So there we have it, another season finishes with Dublin as All-Ireland champions...

Sunday’s All-Ireland final may remain in the balance until the closing moments. And if it does, Dublin have the perfect tag-team of closers.

Under lights last Friday, the curtain fell on our club championship campaign. We lost by the minimum in what was a replay after an extra-time thriller the previous weekend.

It would be easy to jump on the negativity bandwagon and take a pop at any one of the easy pickings in the aftermath of the drawn All-Ireland semi-final between Dublin and Mayo.

I recently read an article in The Guardian in which the columnist was bemoaning the closure of the fabled Sports Illustrated library in New York. A sure sign of how the changing demands of readers is dictating how mainstream media now operates.

When it come to the physical side there needs to be an acceptance that the lines can be crossed at times without the game being called into disrepute. It’s accepted in hurling, so why not in football, asks Dick Clerkin

2012 may be remembered as the year in which the glass ceiling was shattered for those considered second tier counties in the Gaelic football world.

Given the manner in which Donegal convincingly disposed of yet another recent All-Ireland champion eight days ago, there could only be one subject to fill this week’s column.