Former Dublin manager Tommy Lyons says Cillian O’Connor will become “another Henry Shefflin” if Mayo start him on Sunday.

Set to be crowed champion apprentice in two weeks, Cork teenager Connor King landed the October Handicap on Ancient Sands in fortuitous circumstances in Naas yesterday.

Ballyporeen (Tipperary) 2-12 De La Salle (Waterford) 4-06 (aet)

Midleton 2-15 Sarsfields 2-13

Meath 2-12 Fermanagh 0-14

Airtricity League Premier Division: Cork City 2 Bohemians 1

Antrim 2-9 Fermanagh 1-12

John Young got the most significant win so far in the Junior A championship when he beat Jerry Gibbons in the last shot of an enthralling contest at Drinagh on Monday.

Laois 1-16 Antrim 0-13

AIRTRICITY PREMIER DIVISION:

Wicklow 0-09 Fermanagh 1-16

It’s 10 years ago now that they all came on stream together, the one B and 4 Cs.

Dancer Michael Flatley’s Castlehyde mansion has disappeared from property websites, having failed to find a buyer after two years on the open market with a quoted guide price of €20m.

The world was a much different place in May 2001, when Stephen Cluxton made his first Championship appearance for Dublin, writes Paul Keane.

Ruby Walsh has declared the weekend’s inaugural Dublin Racing Festival a resounding success.

At this morning's Irish Examiner Breakfast of Champions at the Clayton Hotel Cork City, Examiner Sport columnists Ronan O'Gara, Donal Lenihan, Tommy Lyons and Ruby Walsh are tackling the hot topics in rugby and racing.

TAKE a chance on Positive Event getting off the mark at the 11th attempt in the bookings@dundalkstadium.com Handicap on the all-weather today.

INSPIRED by a 1-7 haul from Jamie Moriarty, Tralee CBS were crowned Kerry Colleges O’Sullivan Cup champions at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney yesterday.

TRALEE CBS opened their Corn Uí Mhuirí campaign with a comprehensive victory over Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne at Annascaul yesterday.

MAYO boss John O’Mahony has dropped full-forward Aidan O’Shea as he hands out four championship debuts and makes five changes in personnel from the NFL Division 1 final loss to Cork, for Saturday’s Connacht SFC quarter-final against Sligo in Markievicz Park.