To curve or to swerve — that is the question.

It’s 80 years since Kerry won the All-Ireland in the Dingle colours of red and white that were originally a set of Cork jerseys.

Seventeen Kerry players are in line to make their All-Ireland senior final debut on Sunday afternoon.

Peter Keane wasn’t the least bit surprised to hear Jim Gavin regard his Kerry side as a team of the now, rather than one for the future.

A master of his trade is asked to consider how the apprentices are faring.

Amazing the things you pick up while out and about.

The climax to the second weekend of Super 8 football was needed to keep us interested. In truth, the other games disappointed in various ways.

It was a different Kerry dressing room that David Clifford stepped back into in March. Gone were Kieran Donaghy, Anthony Maher, Darran O’Sullivan, and Donnchadh Walsh.

New manager Peter Keane said yesterday that if Kerry suffer any further player injuries or withdrawals in advance of Sunday week’s league opener against Tyrone, he might be forced to look up to the press box to fill out the bench.

Judgment on Mayo will wait three weeks, though Heaven knows why. It’s not as if their defiance, determination and desperation is at issue.

I’ll ask the question: How much have Kerry actually progressed in 12 months? Have they found senior-ready players? No.

The Kerry manager wasn't reaching for excuses after today's defeat.

A stunning Mayo performance put an out-of-sorts Kerry out of their misery in a thoroughly deserving All-Ireland semi-final replay win.

The Leaving Certificate results were delivered yesterday. Much debate and fanfare mixed with smiles and tears were shared, no doubt, across the country.

The ambivalence of Joe Brolly towards Colm Cooper shouldn’t shock nor should it surprise, writes John Fogarty. 

A league final like no other. A league final so pregnant with significance that it was bound to deliver.

When most of us look back on yesterday’s drama at Croke Park, it will be the image of Dean Rock’s 75th-minute free cannoning off the Kerry post that will emerge from the fug of time and stand out in our mind’s eye as the last act on a stage that delivered an absurd amount of drama.

Our writers tackle the talking points for a busy weekend of Allianz League action in hurling and football.

Kerry, who travel to Dr Hyde Park to face Roscommon in Division 1 of the Allianz FL tomorrow (2pm), have two changes in personnel, as well as a number of positional switches, following their loss to Monaghan.

Aidan Walsh of St Mary’s makes his league debut as Kerry make seven changes for tomorrow’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Down at Páirc Esler in Newry (2pm).

Goalkeeper Brian Kelly, Aidan O’Mahony, and Jonathan Lyne are the three inclusions as Kerry opt against wholesale changes for tomorrow’s visit of Roscommon to Fitzgerald Stadium in Division 1 of the Allianz Football League (2pm).

Dublin’s Philly McMahon is in line to pick up the 2015 footballer-of-the-year award, having been named on the all-Dublin three-person shortlist.

Dublin 0-12 Kerry 0-9: Back in February, Paul Flynn made a daring comment about last season. Despite finishing a distant second to runners-up Donegal in an All-Ireland semi-final, he was adamant about who he felt were the finest outfit in 2014. And he wasn’t talking about Kerry.

A day from the heavens alright, if not from football’s gods. They’ve been especially stingy in 2015.

It’s become a feature of both Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s and Jim Gavin’s reigns that they tend not to select Under 21 players for big matches. It begs the question, why not?

It was jersey day yesterday at the school which must surely hold a claim to the title of Kerry GAA football nursery.

Kerry captain Kieran Donaghy has been named as a substitute for Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC final against Dublin, while the Kingdom have also been forced to reconfigure their full-back line following the semi-final win against Tyrone.

February 2011 and Dublin have beaten Cork by six points. Under the Hogan Stand, Pat Gilroy is quietly praising his team for getting their discipline in check in the second half, but his calm words betray his delight. Inside he’s dancing.

3 key battles from yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final...

So will Kerry be deigned an unstoppable juggernaut, the phrase so often ascribed to Dublin, after matching on Sunday their rival’s 28-point record-winning margin for the 2015 championship?

RTÉ GAA pundit Martin Carney has defended his decision to award Kerry’s James O’Donoghue the man of the match award in Saturday’s Munster SFC final replay victory over Cork.

Kingdom find the missing keys: Kerry’s depth is illustrated not so much in who came in but who didn’t

Five things we learned about the value of a replay.

Kerry 2-14 Tipperary 2-8: So, Kerry get the "dirty petrol" out of their system and look ahead to another joust with old foes Cork.

The inclusion of Colm Cooper at centre-forward is one of seven changes to the Kerry side since last year’s All-Ireland final for Sunday’s Munster SFC semi-final with Tipperary in Thurles on Sunday (3.30pm).

Legion 1-13 Mid Kerry 0-14 (AET): It took extra time to determine the winners of this Kerry SFC first-round tie in Killorglin, with Legion showing admirable pluck after a slow start to edge Mid Kerry.