Dublin will be rightly hailed as one of the truly great sides and are in the middle of writing a very special history for themselves, writes Mike Quirke.

A number of prominent Gaelic footballers have called for the black card to be reviewed in the wake of a series of questionable decisions relating to it in this year’s All-Ireland series.

On March 19, 2017, Kerry are set to entertain Dublin in their round five Division 1 game. Should Dublin extend their current 29-game unbeaten run to that point, they will have the opportunity to match the greatest invincible stretch set by the Kingdom between 1928 and 1933 when they went 34 matches without a defeat.

Beleaguered Mayo goalkeeper Rob Hennelly yesterday revealed his heartache following Saturday’s All- Ireland final replay defeat.

Concerted campaign or just a confluence of opinions?

Chekhov’s gun. It’s a literary, ahem, thing. Erudite and discerning folk that they are, readers of the Irish Examiner’s sports section will be familiar with the concept. 

Are the back-to-back All-Ireland champions set fair for further domination or already past their peak?

Dublin 1-15 Mayo 1-14: In the battle of pragmatism and poetry, there was only going to be one winner. And Dublin it was.

Rugby country, Saturday afternoon. Population: 5,000. Probably less.

Today, everything is immaterial. The strength of Dublin’s bench? Irrelevant.

"We have good days and bad days, but these lads pull through the whole time."

Excitement is building in Dublin ahead of the football team's homecoming this evening.

Another season, a few more slices of history for the Dubs. Not just on the pitch, but along the sideline, too.

An understandably dejected Stephen Rochford explained the reasoning behind the decision to start Rob Hennelly in this evening’s All-Ireland final replay.

Five All-Ireland finals that went to replays have produced lessons that can be applied today...

Asked to consider the lowest point of his year-long rehabilitation from a cruciate knee-ligament injury, Eoghan O’Gara, the big Dublin forward, didn’t have to thumb too far through his mental files.

There are questions. And then there are the leading questions, more important even than the Five Things We Learned. Here’s 40 head-scratchers in advance of today’s Croke Park shenanigans.

The leaves are disappearing off the trees, the lawn mower is in hibernation until next year and I have transferred my golf wet gear for my football bag for a winter with club and college. And yet we have no All-Ireland champions.

Garrycastle have not ruled out organising a helicopter for Dessie Dolan to ensure he fulfils his Saturday Game duties after their Westmeath SFC quarter-final today.

All-Ireland SFC final match preview: If you’re led to believe some of the commentary this last week and a half, much of Mayo have been doing rain-dances on top of their traditional pre-final routines of spitting on horseshoes and rubbing rabbits’ feet.

Of the many things outside Dublin manager Jim Gavin’s control approaching tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final replay, the weather is at the very top of that list.

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.

Mayo don’t always come back from the big show empty-handed.

To most of the casual supporters of Gaelic football in the country, the name Donie Buckley probably means little, if anything.