Kerry claim vital win
Kerry eased their NFL relegation worries with a 0-11 to 0-7 win over Cork.
Kerry eased their NFL relegation worries with a 0-11 to 0-7 win over Cork.
Eugene McGee, Chairman of the Football Review Committee, (FRC), has stated that enough votes can be won at Annual Congress this weekend in Derry to pass the proposals that will radically change Gaelic football.
Down manager James McCartan accepts that his team have a mountain to climb if they are to retain their place Division One in the Allianz Football League for next year.
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has made three changes from the Tyrone starting 15 that so impressively defeated Dublin in Croke Park last weekend, for this Sunday's trip to Newbridge to take on Kieran McGeeney's Kildare.
To lose a game at home in the Allianz Football League can spike hopes of promotion or survival but to suffer back-to-back reversals on your own soil can prove tantamount to disaster.
Former Derry All-Ireland winner Tony Scullion, who has just been confirmed as a member of manager Paul Earley's backroom team for this year's International Rules series, firmly believes that Ireland can repeat their 2011 triumph over Australia.
Another member of Tyrone's first Sam Maguire Cup winning team has announced his retirement from Inter County football. Keeper John Devine informed Mickey Harte of his decision last night, the Tyrone manager a fellow Errigal Ciaran clubman.
Patrick McBrearty fired Donegal into an Ulster U21 semi-final, his seven points helping Maxi Curran's charges to a surprise win over Tyrone in Omagh.
Two first half goals from Aaron Devlin in a three-minute spell sealed an Oak Leaf win over Antrim in last night's Ulster U21 Football Championship quarter-final at Casement Park.
A power-packed first half performance highlighted by superb finishing ultimately proved Down's passport into the Ulster U21 football championship semi-finals when they proved superior to Armagh at the Athletic Grounds last night.
Last year, Derry stumbled into the Championship searching and scratching around for form as they barely survived their Division Two league campaign.
As the Tyrone players filed out of Healy Park the week before, there were many questions left hanging in the air. The comprehensive ease of victory had caught everyone by surprise.
Armagh manager Paul Grimley is not prone to making a drama out of a crisis but he could be excused for believing that the gods are conspiring against him as he strives to keep his side in Division Two of the Allianz Football League.
St Patrick's College, Maghera take on St Paul's, Bessbrook in the MacRory Cup final at Armagh's Athletic Grounds
Derry kept up their promotion chase with a comfortable victory over a disappointing Longford side at Celtic Park on Saturday evening.
Two former county stars who have amassed considerable honours during illustrious playing careers will today provide an extra incentive for players from St Paul’s HS Bessbrook and St Patrick’s College Maghera to take their careers to the next level when they meet in the Danske Bank MacRory Cup final.
Armagh may not quite be engulfed in the tentacles of relegation, but this setback at home inflicted by one of their own has certainly dimmed the prospect of an extension of their tenure in Division Two.
Antrim's hurlers remain rooted to the bottom of Division 1B after a 2-21 to 1-12 defeat to Wexford on Saturday.
Fermanagh manager Peter Canavan has not had his sorrows to seek in terms of injury concerns lately, but his team provided him with the best possible antidote to his anxiety by powering to a crucial Allianz Football League Division Three win over Cavan
Division One's relegation battle will go down to the wire after Kerry picked up their first points of the campaign at the expense of a disappointing Down side.
It hasn't always been a bed of roses
Tony Pulis' seven-year reign as Stoke manager has come to an end after he and the club agreed to part company by mutual consent.
Alex Corbisiero is desperate to put an injury-ravaged season behind him and reassert his position as England's first-choice loosehead prop in the upcoming fixtures against the Barbarians and Argentina.
British and Irish Lions flanker Sean O'Brien could yet play for Leinster in Saturday's RaboDirect PRO12 final after making rapid progress in his recovery from a knee injury.
West Ham's chances of signing Liverpool striker Andy Carroll on a permanent deal appear to now rest solely with the player after the two clubs reached agreement on a transfer fee.