LIMERICK are taking no chances ahead of their Bank of Ireland, Munster SFC semi-final clash with next-door neighbours Clare at Cusack Park, Ennis on Sunday next.

Dublin 3-9, Derry 1-9

SELECTOR Dave Billings has rejected the notion that Dublin are simply the same old team underachieving with the same old faces as they look to continue their progress through the qualifiers in Leitrim tomorrow.

Mark Gallagher wipes a tear from his eye as he recalls 365 sporting days of highs and lows, winners and losers, some guts and a lot of glory.

DUBLIN defender Paul Curran, who missed the drawn All-Ireland SFC quarter-final meeting with Donegal through injury, is set to return to training later this week.

SUNDAY has been a long time coming for John Gildea. The power-house midfielder has toiled with Donegal for the best part of a decade, yet Sunday will be his first All-Ireland semi-final.

WITHOUT question, Billy Morgan was the happier of the two managers coming off the field in Parnell Park at the end of yesterday's Allianz National Football League tie.

IT’S a little odd that people should be surprised by the presence of traditional heavyweights like Dublin and Derry in the All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals.

LAOIS have confirmed that Mick O’Dwyer is their main target to succeed Colm Browne as the county’s senior football manager.

DR NIALL MOYNA will take temporary charge of the Dublin footballers as the County Board continue their efforts to appoint a successor to Tommy Lyons.

DUBLIN supporters and GAA officials will discover tomorrow morning if Hill 16 is available for Saturday's All-Ireland qualifier in Croke Park.

PADDY CLARKE was in the air, flying to Australia as part of the Irish management for the 2001 International Rules Series, when Brigid’s lost heavily in the Dublin county football final to a Na Fianna side captained by Kieran McGeeney.

IT may have qualified them for a first league final in 59 years, but it was the manner more than the victory against Tyrone which was so pleasing to Wexford’s John Hegarty.