Tom Mullally has become well accustomed to having plenty of inside knowledge on certain teams

Noel McGrath and Loughmore-Castliney again underlined their class and experience.

Sunday may have been all razzmatazz but three sellout crowds in the fourth largest stadium in Europe - the largest not used primarily for football – in just the last 17 months proves that there has been a lot more non-GAA events staged in Croke Park than people think.

How strong would Lavey – who play Slaughtneil in Sunday’s Derry quarter-final – be with the Downeys on board?

New Roscommon football manager Mark Dowd is among the 7% of bosses who didn't play inter-county

Hannah Tyrrell hangs up her boots but not completely on her own terms as a knee injury sees her leave Croke Park for the final time. 

One-sided matches may have blighted the tail end of the campaign but this was a Championship which will live long in the memory 

David Clifford ended the match with 0-9 from eight shots, yet his brother was even more influential

The biggest challenge for McGuinness was in trying to identify gaps, internally and in the opposition, and then try and find a solution to fill them.

An All-Ireland final barely believable in many respects - glory for the McGraths, devastation for Patrick Horgan and Cork, and Rhys Shelly's history-making point