Anyone seeking evidence on the obsession for strength and conditioning which has swept through the GAA should have been at a seminar in Belfast.

Dublin great Jimmy Keaveney has tipped the present team to double the All-Ireland tally of the great 1970s side he played in.

The number of black cards issued during this year’s All-Ireland senior football championship and national league reached 163, an increase of 12% on the 2014 figure.

On Monday night I brought my two small boys down town in Tralee to take a look at the most dreaded aspect of losing an All-Ireland final for the players – the homecoming. The dark grey weather matched the sombre mood on the streets and in the second bus.

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Rookie Dublin midfielder Brian Fenton has revealed how he remembered his late mother, Marian, and Dublin GAA stalwart Dave Billings amid emotional scenes on All-Ireland final day.

Former Monaghan and Meath manager Seamus McEnaney has called for the introduction of a countdown clock in football when teams are awarded a scorable free.

Putting a retractable roof on Croke Park is not a feasible option in countering the inclement weather which spoilt Sunday’s football final, according to Stadium Director Peter McKenna.

A member of the GAA’s Disputes Resolution Authority panel that cleared Dublin star Diarmuid Connolly to play in the All-Ireland semi-final replay has broken ranks and issued his own rebuttal of the decision.

Having showcased their footballing flair on Sunday to claim the Sam Maguire, Dublin’s footballers tapped into other talents last night on their victory parade.

Donnchadh Walsh has become the first of Kerry’s thirtysomethings to publicly make themselves available for next season. Touted for his first All-Star, the Cromane man, who is 32 next summer, confirmed he hopes to be lining out in the green and gold again in 2016.

Dublin’s Denis Bastick has revealed how car thieves made him feel ‘invaded’ in his own home just days before Sunday’s All-Ireland football final.

Attendances at this year’s All-Ireland hurling and football championships reached 1,448,560, an increase of 9.2% on the 2014 figure.

In the cold light of day, neither management team will be entirely happy with their team’s showing in Sunday’s final, but Eamonn Fitzmaurice will be perplexed by his side’s lack of performance on the big day.

False modesty may be something Jim Gavin can occasionally leave himself open to being accused of, but no such thing is at play when he insists that Kevin Heffernan’s team of the 70s will always hold pride of place in the Dublin football pantheon.

Eamonn Fitzmaurice will continue as Kerry senior football manager into 2016.

Former Munster forward Niall Ronan has called on the GAA to ban Philly McMahon for an alleged eye-gouging incident in Sunday’s All-Ireland final.

Having showcased their footballing flair on Sunday to claim the Sam Maguire, Dublin’s footballers tapped into other talents last night on their victory parade.

Teddy McCarthy has claimed he was treated ‘like some bowsie in a nightclub’ when attempting to enter Croke Park on Sunday - the former dual star a notable absentee from the 1990 Cork jubilee team presented to the crowd prior to the All-Ireland football decider.

IF IT wasn’t so serious the irony would be delicious. Two legal eagles shooting down a ban, which had been upheld by the GAA’s three main disciplinary arms, largely on the basis that an All-Ireland semi-final means more than most games.

The publication of the Disputes Resolution Authority’s decision to rescind Diarmuid Connolly’s red card earlier this month has laid bare a major rift between the tribunal panel which oversaw the case.

Sunday’s All-Ireland football final was indicative of the summer’s championship; promised much, delivered little. Joe Kernan, Colman Corrigan, John O’Leary and Seamus McEnaney reflect on a disappointing year for football and suggest what corrective surgery must be embarked on ahead of 2016...

Dublin defender Philly McMahon has come out fighting in the face of All-Ireland final eye-gouging accusations, insisting he didn’t do it and stating he doesn’t ‘give a s**t’ what his critics think.

“They were treating me like I was some bowzy in a nightclub.”

Fitzmaurice says all of his players are fit enough to continue too, if they choose to do so.

GAA fans have gathered in Dublin to welcome home the 2015 All Ireland Football Champions.

Yesterday's All-Ireland Football final was the most watched show on Irish television so far this year.

“What happens on the pitch stays on the pitch. We shook hands and that was the end of it.”

"They can look different from angles. Okay, his hand is probably in somewhere where it shouldn't be."

JIM Gavin quickly shot down comparisons between this current Dublin group and those from the glittering era of the 1970s.

So there we have it, another season finishes with Dublin as All-Ireland champions...

Dublin’s James McCarthy hit out at the team’s detractors who referred to them as “cowards”, “chokers” and “bottlers” after last year’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Donegal.

Dublin 0-12 Kerry 0-9: Back in February, Paul Flynn made a daring comment about last season. Despite finishing a distant second to runners-up Donegal in an All-Ireland semi-final, he was adamant about who he felt were the finest outfit in 2014. And he wasn’t talking about Kerry.

Dublin and Kerry were expecting a good deal from their marquee forwards yesterday — the Diarmuid Connolly-Bernard Brogan axis in sky blue, and the threat posed by Colm Cooper and James O’Donoghue in the Kerry corners. In keeping with the result, Dublin got more value from their offensive threats than the Kingdom.

“Out-thought, outworked, and outfought,” conceded Éamonn Fitzmaurice.

A day from the heavens alright, if not from football’s gods. They’ve been especially stingy in 2015.

Is it possible that people have ran out of things to say about Dublin v Kerry? Even on Up for the Match, where the tolerance for cliché is high, they looked a touch jaded by it all.

Cian O’Sullivan. He’s playing but is he fit? Will he last the match? Will he even last the first half? Eeek.

As always after an All-Ireland final, the stories come out bit by bit. The personal challenges. The obstacles that have been overcome.

MY favourite memory of 2002, Armagh’s season in the sun, is the semi-final victory over Dublin and in particular the singing of Amhrán na bhFiann.

Michael Darragh Macauley wasn’t wearing comparisons with the great Dublin teams of the seventies after yesterday’s win over Kerry — ‘we’re nowhere near those boys’ was his take on how the current Dublin team compare with Heffo’s Dubs.

I know I’m not alone when I say this All-Ireland final was far from a classic as you could possibly imagine.

In the end, it’s another Sam Maguire for Dublin as Kerry get the blues.

Paul Flynn and Ciaran Kilkenny were to the fore in a deserving All-Ireland final victory for Dublin, their third in five seasons and second under Jim Gavin in three seasons.