The short-term focus for Éamonn Fitzmaurice is tomorrow’s visit of Clare. The long-term focus is getting back to Croke Park to atone for the catalogue of Dublin defeats which have been accumulating.

Tomás Ó Sé has revealed he placed money on Mayo to win this year’s All-Ireland title as soon as Stephen Rochford and his backroom team was confirmed.

History of a sort was made this week when the All Star football nominations appeared for the first time in 10 years without the name ‘Brogan’ attached, but Bernard Brogan believes only one of the famous Dublin siblings has cause to be aggrieved.