 1-12

Louth 2-9 Wexford 2-13

Louth 0-17 Galway 0-11

Louth 0-17 Galway 0-11

Crossmaglen Rangers players Aaron Kernan and Jamie Clarke have been named in the Ulster team for Sunday's M Donnelly Interprovincial Football final against Leinster at Croke Park (throw-in 3.45pm).

Keeping with the Interprovincials, quite a few people bought into the idea that Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney, prevented his players from lining out for Leinster in the series.

Leinster 1-21 Connacht 1-20

Leinster 1-21 Connacht 1-20

Louth had 11 points to spare over Longford ( 1-17 to 0-9), as they set up a home semi-final against Dublin in the Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup.

Louth remain top of Group A in the Bord na Mona Cup after Jim McEneaney grabbed the equalising point in their dramatic 0-11 to 1-8 draw with Meath at Pairc Tailteann last night.

Sarsfields (Kildare)1-12 St Patrick’s (Louth) 2-6

Ballymun Kickhams and Sarsfields of Kildare will meet in the semi-finals of the AIB Leinster Club Senior Football Championship after posting wins this afternoon.

Shane McAnarney has been a Meath senior footballer since 2006, but try asking him when he made his debut and he will tell you it came as recently as last year.

Louth manager Peter Fitzpatrick missed this one because he was in hospital with a kidney stone problem and it has to be hoped his supply of painkillers for that excruciating issue is sufficiently topped-up before he chances viewing the DVD of this turgid encounter.

Boston-based Gary Connaughton has given a resounding vote of confidence to his replacement between the Westmeath football posts for Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier clash against Louth, at Mullingar.

Louth team advisor Brian McEniff has wholeheartedly endorsed Peter Fitzpatrick’s assessment of Dublin as “a machine“.

After losing to Cork in their final game of the Allianz League, Pat Gilroy had plenty of food for thought.

Dublin rolled up their sleeves but only to show off their biceps in this terribly one-sided Leinster SFC quarter-final yesterday.

Dessie Finnegan's inclusion at full-back is the only change made to the Louth team for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 4.30pm).