A few months before he won the 1999 US Open, the late golfer Payne Stewart was gifted for his birthday a nylon bracelet by his son Aaron with the letters WWJD emblazoned on them, writes John Fogarty.

No senior, U20, or minor inter-county panel should be permitted to return to collective training before December 1, according to Connacht secretary John Prenty, who has called on Croke Park to hand over governance of training ban rules to provincial councils.

Former Dublin footballer Ger Brennan is fearful scheduling changes to the Sigerson Cup and All-Ireland U20 football championship could lead to young players dropping out of college.

Éamonn Fitzmaurice might not be pacing the Fitzgerald Stadium sideline this Sunday but for many in Mayo he might as well be.

An insipid Dublin SFC final was decided by the simple fact St Vincent’s weren’t as poor as their opponents.

As David Burke’s acceptance speech extended on Sunday, Peter Canavan’s victorious address 14 years previous came to mind. “I’m not finished yet,” the Tyrone great told the masses in front of him. “It took me a long time to get here.”

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final

Dublin forwards coach Jason Sherlock insists that the majority of the All-Ireland champions’ backroom team are volunteers and that much of the county’s success has nothing to do with “resources”.

Concerted campaign or just a confluence of opinions?

Former Mayo footballer Trevor Mortimer says the series of negative comments from Dublin figures about Lee Keegan shows the champions are rattled going into tomorrow’s All-Ireland final replay.

Trust us when we write this: there is enough reason to believe the war waged against Lee Keegan by Dublin GAA figures since the drawn All-Ireland final is a campaign.

Former Dublin defender Ger Brennan believes the All-Ireland holders have grown too cautious and need to rekindle their spirit of ‘adventure’ to beat Mayo at the second attempt.

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Declan O’Sullivan has spoken of how he used the barracking he received from a section of Kerry supporters in 2005 as motivation for the remainder of his stellar career.

“Strike while the iron’s hot or forever regret it,” is the battle cry from Ballyboden St Endas’ Michael Darragh Macauley ahead of tomorrow’s All-Ireland club semi-final.

Could it be that we aren’t as tight with our old pals Paddy, William, Fred, Boyler and the rest as these guys like to pretend?

It’s the pink football that has been causing quite the sexism row on social media — but many are calling out the ‘Ladyball’ as a clever hoax.

Former Dublin footballer Ger Brennan has criticised the media-friendly behaviour of some of his colleagues earlier in his career.

Jim Gavin has paid tribute to retiring Dublin footballer Ger Brennan, lauding the centre-back for his “self-determination and self-sacrifice” to his sport.

Sunday: Croke Park, 3.30pm

I spotted him from a distance, and I knew instantly something was coming, I just wasn’t sure exactly what. This walking into town after a Kerry game was a whole new ball game to me: “Go home to youz bleedin’ cows and leave the football to us… Up the Dubs” was the exuberant proclamation that greeted me as I skulked away from Croke Park.

Barry Cahill believes Paddy Andrews’ fine performance against Mayo in last Saturday week’s semi-final replay has given Eamonn Fitzmaurice something extra to think about on Sunday.

Former Dublin attacker Ray Cosgrove has offered a downbeat assessment of the injury that threatens to rule club-mate Cian O’Sullivan out of the All-Ireland final.

As Conor Mortimer said earlier this week, the needle between Dublin and Mayo started back in 2006 with Warm-up-gate.

It’s the thought occupying most Dublin fans’ minds right now, though county great Jimmy Keaveney believes too much is being made of how the Dubs’ will cope with Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea.

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?

Philly McMahon isn’t concerned that Dublin’s provincial dominance will leave them vulnerable entering the final stages of the championship.

Bernard Brogan insists Dublin have parked the controversial ‘Davey Byrne Affair’ which saw the panellist suffer a broken nose before a recent challenge match against Armagh at DCU.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice has displayed his bold streak once again by altering more than a quarter of his Kerry team for Saturday’s Munster football final replay with Cork.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin admits he and Kieran McGeeney were left disappointed by a pre-match incident involving Davy Byrne and an Armagh player that left Byrne with a broken nose.

Keeping in line with the most predictable provincial championships in recent times, tomorrow is shaping up to be a nice day for a white wedding. An arranged marriage, that is, at Dublin’s behest. Appropriately, apart from wearing blue they have something old, something new and something borrowed.

Could your county board do with an extra €5m? Would your county board like this €5m to come in the form of one of those great Fifa loans that don’t actually have to be paid back?

David Brady believes his fellow Mayo man Cillian O’Connor would be receiving more praise were he from another county.

The Irish Examiner's sports editor, Tony Leen, convenes a roundtable on what to expect from this year's senior football championship.

These are busy times for Conor Cusack in the sporting arena and beyond but he is rising to the challenge with his customary passion, writes Kieran Shannon.

Dublin’s Rory O’Carroll will consider quitting Gaelic football if he suffers another concussion.

Teachers should not be expected to provide further extra work in return for any restoration of pay cuts of recent years, delegates at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland congress told their officials.

Corofin (Galway) v Slaughtneil (Derry)