Ballymun Kickhams 0-20 St Vincent’s 1-17 (aet)

Ballymun Kickhams and St Vincent’s will contest the Dublin SFC final after respective semi-final wins over St Jude’s and Ballyboden St Enda’s at Parnell Park last night.

In-form Alan Hubbard says his size shouldn’t count against him playing for Dublin again.

Ballymun Kickhams (Dublin) 1-10 Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-9

Paul Curran will attempt to have his college players released from Sigerson Cup semi-final duty on Friday as he prepares Ballymun Kickhams for their first All-Ireland SFC club final next month.

Most All-Ireland winning sides have their hard luck stories, those players who for one reason or another didn’t walk up the Hogan Stand steps in September.

Ballymun Kickhams 0-11 Portlaoise 0-08

Ballymun Kickhams 1-12 Kilmacud Crokes 0-14

Ballymun Kickhams will aim to end a barren spell of 27 years when they face Kilmacud Crokes in the Dublin SFC final at Parnell Park this evening (7.45pm).

A DUBLIN club has defended its decision to send their U14s to Portugal before last weekend’s Féile tournament.

A Dublin footballer faces special pressures, and will continue to do so until they get the monkey off their back.

Dublin manager Pat Gilroy has opted to streamline his squad with the start of the Leinster Senior Football Championship almost a week away.

IT hadn’t anything close to the same intensity of their last meeting at headquarters but both Dublin and Cork will have learned a lot from Saturday night’s Allianz NFL encounter at Croke Park.

Dublin 3-13, Cork 0-16

Pat Gilroy will give five players their Championship debuts when Dublin begin their title defence against Wexford in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

Mayo 1-19 Dublin 0-14

SATURDAY night in Páirc Uí Rinn was an instructive league exercise that will assist both Conor Counihan and Pat Gilroy when it comes to finalising their championship blueprints.

NFL DIVISION 1:

Dublin 2-11 Monaghan 1-9

Mayo 1-8 Dublin 1-9

Dublin have made five changes in personnel for Sunday's Allianz NFL Division 1 showdown with Mayo at Castlebar (throw-in 2.30pm).

FOR David Henry, the seasons must be starting to blend into one another.

THOUGHTS of last August’s All-Ireland quarter-final will inevitably spring to mind when Kerry and Dublin meet on Sunday, but Pat Gilroy is, understandably, concentrating on the season to come rather than the last.

DUBLIN captain Paul Griffin has declared his opposition to a motion from his own county board that would give a second chance to provincial football champions who lose at the All-Ireland quarter-final stage.

Conal Keaney has confirmed he will concentrate solely on Gaelic football at inter-county level in 2010, ending speculation that the former dual player was about to switch back to hurling.

Dubs Stars 3-13 Dublin 1-10

WE’VE all been there, gazing out at a beautifully manicured pitch, soaking in the atmosphere of the heaving stadium and wondering what it would be like. To be out there.

THE jury is still out on Pat Gilroy’s attempts to inject new blood into a Dublin team that plateaued under Paul Caffrey but no-one can accuse the St Vincent’s clubman of playing it safe.

Dublin manager Pat Gilroy has made three changes to his side for this Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Westmeath at Croke Park.

ALAN BROGAN has admitted that the Dublin attack must improve if the county is to launch a serious bid for honours this summer.

SOONER or later someone is going to assemble a DVD of all the great Dublin-Meath games and, when they do, this particular reel will be one of the first to fall to the editing room floor.

THE times, they are a-changing. Only two years have passed since Dublin and Meath last clashed in the Leinster Championship, but the teams that do so again tomorrow will be radically different entities to the 2007 versions.

IT WAS impossible to avoid that end-of-term feeling around the DCU campus yesterday where the student body was conspicuous by its absence and Pat Gilroy named his first championship side.

Dublin Senior football manager Pat Gilroy has named his inaugural Championship starting 15 for Sunday's Leinster SFC derby encounter with Meath at Croke Park.

Kilmacud Crokes defender Paul Griffin has been named as the captain of the Dublin senior footballers for the 2009 championship campaign.

Dublin senior football manager Pat Girloy is set to reveal next week who will captain the Dublin team for this summer's Championship campaign.

WHEN Paul Caffrey stepped down as Dublin manager last summer, it was hard to escape the feeling he was bringing the curtain down on more than just his own career.

JUST like two years ago, Dublin and Tyrone will meet in Croke Park tonight long after the sun goes down but it was the defeat to the Ulster side on a rain-soaked August afternoon last summer which Barry Cahill points to as his darkest hour in blue.

DUBLIN manager Pat Gilroy has handed debuts to two players for Saturday’s National league Division One tie against Tyrone at Croke Park.