Dublin hardly expected Monaghan to roll out the red carpet for them on Sunday but when the home side chose not to provide them with a guard of honour the visitors knew for sure they were in for a testing afternoon, writes John Fogarty.

Ireland manager Martin O’Neill has revealed that two seats from the original Nally Stand in Croke Park have pride of place in his back garden.

GAA rivalry has long pitted parish against parish and turned county against county, but it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe at the funeral of Dublin football hero Kevin Heffernan.

IN their day, Jimmy Doyle and Eddie Keher played on two of the greatest teams of all time. Both were automatic selections on the GAA teams of the century and millennium, filling the corner-forward positions. They met and discussed those bygone days.