Roscommon were crowned intermediate champions for 2009 on Sunday after an enthralling final when came back from a three-point deficit to beat Offaly by 0-9 to 0-8.

Intermediate Football Championships: Tough match yields no winner; Senior football semi-final: Senior Semi comes to a draw

This weekend at the NY GAA, Offaly, Roscommon, Cork and Down came out on top.

Eugene Kyne with the match reports from all the action at Gaelic Park in the Bronx

News bits from each of the 32 counties in Ireland.

Eugene Kyne gives his predictions for the upcoming weekend's football and hurling fixtures from the Bronx.

It is impossible not to get caught up in the mischief and malarkey of one of Irish band Shilelagh Law's shows, with the crowd pumping their fists in the air, screaming soccer stadium chants between songs, and shouting out the words to all the bedrock traditional ditties and original tunes in the band’s repertoire.

Eugene Kyne gives the skinny on this weekend's upcoming football and hurling fixtures in the Bronx.

A SENIOR football challenge between a traveling Galway squad of policemen will take on the local police force in a contest that should prove to be well worth the visit for the NY spectators on Saturday at Gaelic Park.

A few well known New Yorkers will be lining out, with Danny Sullivan, Pat Doherty, John Walsh, Paul Galvin and Barry Annette expected to be in the New York lineup. These contests have a long history as the New York squad has played a number of games in Ireland over the past number of years.

NYPD 2-9

Galway Garda (Police) 1-11

THE contest between the rival police departments of Galway and New York took a while to get going on Saturday as the second part of the New York departments' double header. But when it did come to life it rivaled a championship encounter.

Galway had Alan Keane, the former All-Ireland winner with Galway, as their captain while New York had some guest players from New York football circles to help them in the battle at hand.

Dublin Fire Department 1-18

FDNY 2-08

IN a very entertaining encounter, the Dublin Fire Department used a second half display when they outshot their hosts New York 1-9 to 0-4 to take the Lord Mayor's Cup on Saturday under a beautiful autumn sun. With conditions perfect, they overcame a slim deficit at the half and used impressive individual displays by Seanan Moylan and Alan Moore to secure the victory.

Dublin Fire Brigade jumped out into an 0-6 to 0-2 lead in the first 15 minutes of this entertaining contest as they used the efficiency of frees to easily get on top.

NYPD 1-11

CIE 0-8

THE last game of the day was the NYPD playing another selection from the CIE traveling team. This time the CIE outfit came out second best, but they will certainly be very happy with their trip to the Big Apple.

They stayed at the Army Base in Staten Island where they had a full time security detail and as John Cassidy, a Donegal native who was part of their backroom staff said, they had tremendous attention paid to them by both the Fire Department and Police Department which they will forever be thankful for.

Ireland & the U.S. Presidential Campaign Trail

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The annual ritual that is transfer night arrived last week with some big winners and losers as the night ended. In contrast to prior years when clubs could not lose more than three players to one club, this season Armagh and Donegal took major hits to their