ALLIANZ FL DIVISION 1: Cork v Donegal

When I think of where the Kildare footballer is now are now compared to where he was last August, I’m reminded of the phrase first popularised by the cigarette brand Virginia Slims back in the 60s — “You’ve come a long way baby”.

For all their dominance of the game in Kerry and their back-to-back Munster titles there is sense that Dr Crokes must seize the opportunity and give their followers at least one more day out.

I was reminded yesterday in Killarney of the scene in Tim Burton’s classic 1994 film about the infamous B-Movie director, Ed Wood, where Mr Feldman at Warner Brothers Studios rings Wood and tells him that his latest offering was “the worst film I ever saw”...

Too many Kerry players threw in the towel last weekend but a different attitude can be expected against the Dubs

As Woody Allen might say, if you’re not failing every now and again, you’re not doing anything very innovative

Saying that you admire and respect Joe Brolly in Kerry is in the same parish as an Israelite claiming to like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The outcome of the 2012 Kerry county final was always going to depend on how champions Dr Crokes approached the game.

That the abiding image of the All-Ireland final should be a traditional catch and kick is remarkable, but perhaps we shouldn’t be all that surprised by Michael Murphy’s early goal last weekend given the evolution the grand old game has undergone these past few months.

SOME of us who spent days of indulgence and dissipation in the mid-90s watching films will be familiar with the scene: The opening sequence in Neil Jordan’s film Michael Collins and as the leaders of the Easter 1916 Rising emerge from the smoke to surrender, a disappointed Collins (Liam Neeson) turns to his comrade Harry Boland (Aidan Quinn) and says that next time next time, “we won’t play by their rules, Harry. We’ll invent our own.”