We're not sure exactly how much of this game Michael Darragh Macauley will remember and, in truth, that shouldn't bother the Dublin great too much.

Your guide to all the weekend's main GAA fixtures

Thomas Davis and Ballyboden St Enda’s will contest this year’s Dublin Senior Football Championship final, after semi-final wins over Kilmacud Crokes and St Jude’s, respectively, at Parnell Park on Saturday evening.

It’s the unspoken fear among conservative Meath supporters this week, that their team could be mowed down in Sunday’s Leinster final, leaving their summer in ruins.

A documentary comparing the current cardiac scoring of the Down and Meath panels that faced off in the 1991 All-Ireland final has saved a number of lives.

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.

The hurlers of Ballyhale Shamrocks are back on the road.

A little over a week out from the Dublin county final with Kilmacud Crokes, Anthony Daly sat down with reporters for over half an hour and talked hurling.

St Jude’s manager Padraic Monaghan pinpointed a powerful second-quarter showing as a crucial factor in his side’s stunning success over St Vincent’s in the Dublin SFC at Parnell Park yesterday.

After a decade of suffering, Galway football supporters are beginning to believe again.

Cian O’Callaghan might be talking up Na Piarsaigh to lower their guard, just hours out from an AIB All-Ireland club hurling final.

Castleknock, St Brigid’s and Ballymun Kickhams all advanced to the quarter-finals of the Dublin Senior Football Championship with wins over St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh, Thomas Davis and St Mary’s Saggart, respectively, on Saturday.

Dublin need only a point on Sunday to seal a fifth straight Division 1 final appearance. 

Club players are treated shabbily in the GAA and, according to Paul Rouse, no leadership will be provided from Croke Park in respect of the development of a proper programme of club matches

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.

Dual star Seamus Kennedy is primed to make his senior hurling debut for Tipperary in Sunday’s Munster quarter-final against Cork at Semple Stadium.

Transplant the final Division 1 table to this time next year when semi-finals will be a thing of the past and there would be no equivocation — for the first time in 30 years, Dublin and Kerry would contest a Division 1 final.

Senior panellist Con O'Callaghan starred again for Dublin with 1-7 but Cillian O'Shea was the game breaker in Navan with a vital late goal to secure a three-in-a-row of EirGrid Leinster U-21 football titles.

Today, in Portlaoise, former Tipperary coach Paudie O’Neill will have divided loyalties, part of his heart lying with both Clonmel Commercials and Ballyboden St Enda’s. As always, he’ll see the big picture, the health of the game. As he must in his role as chairman of the Hurling Development Committee.

Late last night, Paul Durcan arrived into Dublin from the Middle East.

Former Footballer of the Year Michael Darragh Macauley insists he’s “not ready to be a super-sub just yet”, despite being axed by All-Ireland champions Dublin for the first time in his career.

David O’Callaghan hopes Dublin hurling manager Ger Cunningham will stay within the county when naming the new members of his backroom team.

In his glittering 31-game Championship career with Dublin, Michael Darragh Macauley has experienced defeat just four times, three of those coming in All-Ireland semi-finals.

It was a homecoming without the embracing comforts that home promises.

CONNACHT SFC QUARTER-FINAL:

Newly crowned All-Ireland Club SFC champions St Vincents will take on Africa’s first GAA team this weekend.

Two-time All Star Richie Power is back in training with Kilkenny after an extended break from the panel.

ALLIANZ HL DIVISION 1A:

Mount Leinster Rangers manager Tommy Mullally believes Oulart-the-Ballagh’s poor Leinster final record will ensure the Wexford champions will take little for granted in Sunday’s provincial hurling final.

Carlow captain Edward Coady believes Central Council were correct not to return Cork to Division 1.

Mount Leinster Rangers 1-17 Ballyboden St Enda’s 3-9

Johnny McCaffrey is set to continue as the captain of the Dublin senior hurling team for 2013.

Step into the entrance hall at Stackstown Golf Club in the foothills of the Dublin mountains, turn to your right, and on the wall across from the ‘Harrington Room’, an impressive homage to Pádraig’s career achievements, hangs a giant frame.

BASED on his experiences with Liam Dunne in Oulart-the-Ballagh, discipline is the vital ingredient the new Wexford manager will bring to the inter-county fold, argues Keith Rossiter.

NEWLY appointed Wexford senior hurling manager Liam Dunne can expect a warm welcome from his fellow-managers in Leinster next year, but, says Dublin’s Anthony Daly, he can also expect something of a culture shock.

DUBLIN champions Ballyboden St Enda’s qualified for the Leinster Club SHC semi-final with a hard-earned two-point victory over Westmeath champions Clonkill in Cusack Park, Mullingar, yesterday.

An MRI scan on the injuries Conal Keaney sustained in a traffic accident this morning have shown up cruciate ligament damage.