The Kilmacud Crokes-Craobh Chiaráin Dublin league game threw in yesterday morning at 10.30am.

Eoin Cadogan was back training with Cork last night - but with a hurley and sliotar, not a football - confirming his decision to switch codes and commit to the Cork hurlers in 2018.

So, sports fans are outraged that Jermaine Defoe is missing from the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist? (According to click king Mr Google Analytics). Wait til they see this evening what the chainsaw gang in Montrose have done to the array of Ireland’s Greatest Sporting Moments in the 2000s, writes Tony Leen.

So prodigious was Colm Cooper’s talent as a teenager that he usurped more established players, writes Kieran Shannon.

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Cork senior hurling selector Pat Hartnett says league champions Clare, who roll into Páirc Uí Rinn tonight for the NHL Division 1A opener against the home side, represent “a tall order” for a youthful Rebel team.

When the Cork- Dublin hurling/football double-header was first played in Croke Park in 2014, Cork edged the hurling match by one point. I met Jimmy Barry-Murphy upstairs afterwards and he was delighted.

Kieran McGeeney believes the public put too much pressure on young players to make an instant impact at senior inter-county level.

As Conor Mortimer said earlier this week, the needle between Dublin and Mayo started back in 2006 with Warm-up-gate.

Jason Ryan last night stepped down as Kildare manager after two years in charge. Ryan had previously been coach and selector under Kieran McGeeney in 2013.

Colm O’Neill will say goals have never come easy to him but then why does scoring them seem more natural to him than most others? 

Connacht semi-final: Roscommon v Sligo, Kiltoom, 7.30pm.

I met Jimmy Barry-Murphy underneath the stand last month in Clonmel, says Anthony Daly.

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Tyrone great Conor Gormley believes the time is right to end his inter-county career.

Enda McNulty has claimed the Kerry and Tyrone teams of the noughties were "weaker teams" than the Armagh side he played for and that it is a "disgrace" that the Orchard county won only one All-Ireland when they were "in a position to win nine".

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Dublin 3-14 Mayo 2-17

All-Ireland winner Kieran McGeeney met his Kerry match yesterday in stunning bride Maura O’Rahilly.

The high esteem in which Cork senior football captain Graham Canty is held can been seen by the glowing tributes that have been paid to him since today's announcement of his inter-county retirement.

Stephen Cluxton is one of the most recognisable footballers in Ireland but also the most private

Emmet Bolton has hit out at the club delegates who voted against keeping Kieran McGeeney on as Kildare senior manager, alleging that a good number of them have not even seen the panel train before.

Paul Grimley has been re-appointed for a second year in charge of the Armagh senior footballers, while one of the county's greatest forwards, Steven McDonnell, was last night ratified as their new Under-21 football manager.

Kerry are faced a number of niggling injury concerns in the build-up to their All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin.

Cork senior hurling selector Kieran Kingston says he and the management team are looking for an improvement from their charges in Sunday’s clash with Galway.

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Galway management have enforced a strict ban on players using social media in the build-up to Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Will Galway bate Mayo?

The Armagh County Board have released a statement to announce that Paddy O'Rourke has stepped down as manager of the county's senior footballers.

Paddy O'Rourke has relinquished his role as Armagh senior football manager following today's disappointing All-Ireland SFC first round qualifier defeat to Roscommon.

There are three Championship newcomers in the Armagh team to face Tyrone in Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final at the Athletic Grounds (throw-in 4pm).

Ronan Clarke is hoping to make his first Ulster SFC appearance since 2009 this summer, having resumed training with the Armagh footballers.

Armagh goalkeeper Paul Hearty had decided to call time on his inter-county football career, becoming the second member of the county's 2002 All-Ireland title-winning squad to retire in the past week.

Steven McDonnell admits he derives a lot of pleasure from the amount of well-wishers following his decision to retire from inter-county football.

Armagh sharpshooter Steven McDonnell used his Twitter page to announce his decision to retire from senior inter-county football tonight.

Derry captain, Paddy Bradley has been forced to defend his commitment to the county team on Twitter.

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THE benefits of sheer bloody-minded hard work were graphically illustrated to me last November when I tried to ride a bike over Torr Head.

ARMAGH’S inspirational double act of Steven McDonnell and Ronan Clarke are poised to finally team up again for the 2012 Championship.

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THE GAA club with which murdered James Hughes won three All-Ireland medals has expressed its shock at his death.

Armagh club Crossmaglen Rangers have released a statement paying tribute to one of their players James Hughes, who was tragically killed in a shotgun attack in Dundalk yesterday.