To get an idea of just how driven and focused Jim Gavin’s Dublin are to put back-to-back All Ireland titles together, cast your mind back to the first rather than the last game of this year’s national league.

There’s hardly another GAA weekend like it for stirring so many permutations and palpitations... and exaggerations.

When to drink or not to drink, that is the question anyone involved with a team must ask.

Watching the national leagues over the weekend, it not only felt a bit like summer – it felt what summer should be a bit more like.

There can be few things more irksome and irritating as a GAA player than losing a game in Croke Park and then finding you’re one of the players being drug-tested straight after.

In sport, you can’t get too comfortable in your surroundings.