The homecoming will take place on September 29.

GAA president John Horan has condemned Colm O’Rourke for questioning the presence of Dublin CEO John Costello on the new fixtures calendar review task force.

The Dublin County Board may have to embark on a charm offensive if they want Mattie Kenny to take over from Pat Gilroy as their senior hurling manager.

Dublin coach Anthony Cunningham believes the talent of the up-and-coming players in the panel trumps that of their senior colleagues.

The fundraising organisation founded two years ago to provide additional resources for the Cork senior footballers is to be renamed and relaunched in the coming weeks, with a new, wider-ranging brief.

“If everyone’s individual vote was out there in the public domain, it would be an invitation for all sorts of people to attack them like the keyboard warriors and the Twitterati.”

Europe GAA chairman Tony Bass stands by his Congress comments about the Club Players Association (CPA), insisting the GAA is best placed to address clubs’ concerns.

Here’s the future: The GAA will put more of its highest-profile inter-county championship matches behind a paywall this summer.

So Dublin is not to be divided for GAA purposes?

Monday night’s meeting of the Cork County Board wasn’t solely concerned with the future of long-serving secretary Frank Murphy.

Monday night’s meeting of the Cork County Board wasn’t solely concerned with the future of long-serving secretary Frank Murphy.

Dublin and Mayo were the two biggest spending inter-county set ups last year, clocking up over €3m in bills between them. That’s a lot of rubs and grub, writes Tony Leen. 

Here's your lunchtime news bulletin.

Ger Cunningham has confirmed he has stepped down from his role as Dublin hurling manager after nearly three years in the position, writes Ciara Phelan.

The Dublin hurling camp is “totally disgusted” at being forced to play Tipperary in their own backyard this Saturday, writes Eoghan Cormican.

The Dublin hurling camp is “totally disgusted” at being forced to play Tipperary in their own backyard this Saturday.

A chequered past, to say the least.

Diarmuid Connolly will find it “extremely difficult” to overturn his 12-week suspension following mention of his brush with linesman Ciarán Branagan in the referee’s report, according to Joe Brolly.

Brian Cody will mark 19 years in charge of Kilkenny’s senior hurling team after he was confirmed as manager for 2017 following a meeting of the county board in Nowlan Park last night.

There was very little to raise the collective pulse of the 11,000-plus spectators at Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney last Sunday… well, besides when the stadium announcer called out the half-time score from Semple Stadium.

You probably heard about the Chinese women last week — the runners who beat Sonia O’Sullivan out of gold medals in the World Championships held back in 1993, the ones who supposedly subsisted on turtle blood to set astonishing records in distance running.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin said it is up to all counties to go to Croke Park in search of their own funding with a business plan in hand like Dublin have done.

Dublin GAA secretary John Costello has accused Croke Park top brass of behaving like Ebeneezer Scrooge after their request for a share of the gate receipts from the Dublin-Mayo All-Ireland semi-final replay yielded the “princely sum” of €7,500.

Dublin Board chairman Sean Shanley confirmed there will be no further appeals following the reduction to €6,500 of their fine for July’s infamous challenge match brawl with Armagh.

Dublin chairman Sean Shanley says Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney’s claim that they are more physical than northern teams is laughable.

A couple of months ago we broke a story here about the GAA’s plans to cut funding to the Dublin County Board, something which even now is exercising minds in the capital.

Widely-respected Dublin County Board chairman Andy Kettle died yesterday, aged 68 after a long illness.

Munster GAA chiefs are planning to change the division of gate revenue among counties in the Munster championship.

Former Dublin minor and U21 manager Shay Boland is in line to replace Anthony Daly as senior boss, the Irish Examiner understands.

Dublin County Board have expressed their determination to crown Anthony Daly’s successor by the end of this month.

Anthony Daly has stepped down as down as Dublin senior hurling manager after six years in charge.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has revealed Dublin will not be the only county hit with a reduction in central funding.

Welcome to your Thursday morning briefing. Let us ensure you’re up to speed on what’s happening and are prepared for the day ahead.

In the wake of Donegal manager Jim McGuinness’s comparison of Dublin GAA with Chelsea under Russian tycoon Roman Abramovich, it has emerged that the GAA is considering a reduction in the funding made available to the Dublin County Board for coaching in the capital.

Dublin footballer Eoghan O’Gara is in the clear after disciplinary chiefs opted not to pursue allegations of biting during Sunday’s Leinster football final.