DUBLIN will call for ticket prices for the All-Ireland series to be frozen at 2004 levels for the next two years.

PLAYER backing for ousted Offaly football manager Paul O’Kelly has grown since he was controversially sacked on Tuesday night.

LIMERICK manager Joe McKenna is standing by the team which drew with Tipperary last Sunday for Saturday's Guinness Munster senior hurling championship first round replay at the Gaelic Grounds.

CIARAN McMANUS is desperate to avoid a repeat of six years ago, when league success for Offaly was soured a few short weeks later by a premature and traumatic Leinster SFC exit.

DUBLIN manager Tommy Lyons offered his resignation to the County Board following their Leinster SFC defeat to Westmeath at Croke Park.

Kerry 2-11 Roscommon 0-4

SENIOR members of the Offaly football team are on a collision course with the county board over the future of manager Paul O’Kelly.

CARLOW GAA chairman Eddie Byrne has laughed off reports that a local business consortium is prepared to invest €1m over five years to improve the county’s football and hurling fortunes, saying the figure is closer to €100,000.

TIPPERARY senior football manager Andy Shortall will get his first taste of competitive action with the Blue and Gold on Sunday when they line out against Clare in the McGrath Cup semi-final in Clonmel (2pm).

BRIAN MULLINS is odds-on favourite to be appointed coach to the Dublin footballers after GAA chiefs in the county laughed off suggestions that they had approached Mick O'Dwyer to replace Tommy Lyons.

TOMMY LYONS couldn’t resist. Dublin had just demolished Donegal and he was in particularly jocular mood. His captain, whose face had adorned the media dart board in the immediate aftermath of the drawn game, had a stormer.

THE Limerick stars at the centre of the dual player controversy may be left to decide on their preferred code for 2004.

Garvan and Clancy? Much like the Laois footballers, you mightn’t have heard much about them before this summer odyssey. But that’s all changed. Mark Gallagher reports.

Roscommon 1-18, Kildare 0-19 (after extra time)

THE Taoiseach yesterday defended his single greatest sartorial crime — the decision to wear those yellow trousers at the G8 summit.