Dublin this evening extended their unbeaten run against Mayo to 16 games.

There were emotional scenes on the Kilmallock sideline when referee Barry Tiernan blew his final whistle and confirmed Oughterard’s spot in the All-Ireland Club IFC final.

Towards the end of our conversation, Nemo Rangers goalkeeper Micheál Aodh Martin is asked what it would mean to get back to an All-Ireland club football final.

Paul O’Donovan, manager of the Nemo Rangers team will this Saturday attempt to bring an end to Corofin’s charge to become the first club football side to take ownership of the Andy Merrigan Cup three years in succession.

Ballyhale Shamrocks’ Joey Holden admits he is getting to grips with the scheduling of their AIB All-Ireland club semi-final with Slaughtneil.

Mattock Rangers braved an early blitz from underdogs Mullinavat to claim the Leinster Intermediate football crown in Drogheda.

Cork camogie manager Paudie Murray has welcomed the new set of experimental rules, but believes they will be trialled at the wrong time of year.

Of all the rows ‘The Sunday Game’ programmes generated during the last 40 years, perhaps changing the theme tune 15 years ago was the greatest of them. Here our GAA correspondent John Fogarty lists 10 of the controversies prompted by comments and quotes.

Corofin are just 120 minutes away from becoming the first football or hurling club to win three All-Ireland senior titles in a row, but they still know how to celebrate their successes after Sunday’s Connacht final victory over Pádraig Pearse’s.

The turmoil and tension engulfing Mayo GAA is a sorry state of affairs, especially as it could have been nipped in the bud months ago.

Darragh O’Sullivan didn’t have much joy against Clare opposition during his Ballygunner playing days. He’s hoping for better luck now that he’s traded the jersey for the bainisteoir’s bib.

Former Limerick All-Star Seamus Hickey has claimed it was ‘short-sighted’ of the GAA not to have seriously considered introducing video technology to assist referees. Hickey’s Limerick were on the wrong end of arguably the biggest mistake all season when a ‘65 to potentially level their All-Ireland semi-final against Kilkenny wasn’t awarded.

Referees chief Willie Barrett believes the sin bin will make Gaelic football match officials’ lives easier — but admits the possible rule change is open to time wasting.

Cian Lynch’s last two All-Ireland final weekends couldn’t have been more different.

Cian Lynch supports the Limerick County Board’s call for video technology to be used in inter-county games where possible.

All-Ireland camogie champions Galway have picked up 14 All-Star nominations, but there is surprise at Cork, who topped their group and came up one point short to the Tribeswomen in the All-Ireland semi-final, having just four players shortlisted.

Touchy, aren’t we? A few people took offence at my quip last week that I was taking the Henry Kissinger line on the Iran-Iraq war regarding the Dublin-Kerry.

All-Ireland winner Bryan Sheehan on learning the art of free-taking from Maurice Fitzgerald and why Kerry football is in a good place, despite the exodus of its All-Ireland winning stars.

Paul Murphy, unsurprisingly, didn’t enjoy how Tyrone set themselves up in the All-Ireland semi-final earlier this month.

Ephie Fitzgerald has brought the curtain down on his four years with the Cork Ladies football team in the wake of the Munster champions' loss to Dublin in an All-Ireland semi-final at Croke Park on Sunday afternoon.

It is the first time that Croke Park has hosted this stage of the Ladies Football championship.

So that’s Friday nearly wrapped up.

Paul Keane It’s hardly news to him but Graham Canty puffs his cheeks out all the same as he considers Dublin’s Championship record since 2010.

Niall Sludden has promised that Tyrone won’t be afraid to shake things up, should they find themselves in a crisis at Croke Park on Sunday.

James Owens will be the All-Ireland SHC final man in the middle for the second year running on Sunday week.

Declan Bonner was left to rue the missed opportunities he believes hampered any chance of his side reaching a first All-Ireland semi-final in five seasons.

Kieran Kingston’s return as manager is the preferred option of the Cork senior hurling panel in the wake of John Meyler’s departure.

Kerry team announcements are nothing to set your clock by right now, but for the record, Peter Keane has named David Moran in the 15 to face Meath in Navan on Saturday.

Meyler led the Rebels to successive Munster titles in 2017 and 2018, but the defeat to Limerick in last year's All-Ireland semi-final left a lingering aftertaste in the county as Cork coughed up a late six-point lead.

Quite frankly, only the most dogged of souls will survive. And even then, the bodies will be sore for days afterwards, you would imagine.

The Limerick County Board have registered their disappointment and frustration with Croke Park about how they were denied a 65 in the penultimate play of Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Kilkenny.

The GAA’s newly-appointed national match officials manager is open to the idea of more technology being used to assist referees, but has questioned just how far it can go.

John Fogarty Tipperary boss Liam Sheedy has drafted in Barry Heffernan and Michael Breen to give his team a more physical edge in tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final against Wexford.

Seventy-three years ago, Jimmy O’Donoghue hurled for Limerick against Kilkenny in Croke Park. One of two remaining survivors from that champion NHL panel, he reflects on this evening’s All-Ireland semi-final between the two counties and on his journey as a hurler and a civil servant which saw him play the game in four counties

Not to put too fine a point on it but Kilkenny won the All-Ireland quarter-final largely because they were playing — and were allowed to play by and play through — Cork. Not to put too fine a point on it but they’re unlikely to win the All-Ireland semi-final largely because they’ll be playing — and will not be allowed to play by and play through — Limerick.

Kevin Foley was one of the Wexford hurlers who made the long trip to Sixmilebridge last winter to persuade Davy Fitzgerald to stay on as manager.

Cork U20 manager Denis Ring couldn’t hide his disappointment at the final whistle last night, describing his side’s narrow defeat to Tipperary as “gut-wrenching”.

The GAA are anticipating a crowd of over 60,000 for Saturday’s Limerick-Kilkenny All-Ireland semi-final.

The Waterford full-forward line was in devastating form as they proved far too strong for Monaghan in this TG4 All-Ireland SFC Group 2 clash at Shamrock Park in Cremartin.

“From the frying pan into the fire” was how Brian Cody assessed the prospect of facing All-Ireland champions Limerick in Saturday week’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Limerick and Wexford’s provincial successes are expected to provide windfalls for the GAA later this month.

Super sub JJ Hutchinson was the game-changer for Ballygunner in the final quarter as the champions blitzed Dungarvan with the last nine points of yesterday’s Round 2 contest at a wet, wet, wet Walsh Park (1-18 to 0-14).

Mickey Graham spent the informative months of his inter-county managerial career flitting between the home and away changing-rooms in Kingspan Breffni Park.

Tipperary legend Nicky English says it’s possible Limerick could ‘fly through’ the entire championship but he will reserve judgement until he sees if they’ve got the energy for a successful All-Ireland defence.