Dermot Earley returned to training with the Kildare senior footballers on Tuesday night and he was delighted with how he coped after over 18 months on the sidelines.

Monaghan have been boosted by the return of Tommy Freeman to the senior football panel for 2012.

A Leinster side brimming with Dublin All-Ireland winners came up second best to Munster in Sunday’s M Donnelly Interprovicial semi-final at Parnell Park.

Ulster’s footballers were the big winners of the day in the Interprovincial semi-finals as they easily saw off Connacht at Markievicz Park.

Fermanagh moved top of Allianz Football League Division Four on Sunday with a comfortable 12-point win over London.

The Down senior football management team are hopeful that forward Danny Hughes will be fit to face Kerry in early March.

Peter Sherry has joined London club Tir Chonaill Gaels, making a return for him to the Fermanagh panel all the more unlikely.

Armagh footballers Ciaran McKeever and Malachy Mackin have been handed suspensions and will miss their county's Allianz Football League Division One encounter with Mayo on March 3.

Sean O'Sullivan has retired from inter-county football for the second time.

Dermot Earley does not know when he will be ready to return for Kildare but he is hoping he will be able to play some part in the Championship.

Kerry manager Jack O'Connor has expressed his sadness at the news that David Moran has been struck down with a second cruciate ligament injury.

Influential Kerry midfielder David Moran is set to miss the remainder of the season after suffering his second severed cruciate ligament injury inside ten months.

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte must plan without Sean O'Neill for the duration of the Allianz Football League after the half-back was suspended for three months by the GAA's Higher Education body.

James Reilly has returned to the Cavan senior football squad ahead of the Allianz Football League.

Former Dublin manager Tommy Lyons believes Pat Gilroy's men can drive on and achieve further glory after getting the 'monkey off their back' in 2011.

David O'Callaghan will miss the Dublin's opening match in the Allianz Hurling League due to pneumonia.

Connacht will meet Leinster in the M Donnelly Interprovicial Hurling final after overcoming a slow start to beat Ulster on Sunday.

Leinster claimed their place in the M Donnelly Interprovincial hurling final with a hard-fought 3-14 to 1-16 win over Munster at Nowlan Park on Sunday.

GAA President-elect Liam O'Neill has warned that hurling could be wiped out unless something is done to help weaker counties develop the sport.

Hurler of the Year Michael Fennelly has not given up hope of seeing James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick and John Dalton in the yellow and black of Kilkenny again.

The extraordinary work put in by counties could be to blame for the growing number of inter-county players bringing their careers to a premature end, Jimmy Barry-Murphy has speculated.

Declan Ryan is hopeful Lar Corbett will return to the Tipperary senior hurling panel but he admits the decision is not his to make.

Clare defender Pat Vaughan has undergone surgery to repair a long standing hip injury and is preparing for a long road back to fitness.

Dan Shanahan has warned Tipperary will struggle to replace Lar Corbett following his shock retirement.

Former Galway hurler Ollie Canning has expressed his shock at Lar Corbett's decision to retire from inter-county hurling.

Lar Corbertt has called time on his inter-county career, citing work and business commitments.

Limerick hurling manager John Allen does not agree with those who believe only Kilkenny and Tipperary are in the running for this year's Liam McCarthy.

Henry Shefflin has ruled out the possibility of James 'Cha' Fitzpatrick returning to the Kilkenny senior hurling panel in the future.

Conal Keaney has opened up about the accident that left him with a serious lateral ligament knee injury last summer, admitting he was lucky not to lose his life.

New Waterford hurling manager Michael Ryan does not to expect to come under any extra pressure despite the fact that he is the county's first native boss in 16 years.