Note of caution as Connacht and Ulster win under trial rules at Croke Park

Allianz GAA Football Interprovincial semi-finals

Ulster 0-23 (23) Munster 2-11 (19); Connacht 4-21 (37) Leinster 1-11 (15)

Aidan O'Shea's Player of the Match display, including the first four-point goal to be scored at Croke Park, propelled Connacht through to tomorrow evening's interprovincial final where they will meet Ulster on a night where the new proposed Football Review Committee rules were under the microscope.

The in-form Breaffy man helped himself to 1-03 overall, a tally that included the novel four-point goal, a two-point long-range score from beyond the new 40m arc and a regular point.

It was all too easy for the Pádraic Joyce-managed westerners who had 22 points to spare on a surprisingly outclassed Leinster.

Leitrim's Barry McNulty, London's Liam Gallagher and Ciarain Murtagh of Roscommon got among the goals too as Connacht made short work of Leinster to secure a final clash with Ulster.

It wasn't as easy for Ulster in this evening's second semi-final who required late points from Antrim's Marc Jordan and Derry's Niall Toner to see off Munster.

The real intrigue was around the trial rules with the competition being used as a vehicle to test out the FRC's suite of 'rules enhancements'.

Munster's two goals, from Sean Walsh and Kerry's Diarmuid O'Connor, added up to eight points and that increased reward kept them in the game right until the end.

Ulster goalkeeper Niall Morgan made light of the restrictions on passing back to goalkeepers and bombed forward for one long-range two-point score and he also set up several more opportunities.

Morgan was named Player of the Match and both he and O'Shea expressed some reservations about the rules afterwards.

"The tap and go and keeping the three players up work," said