Of all the championship games this weekend, this evening’s game between Donegal and Tyrone in Clones is the only one which could be described as a cusp game.

In his three All-Ireland winning seasons as Kerry manager Jack O’Connor was forced to show his imagination and resolve in adversity.

“The old year’s gone away to nothingness and night,” wrote John Clare many years ago and much of the focus ahead of Dublin’s championship bow at Croke Park tomorrow centres on how much they have committed the pleasant memories of the old year to nothingness and night.

Both Kerry and Tipperary have some serious questions to answer

“It’s hard to find a chip on the shoulder when everyone’s patting you on the back” — Tony Kernan, March 17, 2012]

There was a theory in Galway last month before they played Kildare in what turned out to be the final league match of the season that Galway would be better off not winning.

While Liam O’Neill’s recent comments on the state of Gaelic football were not quite equivalent to the CEO of Coca Cola proclaiming that the iconic refreshment is no longer the ‘real thing’, the GAA President’s comments about his most popular product raised some eyebrows.

There is a danger in trying to analyse tomorrow’s league semi-final between Cork and Down of not seeing the difference between empirical fact and subjective assessment.

1 Kerry still don’t do transition

Mayo fans are despairing as their footballers endure a torrid league campaign.