Laois 1-16 Antrim 0-13

Clare produced a rousing finish to beat Kildare in a high-scoring Allianz Football League Division 3 final at Croke Park.

There was a time when the mention of Dublin’s senior footballers in a Kerry pub didn’t compel patrons to drink deep (to paraphrase the Austin Clarke poem). That was when the idea of a Dublin manager extending his record against Kerry to seven wins from eight meetings would have been ridiculed.

Cian O’Sullivan may have been helped off the field after Dublin’s semi-final replay victory over Mayo last Sunday, but Jim Gavin was bullish yesterday about the centre-back’s prospects of facing Kerry in the All-Ireland final.

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

DAVID HENRY was giving Cheshire cats a good run for their money on Saturday evening and it was hard to begrudge the Dublin captain his beaming smile after such a seminal afternoon.

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.

ALLSTAR nominee Chris Lawn makes a dramatic return to the Tyrone team for the first round of the Bank of Ireland Ulster SFC clash with Derry at Clones on Sunday.

DUBLIN defender Stephen Hiney is bidding to overcome a serious eye injury and return to hurling.

RTÉ will screen over 40 live hurling and football championship matches this season.

MICK O’DWYER loves Dublin. Scratch that, Mick O’Dwyer loves beating Dublin. In 1959, he played his first game for Kerry against them in the All-Ireland semi-final.

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.

THE strength in depth of Irish rugby will be put to the test at Thomond Park tonight (7.30) when Michael Bradley’s Ireland A squad go into action against Australia A.

FERNELEY, “the best horse I’ve ever trained,” according to his trainer, Frank Ennis, showed all the right qualities to win the Irish Stallion Farms’ EBF Race at Tipperary last night.

Limerick’s unbeaten run in Division 4 of the Allianz Football League came to an end at Portglenone where the Saffrons turned in a superb second-half performance to run out 12-point winners.

The seamless manner in which Waterford’s new hurling management has clicked with the players augers well for a third league final appearance in five years, according to former Déise defender Brian Flannery.