Monaghan 4-16 Laois 0-8

Peter Turley will start at full-back in the Down team for tomorrow's GAA All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier against Wexford at Croke Park (throw-in 2pm).

Down manager Ross Carr has kept faith with the team that started last weekend's win over Offaly, although he has made a number of positional switches for tomorrow's SFC All-Ireland qualifier trip to O'Moore Park in Laois (throw-in 7pm).

Following a misfiring evening against Longford last weekend, Laois forwards Ross Munnelly and MJ Tierney have been dropped to the substitutes bench for tomorrow's GAA Football All-Ireland qualifier against Down in Portlaoise (throw-in 7pm).

LAOIS selector Andy Shortall has backed their rookies to rise to the occasion in Sunday’s Leinster semi-final against Wexford.

MICK O’DWYER’S old pupils in Laois showed in Dr Cullen Park on Saturday that they haven’t forgotten what they learned from him and that they are maintaining progress under one of his former players in Kerry.

Leinster manager Val Andrews has a panel of 24 players available to him for Saturday night's floodlit Interprovincial semi-final against Connacht.

The temperatures may have gone down a few degrees in the past week but the heat will certainly be on for Derry, Laois, Monaghan and Tyrone today as they bid to make the last eight of this year's All-Ireland football championship.

THERE were more twists than Fair City and a mighty Quinn to give it an appropriate climax, but when the dust had settled on yesterday’s Leinster football final at Croke Park, the same question stood on its end, begging an answer.

WE HAD the luxury of naming an unchanged Championship 15 for the first time since I came to Laois ahead of tomorrow’s Croke Park sell-out.

Laois 2-10 Kildare 2-9

REFEREES’ representative Fr Seamus Gardiner has voiced concerns over the experimental football rules introduced at the weekend.

Westmeath’s Leinster SFC final hopes almost ended in an enthralling tussle at Croke Park this afternoon, but a 72nd minute equalising point from skipper Chris Conway saw champions Laois live to fight another day, in a 0-13 to 0-13 stalemate.

WHILE they are already favourites for Leinster, with some tipping them for even greater glory, Laois manager Mick O’Dwyer is keeping a lid on the hype that is threatening to envelop his vibrant team again this summer.

Limerick 2-13 Laois 1-5

YOU still get it. That heavy-hearted feeling after a Croke Park defeat.

THE stunning success of Laois in regaining the Leinster football championship was as personally fulfilling for Mick O’Dwyer as anything he has achieved in football over five decades of involvement.

Laois 2-13 Kildare 1-13

MICK O’Dwyer steered Kildare to a league final appearance in 1991 in his first season in charge just as he did with Laois earlier this year.

Garvan and Clancy? Much like the Laois footballers, you mightn’t have heard much about them before this summer odyssey. But that’s all changed. Mark Gallagher reports.

Laois, with all six forwards in scoring form and a team spirit bound since their minor days of 1996, scorched past Dublin, the reigning Leinster champions at Croke Park and into a provincial final against Kildare in five weeks' time.

Laois 2-10, Offaly 0-13

LIMERICK have been dealt a cruel blow as an injury leaves Stephen Lucey extremely doubtful for in the lead-up AS the countdown Sunday’s Allianz NFL final against Westmeath in Croke Park (1.30 pm).

Laois 1-14 Armagh 1-11

THE X factor that Mick O’Dwyer has instilled into Laois football is confidence, according to their midfield maestro Pauric Clancy, who picked up the Vodafone player of the month award for March in Dublin yesterday.

Tipperary star forward Eoin Kelly has been awarded the Vodafone Player of the Month award for March.

Laois 1-14 Kildare 1-9

Offaly 0-13, Laois 2-6