Illusionist Uri Geller has offered to help Mayo end their 'curse' and win the All-Ireland football title.

The Larry Ryan Interview: Limerick manager John Kiely considers a selection of images from an emotional summer and reflects on the weight of history, the Dolores O’Riordan factor, the war on hype, puckout stats, the influence of Paul Kinnerk, his dislike of sweepers, and why he vowed to make sure his players would never forget the time of their lives.

Whataboutery is usually an exercise best avoided but, bear with us: in this instance, it is worth indulging. We’re trying to imagine the game of Gaelic football without more than three consecutive hand-passes, which will be the situation in a couple of weeks.

The appetite for a tiered All-Ireland football championship grows as the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) has recorded a shift towards the format.

Back again. Still chasing their dream, hoping this September might bring something different.

Dublin's Jack McCaffrey picked up the RTÉ All-Ireland Senior Football Final Man of the Match Award last night, after a fourth All-Ireland title in a row this afternoon.

A fourth straight All-Ireland title for Dublin and a sixth this decade turned out to be their easiest as they swallowed Tyrone’s early promise and made the final their own.

So let’s get the semantics out of the way first. The Kerry minor footballers who triumphed at Croke Park today looked and played like a more callow team than their winning predecessors since 2014.

Conor Lane will referee the All Ireland Football final meeting of Dublin and Tyrone.

Two tickets for the All-Ireland football final of Dublin and Tyrone were spotted on eBay for €3,500.

Emergency supplies of hurleys, sliotars, and green and white jerseys have been ordered for a Limerick sports shop, as All-Ireland fever takes over the city and county.

Limerick legend Joe Quaid believes their players have the right mental approach to finally end their 45-year wait to lift the Liam McCarthy Cup this Sunday.

Ahead of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals, the GAA has issued a warning for anyone thinking of buying or selling touted tickets.

Dublin sit just 70 minutes away from the county’s first four-in-a-row of All-Ireland senior football titles after an utterly dominant second-half display against the Connacht champions at HQ on Saturday evening.

Twenty years ago Ray Silke had the unique distinction of leading both his club and county up the Hogan Stand steps to collect senior All-Ireland titles in Croke Park. Two decades on he is still leading by example — but in a very different capacity

Tipperary will chase redemption when they meet Cork in the All-Ireland U21 hurling, a repeat of this summer’s Munster decider which the Rebels won handily.

Lovely hurling.

Limerick has wasted no time in setting out their stall between now and the All-Ireland final in three weeks time.

The Halfway House in Walkinstown is as Dublin as you can get. The blue and navy festoons the ceiling but there’s one corner of the premises sporting the green and white. Its owner Gerry O’Malley’s nod to the presence of Eamonn “Ned” Rea behind the bar.

You shall know them by the trail of diesel receipts. Or the plastic wrapping from €2.99 best-of CDs picked up in service stations. By the Supermacs cartons and the Frank & Honest coffee cups, all of the fuel necessary to get an army on the road and to keep it marching.

Sixteen counties have tumbled into the lottery drum that it is the first round of All-Ireland qualifiers and the records show that very few manage to find their feet in any meaningful way again.

Former Dublin All-Star Ray Cosgrove has identified new-look Kerry as the greatest threat to his county’s bid for four All-Ireland titles in a row.

Ballyhale Shamrocks may be one of hurling’s most decorated clubs, but tradition counts for little in the quest to build, develop and grow. A five-year fundraising drive was launched last week with TJ Reid and Joey Holden amongst those working to secure the future for the next generation of young talents. writes PM O’Sullivan

Micheál Donoghue believes there is no need to rethink the weight of the sliotar in light of his Galway team’s achievement in claiming last year’s All-Ireland title without finding the net in their last four championship games.

Tomorrow’s clash of Cork and Louth in the Allianz Football League will rekindle memories of their meeting in the 1957 All-Ireland.

It was the Tuesday evening after Galway’s All-Ireland final win that the magnitude of their achievement finally registered with Conor Cooney.

A survivor of Waterford’s last All-Ireland win in 1959, Austin Flynn manned the Déise square at a time when his chief responsibility was to ‘protect the goalkeeper from being killed’. His policing was thorough, even when assigned the cases of greats such as Nickey Rackard, Liam Devaney, and Christy Ring, who became a great friend as much as foe.

In considering these men, it is impossible to ignore the political climate of 1917, writes Paul Rouse.

The weekend of August 26 has been left vacant in the event of Pope Francis visiting.

“I underestimated you” were the first words former Wimbledon winner Bobby Riggs said to Billie Jean King in 1973 after she defeated him in front of 90m TV viewers.

Back in 2004, long before several of Jack McCaffrey’s teammates hauled Mayo defenders to the ground to prevent them from receiving a kickout in the closing moments of an All-Ireland final, his father Noel, along with some other eminent academic colleagues, conducted a study into the attitudes of Irish athletes towards cheating.