Offaly 2-20 Antrim 1-15

It’s still difficult to wrap your head around the tumultuous goings on in Offaly last week, following their defeat to Wicklow in the Leinster football championship.

Deposed Offaly senior football manager Stephen Wallace has contradicted a number of claims made by county chairman Tommy Byrne.

The Offaly County Board management committee last night voted to remove Stephen Wallace as manager of the senior footballers.

Offaly GAA chiefs have commenced a review of their senior football management following Sunday’s Leinster SFC defeat to Wicklow.

Pressure continues to mount on Offaly football manager Stephen Wallace following their Leinster SFC defeat to Wicklow on Sunday.

It is understood that there is serious unrest in the Faithful camp following yesterday's 1-20 to 1-15 Leinster Championship defeat to Wicklow.

Offaly goalkeeping coach Brendan Kealy is unsure if manager Stephen Wallace will be on the sideline for Sunday’s Leinster SFC preliminary round game against Wicklow in Portlaoise.

Diarmuid Connolly made a return to competitive action when coming on as a second-half substitute for St Vincent’s in their Dublin Adult Hurling League Division 1 encounter against Craobh Chiaráin at Páirc Naomh Uinsionn last night.

Wicklow manager John Evans is holding out hope he may be asked to be part of a Kerry senior management team in the future.

Offaly senior football boss Stephen Wallace won’t be on the sideline for the county’s championship opener unless a ban proposed by the Kerry CCC is overturned on appeal.

Wicklow manager John Evans says the “appalling” decision to cancel their Division 4 game against Limerick does nothing for the promotion of Gaelic football in the county.

Offaly football manager Stephen Wallace has hit out at the negativity of recently retired inter-county players, accusing them of “throwing stones” at former teammates.

Derry manager Damian McErlain was a relieved man after his team finally got their Division 3 campaign up-and-running with a five-point victory over Offaly in Celtic Park yesterday.

With games falling victim to the inclement weather at the weekend, it further highlighted and exacerbated the craziness of this early season fixtures pile-up during a period most likely to be negatively affected by mother nature, writes Mike Quirke.

The Offaly banter is nothing new to Brendan Kealy — he’s been hearing it for years at this stage.

12.47am on a Tuesday night, a call goes in to new Offaly manager Stephen Wallace. He answers on the first ring. The drive from Offaly to North Kerry requires a few calls to pass the 400km round-trip. Here’s what came up along the way…

Meath 1-19

Dublin 1-13 Offaly 0-16: Teenager Cian Johnson came of age at Parnell Park with a thrilling display and the equaliser to deny Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup holders Dublin.

Regardless of the significant changes to next year's championships, last night’s 2018 football draw and release of the provincial hurling schedule was hardly heart-stopping stuff.

Former Cork coach and Laois footballer Billy Sheehan is being lined up as part of Offaly manager Stephen Wallace’s backroom team.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has tipped his former Kerry selector Diarmuid Murphy for a future in management after the Dingle man stepped down from his role yesterday.

Kenmare District 1-16 St Brendan’s Board 1-10: Kenmare District eventually came good in this lacklustre Garvey’s Supervalu Kerry SFC clash with St Brendan’s at a sun-splashed Austin Stack Park.

Kerry 2-18 Mayo 0-10: A couple of years ago, Stephen Wallace and Kerry county chairman, Patrick O’Sullivan, hatched a plan to address the lack of opportunities for talented young players to wear the county jersey.

Thomas Hickey fired 2-4 at Croke Park to secure victory in an All-Ireland junior football final at the second attempt for himself and Kerry.

Stephen Wallace holds only fond memories of Croke Park.

Kerry 3-13 Wexford 2-9: The full-time score gave a somewhat misleading representation as Kerry performed a late escape act in Dungarvan on Saturday afternoon to remain on course for a 16th All-Ireland junior title.

Nobody saw this coming, holders Kerry totally overwhelming Cork in the second half at Páirc Uí Rinn last evening to win back-to-back Munster junior football titles for the first time since 2002-’03, and record the Kingdom’s first championship win at the venue since their minor success seven years ago.

Munster JFC semi-final

Kerry County Board chairman Patrick O’Sullivan believes that this year’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay showed that big championship games can be held outside Croke Park.

WHAT would Kerry have done if Eamonn Fitzmaurice had said No?

Two friends, divided by their views on Scottish independence, travel the length of Britain. But will their friendship survive the trip?

ALL-IRELAND JFC FINAL:

The student who earned nine A1s in his Leaving Certificate says it feels a "bit surreal" to have achieved the highest marks in the country.

Kerry 2-21 Sligo 0-10

Doctors need to get 600 points in their Leaving Certificate so they can write letters about patients that say nothing and mean nothing, a circuit court judge has said.

The Katie Taylor machine rolls on to Waterford tonight after a unanimous victory over American Liz Leddy at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork last night.

What I do: I am a soprano and a traditional Irish musician.

KILCUMMIN just about survived one of the most dramatic comebacks witnessed in the Kerry SFC over the last few years when they edged out Ardfert in a second round thriller last night.

CORK airport has become an unlikely refuge for desperate travellers attempting to enter the country as passengers attempting to come to Ireland are faced with Dublin and Belfast cancellation nightmares.

FORMER Kerry star forward Mike Frank Russell scored 1-4 as Laune Rangers booked their place in the third round of the AIB Kerry SFC at the expense of Spa.

Ardfert (Kerry) 4-7 Confey (Kildare) 1-9