Do managers and their players, learn more from defeat and tight games than easy victories?

The first half of this encounter at a windy Pearse Stadium provided a perfect example of how Gaelic football can be a pig ugly field game when it is played in a certain way, by limited teams.

Columnist, Ray Silke, identifies the three key areas which saw Donegal emerge victorious in Sunday's Ulster clash of the titans.

Sometimes there can be no excuses.

In a game devoid of the negativity and cynicism often too prevalent in the senior ranks, these two counties produced a tremendous evening of football skills in difficult weather conditions.

In the match programme at Elverys MacHale Park yesterday, Kerry’s Bryan Sheehan was asked what were his hopes for the future of Kerry football?

Tuam Stars are the most celebrated club in Galway football.

Mayo were 10 points to the good yesterday early in the second half, leading by 0-17 to 0-7, and yet they were reduced to stumbling over the finish line to win by three.

When a team concedes 3-18 in a senior inter-county Gaelic football match at this stage of the season, questions have to be asked.

Laois head to Croke Park next weekend for their clash with Dublin full of confidence and with a real pep in their step – I was going to say “momentum” – but it has now officially become the most overused word in the GAA lexicon during the qualifiers.