What a way to win a county semi-final over your fierce rivals!

Down 1-18 Antrim 0-14

The bewildering incompetence of county boards, the staggering uselessness of the Official Guide, and the utter insanity of the GAA is always thrown into sharp focus at this time of the year.

When paying tribute to the late Kevin Heffernan, Colm O’Rourke recounted an anecdote which gave a telling insight into the Dublin manager’s brilliance.

It’s hardly surprising Stephen Stack isn’t tempting fate this week by loading up on Austin Stacks at his local bookmakers.

At this time of year, we’re supposed to be entering rugby country for the next while, but really, can a month that hosts so many county finals be more GAA than October?

St Gall’s just edged out Bryansford to claim their sixth FBD Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland football 7s title at a packed Glenalbyn.

Ballinderry Shamrocks 1-13 Glenswilly 2-06

Glenswilly (Donegal) 1-10 St Gall’s (Antrim) 0-10

A leading hurling manager has slammed the Ulster Council as “farcical” after it had to indefinitely postpone the provincial final.

Corofin (Galway) 2-6 St Gall’s (Antrim) 1-8

Back when I met Dave Hopla last March, he told a story which gives an insight into Kobe Bryant.

The potential loss of Jamie Clarke may still be causing shockwaves around Armagh, but David McKenna insists that within Crossmaglen, it’s barely even been mentioned.

Enda McGinley has backed All-Ireland club champions Crossmaglen to make it three in a row.

Kilcoo (Down) 1-09 St Gall’s (Antrim) 0-10

Tempo (Fermanagh) 0-09 St Gall’s (Antrim) 1-15

Tyrone’s hopes of claiming a win in Killarney this weekend have been handed a considerable boost with the news that Stephen O’Neill has been passed fit for the third round All-Ireland qualifier against Kerry.

AN altogether familiar scoreline but the All-Ireland champions’ way of going about it was far from usual.

THE clash of Crossmaglen and St Gall’s at Casement Park yesterday was expected to be a Halloween sparkler but the All-Ireland champions for the past two years served up a damp squib.

THE Blue September Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland 7s final was an all-Down affair and Bryansford prevailed after a cracking game to win the title for the fifth time at Glenalbyn.

WITH a swashbuckling second-half performance on Saturday evening, Down set up a repeat of last year’s All-Ireland SFC final by demolishing Antrim.

Antrim 0-16 Westmeath 1-07

“I’VE not much left to say to ye,” laughed Oisín McConville as he greeted a congregation of journalists at last week’s AIB provincial player awards.

NEMO RANGERS extensive experience of football beyond local borders has seen them collide with plenty outfits around the country.

CLARINBRIDGE attacker Alan Kerins has revealed next month’s All-Ireland SHC final against O’Loughlin Gaels will carry greater significance for the club than their last appearance in the decider nine years ago.

IN this year’s Cork SFC final match programme, Nemo Rangers wing-back Colin O’Brien was the subject of a player profile.

THE fact that Naomh Conaill’s base in Glenties is over two hours from Coalisland’s complex adjacent to Lough Neagh means their Tyrone opponents are a largely unknown force to the men from the west coast of Donegal.

ARMAGH champions Crossmaglen Rangers dumped the reigning Ulster and All-Ireland champions, St. Gall’s, out of the running for successive titles with a brilliant 1-12 to 0-9 point win at Oliver Plunkett Park.

ST Gall’s and Portlaoise are the only two clubs in contention to retain their provincial titles as the action in this year’s AIB All-Ireland Club Championships gets cranked up a few notches in the coming weeks.

THE incredible success story that is St Gall’s continued at Glenalbyn on Saturday, as the All-Ireland club champions added the oneills.com Kilmacud Crokes All-Ireland senior football sevens title to their list of achievements.

St Gall’s (Antrim) 3-9 Bellaghy (Derry) 2-5

TYRONE manager Mickey Harte says he couldn’t contemplate leaving a fully fit Brian Dooher out of his starting 15, even though the Tyrone skipper hasn’t played since last summer.

THEIRS is a dressing room littered with Ulster and All-Ireland medals but Tyrone’s relegation to Division Two has emboldened their critics who are openly wondering whether the team’s once mighty appetite has been sated.

GALWAY hurlers last night cancelled a training session as their mounting injury crisis left them with just 12 fit players a week and a half before the championship opener against Wexford.

IT was meant to be a spring that provided a series of rigorous inter-county tests and offered the perfect platform to build for championship football, but instead Stephen O’Neill found himself in a familiar mode of having to rehabilitate.

ANTRIM attacker Terry O’Neill insists tomorrow’s NFL Division 3 decider carries a massive incentive despite promotion having been secured.

CJ McGourty has become the first player from St Gall's All-Ireland Club Championship-winning side to return to training with the Antrim senior football panel.

THE KERRY management’s desire to employ Marc Ó Sé’s footballing talents in the half-back line gets another trial tomorrow in Tralee, with the youngest of the Gaeltacht brothers selected at right half-back for the clash with Mayo.

ST GALL’S captain Colin Brady believes their All-Ireland club title success will have massive repercussions for Antrim football.

WHEN IS a five-point margin not a five-point margin?

ST GALL’S players have incurred their share of painful losses, but manager Lenny Harbinson believes the lessons learnt from those setbacks were central to their success in yesterday’s All-Ireland Club SFC decider.

AT the time it was a shattering experience, but St Gall’s club final loss four years ago has proven to be a defining moment in their football history.

LET’S be blunt. Yesterday’s All-Ireland club final was a very disappointing affair with few positives for fans of the game of football.