The cost of the long-awaited MetroLink project could be substantially higher than the original €3bn figure.

What a dire weekend for GAA attendances. Kerry-Mayo in Austin Stack Park was obviously an exception but across the country there was evidence of supporters preferring to do something else with their Bank Holiday weekend.

Local Fianna Fáil Councillor Paul McAuliffe says he's concerned the National Transport Authority wants to take over a large part of the site for MetroLink works.

Roscommon, the only senior football team yet to confirm a manager for 2019, are hoping to recruit a successor to Kevin McStay from outside the county.

Mayo GAA club delegates rubberstamped James Horan’s return as manager of the county’s senior football team last night.

It isn’t so long since Alan Brogan and others were speculating as to whether Stephen Cluxton’s guardianship of the Dublin nets would stretch past the quiet one’s 40th birthday.

It wasn’t the GAA that coined the phrase ‘Super 8’ — they have the Club Players Association (CPA) to thank for that one. And it wasn’t the GAA that labelled April as club month. But if they aren’t going to fill vacuums others are going to do it for them.

Last year’s beaten finalists, Ballymun Kickhams, got their Dublin SFC campaign up and running on a positive note as they defeated St Brigid’s by 2-13 to 1-10 in their Group 4 clash at Parnell Park on Saturday afternoon.

No club has done more to make Dublin great yet, closer to home, Ballymun Kickhams have done surprisingly little to help themselves.

Eamon Fennell lists out the injuries and setbacks he has experienced in the last two years and straight away you wonder why he’s still playing Gaelic football.

James McCarthy’s eye was bruised like a bad banana but that was only the start of it.

A chequered past, to say the least.

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.

David ‘Dotsy’ O’Callaghan has confirmed his return to the Dublin senior hurling panel after a serious back injury threatened to end his inter-county career.

Dr Crokes (Kerry) 1-9 Slaughtneil (Derry) 1-7: “For 25 years, we’ve tried to come back up those steps,” gushed Dr Crokes captain Johnny Buckley from the Hogan Stand podium. “We’ve had a lot of disappointments but I’m here to say that the Andy Merrigan Cup is coming back to Killarney.”

St Vincent’s 0-12 Ballymun Kickhams 0-11: A 57th minute point from Albert Martin proved decisive as St Vincent’s narrowly defeated Ballymun Kickhams in their absorbing Dublin SFC semi-final at Parnell Park last night.

Of the many things outside Dublin manager Jim Gavin’s control approaching tomorrow’s All-Ireland football final replay, the weather is at the very top of that list.

There was late drama at today's EirGrid All-Ireland U21 football semi-final between Mayo and Dublin at O’Connor Park in Tullamore.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has backed Paul Murphy to shine again at centre-forward, though he accepts that tomorrow’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Donegal in Tralee will represent a different challenge for the Rathmore man than Down did last week.

Aidan Walsh of St Mary’s makes his league debut as Kerry make seven changes for tomorrow’s Allianz FL Division 1 clash with Down at Páirc Esler in Newry (2pm).

Goalkeeper Brian Kelly, Aidan O’Mahony, and Jonathan Lyne are the three inclusions as Kerry opt against wholesale changes for tomorrow’s visit of Roscommon to Fitzgerald Stadium in Division 1 of the Allianz Football League (2pm).

Dean Rock is philosophical about being substituted and accepts it’s a norm in a panel as strong as Dublin’s.

More inter-county Gaelic players will follow the example of Rory O’Carroll and quit the game for a period of time, according to former Dublin full-back Paddy Christie. 

Dublin are set for another trip through the GAA’s appeals process after the county indicated it would contest Philly McMahon’s proposed one-match ban for his part in an incident with Kerry captain Kieran Donaghy during the All-Ireland football final.

Dublin defender Philly McMahon has so far escaped sanction following claims of eye-gouging Kieran Donaghy in the All-Ireland final.

At this stage of the game, with two All-Irelands under his belt, Philly McMahon could have been forgiven for putting himself and his career first.

You come across them from time to time, inter-county Gaelic footballers who aren’t actually that interested in Gaelic football generally, Philly McMahon being a case in point.

Kildare 3-16 Dublin 3-13: A devastating scoring blitz before half-time paved the way for Kildare’s victory over Paddy Christie’s Dublin in yesterday’s Electric Ireland Leinster minor football semi-final at Croke Park.

Jim Gavin described the eight cards shown to Dublin players – one red, five yellow and two black – as "reactionary", hinting that the Kerry footballers influenced referee Eddie Kinsella.

It’s some progress, we suppose, writes Kieran Shannon.

Dublin footballer James McCarthy says the existing GAA season is "a mess" and has to be addressed by the powers-that-be.

His three-year appointment was hailed as Dublin hitting the jackpot by chairman Andy Kettle, but Ger Cunningham’s first public appearance as the county’s senior hurling manager was fairly down to earth.