It was a busy day of action in the provincial Football Championships in both Munster and Ulster, while new SFC champions were crowned in Donegal, Tipperary and Waterford.

Down brought their shooting boots to Clones as they registered a fine 4-12 to 0-11 victory over Monaghan in the Reigning Power NI Dr. McKenna Cup.

TYRONE’S dazzling form this season was ultimately rewarded with silverware in yesterday’s ESB All-Ireland MFC final in Croke Park. However, they had to withstand a ferocious and dramatic late Cork revival before surviving.

Tyrone 1-13 Cork 1-12

KERRY boss Pat O’Driscoll wasn’t in the mood to offer excuses after this footballing lesson at GAA headquarters. Instead he heaped the praise on Tyrone.

Armagh 2-8 Tyrone 1-9

DETECTIVES were last night confident of tracking down a cold-blooded killer who sat in a pub for at least 45 minutes looking at his victim prior to shooting him dead.

UP to 60 people who were in a pub when father-of-nine Thomas Canavan was gunned down, know his murderer, his mother claimed last night.

GARDAÍ have set up a specialist unit to tackle the spate of gangland killings in Dublin.

A 23-YEAR-OLD man shot dead in a Dublin pub on Wednesday night is thought to have received a warning around a week ago from drug dealers he may have owed money to.

Gardaí at Inchicore in Dublin are continuing to question two men in connection with the murder of Thomas Canavan which took place over the August bank holiday weekend.

A 37-year-old man was arrested this morning in connection with the murder of Thomas Canavan at Inchicore in Dublin on August 4.

A FATHER of nine, singled out and shot dead as he played a game of pool in a pub, may have been killed after he was involved in a fist fight with a member of a criminal gang.