THE old parliament hadn't seen so much activity since Theobald Wolfe Tone and Edmund Burke were pondering the French Revolution.

Galway 0-15 Dublin 0-7

IT will only be when this year ends for Paul Casey, that he will be able to sit back and absorb all he has achieved.

DIARMUID O’SULLIVAN, who recently announced he was quitting football to concentrate on hurling, will miss Cork’s Allianz NHL clash with Wexford at Wexford Park on Sunday because of a groin injury.

SEAMUS MOYNIHAN can expect to find out shortly where he is likely to line out with Kerry in the championship.

WARNINGS of a deteriorating situation in regard to the coaching of games at primary and second-level in the schools in Cork were the feature of debate at yesterday’s Cork GAA convention at Páirc Uí Chaiomh.

THE GPA are to enter negotiations with GAA president-elect Sean Kelly with regard to player recognition at official level during his three-year term in office.

WHAT a difference a year makes. Tomorrow afternoon, Alan Brogan will line out for Dublin, not exactly a senior member of the team, but certainly as a young man with an inordinate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders.

EACH man talks a good game. Each have served their managerial dues in club football, where they both led their respective teams to an All-Ireland title.

EVERYONE in Dublin these days seems to have an opinion on Tommy Lyons' side.

Dublin 0-12 Tyrone 0-7

WHATEVER was expected of the Dublin champions in yesterday’s AIB Leinster Club football championship Carlow, a six points defeat at the hands of Portlaoise would hardly have been anticipated.

WHILE they are already favourites for Leinster, with some tipping them for even greater glory, Laois manager Mick O’Dwyer is keeping a lid on the hype that is threatening to envelop his vibrant team again this summer.

CORK CITY manager Pat Dolan yesterday provided an insight into one of the less glamorous aspects of the job as he recalled the moment new signing Stephen O’Flynn broke his leg.

It's the hottest ticket in town as stage set for a weekend feast of football. Mark Gallagher looks at the mouth-watering prospect of the four All-Ireland football quarter-finals

PAUL CAFFREY was hoping "to put a smile" on the face of Tommy Lyons, who watched yesterday's drawn All-Ireland quarter-final from his hospital room in the Blackrock Clinic after having been admitted on Saturday evening with stomach pains.

THE joke doing the rounds in Burlington House as Joe Kernan and Tommy Lyons launched the 2003 Allianz National Football League was that three managers were meeting the media in Dublin yesterday but only one was earning €400,000 a year.