ARMAGH’s Stevie McDonnell is likely to be handed the Irish captaincy today for the forthcoming International Rules series against Australia.

THE KERRY management’s desire to employ Marc Ó Sé’s footballing talents in the half-back line gets another trial tomorrow in Tralee, with the youngest of the Gaeltacht brothers selected at right half-back for the clash with Mayo.

FORMER All-Ireland winning defender Mike McCarthy is set end his inter-county retirement and rejoin the Kerry squad.

The 2008 GAA Football All-Stars, sponsored by Vodafone, will have 32 players drawn from 11 counties making the trip next Wednesday to San Francisco.

Following a meeting of the Central Competitions Control Committee this morning, the GAA have confirmed that Wexford will be relegated to Division 2 of the Allianz NHL.

Limerick 3-23 Laois 2-11

LIMERICK 1-10 LOUTH 0-9

I WONDER how long John Kenneally was waiting for Munster to lose at Thomond Park so he could submit his anti-Limerick tirade (‘Munster rugby is at home in Cork — not Limerick’ (Irish Examiner letters, January 24).

LEINSTER MFC champions Laois will be wary ahead of their All-Ireland quarter final with beaten Munster finalists Kerry at Pairc na nGael, Limerick this afternoon (2.30pm).

TIPPERARY coach Ken Hogan wore the look of a satisfied man in the corridors of Páirc na nGael yesterday.

THERE have been contrasting fortunes for the ladies of Cork and Galway ahead of their rearranged Suzuki NFL Division One Final this afternoon. (Páirc na nGael, Limerick, 2pm)*.

PAUL KERRIGAN is fit for Cork’s Munster U21 FC final against Limerick at Páirc na nGael tomorrow (7pm).

CORK’S disappointment at losing their Munster SHC title will be shortlived.

EVEN the travel arrangements of the most powerful man in the world will not infringe on the timing of the Guinness All-Ireland SHC qualifiers.

FOR reasons best known to themselves, many (even within the county) are writing off Limerick, in the Munster SHC semi-final against holders Cork at Páirc na nGael on Sunday.

FORMER All-Star, Eoin Kelly, has again been omitted from the Waterford senior hurling panel for Sunday’s crunch Allianz NHL Division 1A tie against Galway at Walsh Park (2pm).

GAA president-elect Sean Kelly is to recommend that inter-county footballers and hurlers be allowed to elect their own national representatives to Croke Park at the weekend’s congress in Belfast.

Cork 4-12