Glen Rovers 0-13 Carrigtwohill 0-12 (Cork SHC): Even Richie Kelleher accepted this was daylight robbery.

Rita de Brún is impressed by the four star Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, which has been lovingly refurbished recently.

Fresher Football League: UCC 1-20 Maynooth University 0-11: A third quarter scoring flurry sealed victory for UCC’s Freshers at Carriganore yesterday and a place in the Division 1 League final.

O’Byrne Cup

Longford chairman Brendan Gilmore has called on the Leinster Council to force Dublin to travel for their provincial championship opener in 2015.

Chris Evans has revealed he was all fired up to do a 20th anniversary special of his hit 90s chat show TFI Friday – until he realised he was getting short changed.

This weekend sees the full return of the Great British football season. It will bring with it all the things we love to hate about professional football – crap managers, biased refs, and daft mascots.

Kerry 2-15 Kildare 1-08

Dublin 3-16 Kildare 1-12

All fixtures are tomorrow unless stated

Reigning Kildare champions Sarsfields were pushed all the way by last year’s IFC champions Monasterevan in Newbridge but eventually booked their place in the quarter-final by virtue of a 3-16 to 0-9 win.

Laois senior football manager Justin McNulty stepped down from his role last night.

Kildare 1-13 Carlow IT 0-7

Wicklow 1-17 Waterford 0-15, (after extra-time)

Limerick 2-12 Waterford 0-7

Courtmacsherry Angling Centrerecently hosted Bradford Sea Angling Club members for a three-day sea angling trip at the popular West Cork sea angling venue.

Conor Phelan has been brought into the Waterford team for tomorrow's All-Ireland SFC third round qualifier clash with Limerick.

EMMETT BOLTON returns to the Kildare side for tomorrow’s All-Ireland qualifier against neighbours Meath in Páirc Tailteann in Navan.

LAOIS have been one of the surprise packages of this year’s league campaign. Since 2004, they’ve struggled to live up to the mantle heir apparent to the Leinster thrown but that’s one of the reasons manager Justin McNulty agreed to become their manager.

LAOIS forward Ross Munnelly has welcomed the return of his 2003 Leinster SFC winning team-mates Colm Parkinson and Gary Kavanagh into the panel and claimed manager Justin McNulty has assembled a panel reflecting the best the county has to offer.

NEW Laois boss Justin McNulty has revealed how he laughs at crass generalisations that his inherited players are too small and lack discipline.

Former Armagh All-Ireland winner Justin McNulty has been officially named as the new manager of the Laois senior footballers.

JUSTIN McNULTY is expected to be ratified as Laois senior football manager tonight.

Justin McNulty is expected to be ratified as the new Laois senior football manager on Monday night.

PAT ROE has described the delay in appointing a Laois senior football manager as ‘bizarre’.

THE fourth round of the Evening Echo Cork SFC begins tonight with the all west Cork meeting of Dohenys and Carbery Rangers in Rossmore at 7.30pm.

WICKLOW officials have revealed they are still in the dark as to Mick O’Dwyer’s intentions for the 2011 season despite reports that he may be in line for a sensational return to Laois.

Mick O'Dwyer has been nominated for the role of Laois senior football manager, a position he took on between 2003 and 2006, despite not yet confirming that he is finished with Wicklow.

CAVAN are on the lookout for a new senior football manager after Tommy Carr last night decided to bring the curtain down on his two-year reign in charge.

Laois boss Sean Dempsey has become the latest casualty in senior inter-county football management, following his failure to be reappointed for a third year.

Tipperary 0-13 Laois 0-12

Tipperary manager John Evans and his Laois counterpart Sean Dempsey have named their sides for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier at Semple Stadium (throw-in 3.30pm).

RYAN McMENAMIN and Davy Harte have both been omitted from the Tyrone team for Saturday’s Ulster SFC semi-final against Down due to hamstring and calf injuries respectively.

Laois manager Sean Dempsey has stuck with the same team which drew with Meath last weekend, for Saturday's Leinster SFC quarter-final replay at O'Connor Park in Tullamore (throw-in 7pm).

EVEN though he expressed disappointment his team hadn’t won, Seán Dempsey’s jovial disposition betrayed a sense of relief at still being involved in the Leinster championship.

FOR long periods Meath looked like they would secure a place in the last four of the Leinster senior football championship quite comfortably, but as manager Eamonn O’Brien admitted afterwards, his side was relieved to have a second chance.

Laois showed tremendous character to score three points in the final four minutes of extra time in their Leinster SFC quarter-final with Meath at Croke Park.

Leinster SFC Quarter-Final

Revelations of the precarious1 state of Waterford finances has sent shockwaves through the GAA. So how are county boards battling the recession? Brendan O’Brien looked at the model used by tomorrow’s Leinster’s quarter-finalists, Laois.

THEY may have been impossible to separate last Sunday, but Cork and Kerry have enjoyed very different fortunes this week with Jack O’Connor forced to delay naming his starting 15 until hours before Sunday’s game.

LAOIS manager Sean Dempsey is adamant the off-field problems which contributed to the county’s footballers’ disastrous summer campaign in 2009 are a thing of the past.

MIKE McCARTHY made his first start for Kerry this season in a behind-closed-doors challenge game against Laois in Killarney yesterday.

LAOIS senior football manager Sean Dempsey has slammed claims his squad’s warm weather training camp in the Algarve is a ‘holiday’ for the players.

Down 2-11 Laois 1-13, Pairc Esler