Dublin starlet Ciaran Kilkenny has decided against pursuing a career in Australian Rules football, having returned home during the Christmas period.

Galway’s longest serving player Padraic Joyce has decided to retire after 15 years of top-flight football.

Go back to the flats yis shower of knackers.

Ciaran Kilkenny, one of Dublin GAA's best young talents, has agreed to switch codes and join Australian Rules football club Hawthorn.

While tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final between Donegal and Kerry will undoubtedly provide a fascinating clash of styles, Jim McGuinness knows neither side will have left much to chance in terms of preparation.

Allow Colm Parkinson, if you will, a told-you-so.

Welcome.

Cavan captain Padraic O’Reilly insists the players never voted to get rid of Val Andrews.

New Cavan senior boss Terry Hyland wasted no time in making changes to his senior panel, releasing six players last week and calling up six more.

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

Cavan will appoint a successor to Val Andrews from within the county.

Cavan will appoint a successor to Val Andrews from within the county.

Dubliner Val Andrews has resigned as manager of the Cavan senior footballers with immediate effect.

Cavan’s football squad has contacted county chairman Tom Reilly to outline a number of grievances with manager Val Andrews.

At an Armagh training session back in the day, joint-manager Brian McAlinden and Kieran McGeeney ended up glaring at each other.

Former Cavan captain, Seanie Johnston insists he is doing all in his powers in an attempt to re-ignite his inter-county career with Kildare.

Cavan Gaels have given their blessing to Seanie Johnston’ proposed transfer to Kildare club St Kevin’s, and by extension a potential career with the Lilywhites, after signing the star forward’s transfer form.

SEANIE JOHNSTON’S proposed move to Kildare edged a step closer with the former Breffni skipper meeting with officials of the St Kevin’s club in Staplestown this week.

Deadlock: Dublin v Meath 1991

WE were sitting in a café on the Ormeau Road, talking football, when Declan Bogue told me that he was writing a book.

BEYOND the sound and fury surrounding Kevin Cassidy’s expulsion from the Donegal senior football panel, the calls for mediation, managers forbidding players to attend social events and all the rest of it, there’s a book.

THEY’VE been getting a little bit hot and bothered over a book up in Donegal, if you haven’t heard.

CAVAN’S think-tank cleared the decks at the back but it was Longford who held all the aces in this All-Ireland SFC qualifier first round tie at Kingspan/Breffni Park.

ANOTHER miserable afternoon and another damp squib of a game involving Donegal but the fact is that Jim McGuinness’ side have now ploughed through two opponents on the way to an Ulster semi-final date with Tyrone.

IT seems unlikely but it could be argued that Cavan’s momentous Ulster U21 championship win in April was first formulated on the rock-hardplaying fields and in the bohemian bars of the west coast of America last summer.

The Cavan team to face Donegal in Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final at Kingspan Breffni Park (throw-in 3.30pm) has a fresh look to it.

DUBLIN begin the defence of their Bord Gáis Energy Leinster U21HC crown when they travel to Dr Cullen Park tonight to face Carlow in the quarter-final stage at 7.30pm.

Cavan managers Val Andrews and Terry Hyland are sweating on the fitness of key players Ronan Flanagan and Padraic O'Reilly ahead of their Ulster SFC quarter-final against Donegal.

Cavan footballer Seanie Johnston has welcomed the inclusion of 10 of the U-21 squad in the Breffni County's senior set-up for this summer's Championship campaign.

IT has taken longer than he hoped, but Maurice Horan finally achieved a competitive victory as Limerick football manager at the Gaelic Grounds yesterday.

Division Three

THE NEW 3G Astroturf pitch at Kingspan Breffni Park alleviated some of the congestion in the Dr McKenna Cup over the weekend after a spate of postponements in earlier weeks left the fixtures’ department of the Ulster Council scratching their heads.

IT’S safe to assume that the Cavan County Board will be cursing those frozen water pipes in Clones this week.

GAA President Christy Cooney has issued a stern warning that Cavan will be punished in full accordance with regulations if Croke Park can prove they have broken the winter training ban.

The GAA will send a letter to the Cavan County Board this week demanding an explanation for Sunday night’s county training game at Breffni Park.

THE GAA will send a letter to the Cavan County Board this week demanding an explanation for Sunday night’s county training game at Breffni Park.

The Cavan senior footballers were last night the first team found guilty of breaking the GAA's winter training ban after they were spotted holding a practice game on the 3G pitch at Kingspan Breffni Park.

CAVAN’S footballers were last night discovered as the first inter-county side to have broken the winter training ban after they arranged a practice game under lights at their 3G pitch at Breffni Park.

DURING a not entirely successful shortcut out of Dublin on Friday afternoon, I found myself driving through Ballymun.

The winner of the preliminary round encounter between Donegal and Antrim will face Cavan in the quarter-finals of the 2011 Ulster Senior Football Championship, it has been announced.

FORMER Fermanagh boss Dom Corrigan is emerging as the front runner to take over as Erne boss amid growing support in the county.

Val Andrews and Terry Hyland were ratified last night as the Cavan senior football management team for a three-year term.

A joint senior football management team of Val Andrews and Terry Hyland is likely to be ratified by the Cavan County Board tomorrow night.