An hour after the game, and anybody from Ulster who has a passion for hurling is still swamping Ballyhale Shamrocks manager Henry Shefflin, queuing for selfies, presenting hurls and jerseys for his signature.

Katie Taylor has been named the Female Fighter of the Year for 2019 by the Boxing Writers Association of America.

Eoin Lowry was Laois' late goal scoring hero as John Sugure's side edged a tight encounter against Derry to ensure they are in the hat for Monday's All Ireland Qualifying Series third round draw.

Last year's All-Ireland finalists Tyrone came through a draining battle when they just couldn't shake off a game Derry challenge in the Ulster Championship preliminary round in Omagh.

Mickey Harte says he’s hoping the great sleeping giant of Ulster football doesn’t reawaken this weekend.

A UCC or a Kerry double, that is the question as Shane Conway and Seán O’Shea have been honoured as the best Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup players.

For a while there on Saturday, it was as if Leitrim had misunderstood the instruction to put the clock forward and had instead wound it all the way back to 1994, when they won the Connacht title.

Shane McGuigan helped fire Derry to their first Allianz Football League Division 4 title, at Croke Park this afternoon.

Down are top of Division 3 of the Allianz Football League heading into the final round of group games, while Derry continued their unbeaten run in Division 4 this afternoon.

Down have moved top of Division 3 of the Allianz Football League, while Derry guaranteed promotion from Division 4, as they continued maintained their winning ways, with an away victory over Limerick.

IT Tralee manager Liam Brosnan accused the referee of 'targeting' their Kerry county players as the college exited the Sigerson Cup with 12 men and lost Kerry defender Gavin Crowley to injury.

Derry 2-14 Kildare 2-22

Kildare claimed their first win in 12 months, with a richly deserved eight-point qualifier win over Derry.

It’s said if you’re once bitten you’ll be twice shy, so Declan Bonner has reason to be tentative as Donegal head to nearby Celtic Park in Derry well-tipped to win Sunday’s Ulster SFC quarter-final.

Nemo Rangers (Cork) 2-19 Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-14 (After extra-time): Snapshots from an encounter for the ages in Portlaoise: 24 minutes gone, Nemo desperately seeking their second wind after a dismal start and Tomas Ó Sé, 40 this summer, in possession down on the left wing. 

Luke Connolly's 2-5 haul in Portlaoise fired club kingpins Nemo Rangers through to yet another AIB All-Ireland club football final.

It says a lot about the maturity of Slaughtneil’s winter marvels when even one of their more recent additions talks like he’s got an old head on young shoulders.

Carl Frampton made a winning return to the ring with a far from convincing non-title fight victory over Mexican Horacio Garcia at the SSE Arena in Belfast.

Battle-hardened by four long years on the road, Slaughtneil chiselled out an Ulster Club SFC quarter-final win in the most pressing of circumstances at Celtic Park.

Carl Frampton believes he will headline “one of the biggest boxing bills Irish boxing has ever seen” when he makes his ring return on the same night that Jamie Conlan will challenge for a world title in Belfast.

Carl Frampton admitted he was considering “going his own way” before opting to join Matthew Macklin’s Mack The Knife Global (MTK) stable.

It would seem an exaggeration to suggest time is ticking on Carl Frampton’s ring career, but mileage is certainly on the mind of trainer Shane McGuigan.

Leo Santa Cruz’s shadow hung over the formal launch for Carl Frampton’s ring return yesterday, but it would be wrong to suggest that the Belfast ‘Jackal’ has a one-track mind in terms of his fighting future.

Donegal's dazzling array of underage talent sparkled under the lights in the Athletic Grounds tonight, easing to the county's first EirGrid Ulster U21 football title since 2010 against 14-man Derry.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-9 Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-7: “For 25 years, we’ve tried to come back up those steps,” gushed Dr Crokes captain Johnny Buckley from the Hogan Stand podium. “We’ve had a lot of disappointments but I’m here to say that the Andy Merrigan Cup is coming back to Killarney.”

A brazenly mean Dr Crokes effort ensured the Andy Merrigan Cup will return to Killarney for the first time in 25 years.

Katie Taylor is back in the gym today ahead of three big fight dates in the next three months and a possible world-title challenge in September.

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final

Sunday dawns slow in Las Vegas. As Carl Frampton hauled himself out of bed in his private loft at the MGM Grand yesterday, the morning after the night before would have brought only light relief.

Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-12 Kilcoo (Down) 0-9: They’ve had many great days in the last few years, but Slaughtneil had their sweetest moment yet in the Athletic Grounds yesterday, shrugging off the pressure to complete an unprecedented Ulster treble.

Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-11 Killyclogher (Tyrone) 0-8: Slaughtneil combined patience and composure with power and pace as they swept into another Ulster final.

The management team behind Scottish boxer Mike Towell, who died on Friday following a televised bout, has said it was not aware of any headache complaints by the fighter before the match.

The best I’ve ever felt. Carl Frampton’s first five words after logging in as a featherweight for the first time in his professional life. Amazing what a difference four pounds can make.

St Brendan’s, Killarney 2-13 St Patrick’s College, Maghera 2-6

St Pat’s Maghera 2-14 Summerhill, Sligo 3-10: St. Pat’s Maghera are through to the Hogan Cup final after staging a late comeback to edge past a devastated Summerhill College Sligo team at Brewster Park in Enniskillen yesterday afternoon.

Barry McGuigan believes Saturday’s world-title unification clash is the most important fight of Carl Frampton’s career as the Belfast native prepares to finally meet long-time rival Scott Quigg. 

Scotstown (Monaghan) 1-15 Slaughtneil (Derry) 0-15 (Ulster Club SFC): It has been a very difficult week for Derry kingpins Slaughtneil.