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.

LEINSTER SHC (First Round): Meath v Offaly (tomorrow, Portlaoise, 3pm)

OFFALY SFC FINAL:

THERE may still be only 12 days of Christmas, but it still seems to start earlier with each passing year. Unfortunately for Rhode, they took that all too literally yesterday by gift-wrapping a Leinster Club SFC title for Kilmacud that was theirs for the taking.

Éire Óg (Carlow) 0-04 Rhode (Offaly) 3-09

Kilmacud Crokes 1-9 Rhode 2-6

Offaly take on Louth today in the opening clash of the 2005 Leinster football championship and even though the Faithful men are huge favourites to advance, the Wee County believe the form book will have no say in today's encounter at Pairc Tailteann, Navan.

Offaly make three changes to the side that lost to Dublin in the last round of the league for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final clash against Louth in Navan.

Offaly 2-11 Mayo 2-12

Offaly 2-11 Westmeath 0-14

Tyrone got their Allianz NFL Division 1A campaign off to a winning start in Ballybofey today while Offaly won the midlands battle with Westmeath.

Offaly 1-10 Down 1-8

Offaly 1-10 Down 1-8

IT’S a sign of the times when 24-year-old Karol Slattery is described as one of the senior members on the Offaly football team.

Offaly 1-15 Kildare 1-8

Offaly 1-16 Kildare 1-08

Young star Thomas Deehan has been handed his senior debut by Offaly football boss Gerry Fahey ahead of Sunday's O'Byrne Cup clash with Wexford.

LUKE Dempsey has been installed as favourite to succeed Paul O’Kelly as Offaly football boss, with the former Westmeath manager admitting he is interested in the job.

Offaly 4-15, London 0-10

OF all the familiar faces that Offaly will field against Laois on Sunday, the most familiar will be pacing around at corner forward.

Offaly have injury worries surrounding four players ahead of Sunday's Leinster SFC derby clash with Laois at O'Moore Park.

Roy Malone will miss Offaly’s Bank of Ireland All-Ireland Football Qualifier against Limerick on Saturday after picking up a suspension.

Kildare face the winners of tomorrow's Dublin/Meath clash in the Leinster Final following a marathon replay that went into extra-time against Offaly at Nowlan Park.

Offaly 0-13, Laois 2-6

The outcome of the first of the Leinster football semi-finals in Croke Park yesterday had as much to do with Dublin achieving their victory as Offaly allowed a chance of advancing to slip through their fingers.