Former back-to-back All-Star nominee Daniel Flynn has admitted it was a heart-to-heart with Kildare great Johnny Doyle that made him realise he’d lost his ‘grá’ for the game.

Two of the chief proposals put forward by the fixture calendar review taskforce recommend changing the All-Ireland SFC format

The season may have ended in disappointment for the Kerry footballers with defeat to Dublin in an All-Ireland final replay but off the field, there was plenty to celebrate.

The ghost of Munster final past. Just one of those four previous experiences haunts Paul Kerrigan, and that nightmare becomes more acute as Sunday draws near.

Westmeath great Dessie Dolan pulled down the shutters on his playing career on a bittersweet afternoon in Mullingar as Garrycastle exited the AIB Leinster club championship.

There is a curious notion doing the rounds. This notion imagines that the great challenge in making a success of the GAA’s new All-Ireland B Football Championship is one of marketing.

Bernard Brogan is one of the founders of Peptalk, a corporate well-being company that counts big businesses like Coca-Cola, Zurich and Northern Trust as clients.

Colm Collins has been ratified as manager of the Clare senior footballers and 2020 will mark his seventh year in the position.

Draws, by their very nature, tend to leave us with more questions than answers.

“The James O’Donoghue of three and four years ago would just turn around and kick that ball over the bar with his left foot. He’s not playing with the confidence you’d expect. If he was, he’d have chipped that ball over the bar,” said Oisín McConville, 22 minutes into Kerry’s Super 8 rout of Mayo.

Kerry and Dublin isn’t just a heavyweight duel on the pitch. It’s a muscular collision off it between two global mega-corporations partnering two GAA superpowers, albeit via wholly different business strategies.

The day before the 1982 All-Ireland final, Armagh corner-back Joe Murphy, fresh from a semi-final loss to Kerry, was interviewed by the IrishIndependent about the team going for five in a row.

The forward will be free to play against Dublin after the black card he received against Meath was rescinded.

Clare hurling joint-managers Donal Moloney and Gerry O’Connor are considering seeking a fourth year at the helm, according to Banner County board chairman Joe Cooney, while football boss Colm Collins is to remain in charge for a seventh year.

Perhaps it will be Stephen O’Brien that he follows around Croke Park come Sunday. Or maybe Sean O’Shea if he’s not playing as an inside forward. But whatever task Tyrone’s Conor Meyler is handed this weekend, he will not lack for resilience.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Really? Does extensive knowledge of someone lead to a loss of respect for them? Not this weekend.

Amazing the things you pick up while out and about.

Managing at the top level now a largely thankless task

There was a point midway through the second half on Saturday when this Super 8 game, and any ambitions Kerry held to progress to an All-Ireland semi-final, appeared to be in grave danger of slipping through their fingers.

Fake football was the order of the day in Omagh as the biggest indictment of a Championship format unfit for purpose was served up.

Leaning against the wall outside a bouncing Cork dressing-room, happiness and contentment radiating from the broad smile he’s wearing, Cork U20 captain Peter O’Driscoll conveys his hope that this sensational come-from-behind final victory “will be the start of something”.

Roscommon finished their Super 8s campaign on a positive note with this three-point win over Cork.

John O’Mahony and Conor Mortimer have taken issue with the blame apportioned to goalkeeper David Clarke for Mayo’s restart difficulties.

Ronan McCarthy has taken umbrage with those who class this weekend’s Super 8 fixture between Cork and Roscommon as a dead-rubber.

Embarrassing. A crisis. Unacceptable. And those were the more moderate terms used in the media to describe the state of Cork football just last March following the county’s relegation to Division 3 of the Allianz league.

Coming up this weekend, there are the final four games in the Super 8s as well as the U20 hurling semi-finals to look ahead to.

Tuesday morning, 12 days out from Dublin’s next game in the Championship, and two Ciarán Kilkennys turn up for a media engagement.

With both counties needing a win to be sure of an All-Ireland semi-final place, a sell-out at MacHale Park is anticipated though there will now be almost 6,000 supporters less than hoped.

Last year when Kerry played a Super 8s match in Croke Park, it didn’t exactly fare well in the TV channel-hopping stakes.

The Super 8 series will enter its third and final trial year in 2020 shrouded in doubt, but Kerry forward Stephen O’Brien is full of praise for the increased number of games.

Paul ‘Pillar’ Caffrey, the man who handed Diarmuid Connolly his Championship debut, has admitted the forward’s mid-summer recall was “bizarre, a circus, unreal, a surprise”.

Meath manager Andy McEntee admitted there was a touch of Groundhog Day about his team’s latest nine-point defeat in the Super 8s.

Back from holidays. I’m grand. Yourself?

Leading by a point with 54 minutes played, underdogs Meath had hauled themselves into a winning position against a county they hadn't lost to since 1951.

A come-from-behind second-half effort secured Tyrone their second win of the Super 8s series and, in the process, all but guaranteed themselves an All-Ireland semi-final berth.

It is difficult to keep up with everything happening in the championship with so many big games coming so close together.

They’re an odd couple, no doubt about that, but Diarmuid Connolly and Bernard Brogan have been tangled together in blue for a dozen years now.

Meath coach Colm Nally reckons that the Royal County would be sitting pretty with a win in the Super 8s if Michael Murphy had been playing for them last weekend.

Kildare are on the lookout for a new football manager after Cian O’Neill’s decision to end his four-year involvement with the Lilywhites.

"We cannot ask our teams and supporters to endure another season where our flagship stadium is unavailable to host the games it was built for."

The Newbridge man said his decision was "undoubtedly informed" by the group not always reaching their potential, despite "relative successes".

Kerry defender Paul Murphy has warned that one win will not make their summer and has urged his teammates to build on the foundations they have laid with Sunday’s victory over Mayo.

When Páraic Duffy sat back in his chair and dreamed up the idea of the Super 8s, sun-kissed days like Sunday in Killarney between two evenly matched teams in front of a sell-out crowd must surely have been his wild

A satisfying end to one of the most bizarre weeks ever for Tyrone GAA ended up with a controlled second-half performance, featuring five unanswered scores in a 13-minute period, which proved enough to get them the opening two points of the Super 8s series against Roscommon.