The Cork footballers must be “streetwise” and “patient” during Saturday’s must-win Super 8 tie against Tyrone, a fixture which selector Sean Hayes has described as the “game of our lives”.

Sinead Aherne recorded an outstanding haul of 3-3 at the DCU Sportsgrounds to guide Dublin towards an emphatic victory over Monaghan in Division 1 of the Lidl National Football League.

It’s a good job Dublin don’t execute the perfect performance every time they play. For if they did, the umpires would be going to the UU (Umpire Union) looking for better T&C’s.

My issue with the Star Wars phenomenon isn’t centred on what it, and other movies of its time, did to the interesting grown-up films of the seventies (i.e., got rid of them as a mainstream alternative to such modern nonsense as those Marvel films), writes Michael Moynihan.

At underage, the Derry house looks in pretty good nick. It might have taken a few years to furnish, but they got there in the end.

Dublin got their physicality and hurling to the pitch required to see off Galway last weekend, albeit in Parnell Park. Cork, however, did not throw down the gauntlet to Waterford, apart from the last 10 minutes.

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

Blanket defence still frustrates brilliant Blues

Former Footballer of the Year Alan Brogan insists he won’t be happy to sit on the bench for Dublin this summer.

Stephen Cluxton is among six changes to the Dublin side for tonight’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Tyrone in Croke Park (7pm).

Cork hurling boss Jimmy Barry-Murphy is to remain in charge of the Leesiders for a further two years, it was confirmed tonight.

By Peter O’Dwyer

A leading GAA official has suggested that all sponsorship money raised by county boards should be pooled and divided proportionally, to avoid Dublin’s development as a superpower that will never be toppled.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy says Dublin’s Spring Series will go ahead in 2014.

They have a name for it in Hollywood, of course, where there’s a name for everything: the non-recurring phenomenon.

Antrim 1-10 Dublin 3-12

Allianz FL Division 1: Kildare v Dublin

Kerry 0-04 Dublin1-11

Dublin 0-16 Dubs Stars 1-11

Dublin’s senior footballers’ All-Ireland run and win last year helped the firm behind Dublin nightclub Copper Face Jacks to increase pre-tax profits by 5% to €6.8m, new figures show.

With the All Star footballers flying into New York today for the first time since 1990, it’s worth going back to the first trip in 1975 which involved a unique exhibition remembered with affection around here.

It is fair to say that if Dublin progress to their second successive All-Ireland final, then the exploits of dual player Cormac Costello will have had a huge bearing on their success.

Kilkenny 2-21 Dublin 0-9

Dublin legend Brian Mullins says the All-Ireland champions’ greatest challenge in defending their crown is a mental one.

Cork 1-12 Dublin 0-12

PAT GILROY was keen to play down the significance of Dublin’s early morning training as they overcame Carlow in their Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup opener at Dr Cullen Park.

ALL-IRELAND winning Dublin manager Pat Gilroy caused some surprise by confirming he won’t be replacing his retired deputy Mickey Whelan.

LAST month, this page was soaked in the jet of hubris thrown up by Dublin’s big Blue Wave — a strategy document that turned neatly in the ignition of old begrudgery.

DUBLIN will celebrate their All-Ireland victory with a homecoming event at Merrion Square this evening.

BERNARD BROGAN believes Dublin’s All-Ireland semi-final slugfest against Donegal was the strangest game he’d ever played in.

Dublin 0-08 Donegal 0-06

BRIAN McENIFF has crunched the numbers and come up with a bottom line figure, 14 points.

Dublin 3-13 Limerick 0-18

WINNING silverware is rarely straightforward and Dublin can certainly attest to that after dragging themselves over the winning line to claim a 13th Leinster MHC title at Croke Park yesterday.

Dublin 2-21 Offaly 1-20, Croke Park

Cork coach Conor Counihan is demanding his All-Ireland champions show the same level of desire as Dublin in the league final at Croke Park on Sunday, throw-in 4pm.

REGIME change in hurling?

SOME of you may have noticed a pretty distinctive-looking character on the Dublin football team in recent weeks.