Former Dublin defender Ger Brennan believes the All-Ireland holders have grown too cautious and need to rekindle their spirit of ‘adventure’ to beat Mayo at the second attempt.

All-Ireland final preview special featuring Barry Cahill, Paul Clarke and Eugene Lavin.

Barry Cahill spent enough time with Rory Gallagher on the Old Navan Road during the 2000s to know he has something planned for Dublin on Saturday.

Barry Cahill believes Paddy Andrews’ fine performance against Mayo in last Saturday week’s semi-final replay has given Eamonn Fitzmaurice something extra to think about on Sunday.

By Peter O'Dwyer

It’s a safe bet to say Paul Galvin and the Cork footballers agreed on very little over the years.

Dublin forward Paddy Andrews was in danger of becoming a nearly man of the inter-county scene.

Former All-Ireland SFC winner Barry Cahill has decided to call time on his inter-county football career after 11 years in the Dublin jersey.

She may be the fastest woman in Ireland but sprint champion Ailís McSweeney was fashionably late for her wedding yesterday.

Kilmacud Crokes and Ballymun Kickhams meet in next Monday’s Dublin SFC final after semi-final wins over St Brigid’s and St Jude’s, respectively, in Parnell Park yesterday.

Three weeks ago I watched Dublin labour to an unimpressive four-point win over Wexford.

He’s different, we’ll give him that.

Twelve players from Dublin's victorious 2011 All-Ireland final team will start against Louth at Croke Park on Sunday (throw-in 4.30pm).

Pat Gilroy insists missing out on the Division 1 semi-finals won’t be a setback for Dublin.

Dublin manager Pat Gilroy has reacted to his team's poor showing against Mayo by making wholesale changes for Sunday's Allianz Football League final round clash with Cork.

Mayo 0-20 Dublin 0-8

Tipperary footballers are about to suffer a devastating pre-championship blow with the news star forward Barry Grogan is on the verge of moving to the US for work purposes.

Down 0-15 Dublin 1-10

KIERAN McGEENEY doesn’t see any reason why Kildare would support a proposal to bring forward the Bord na Mona O’Byrne Cup final.

THE GPA have reiterated their support for the introduction of payment to inter-county managers and insisted that they believe the findings of a survey at the end of 2009, thatrevealed almost 70% of its playing members are in support of such a scheme, are still relevant.

DUBLIN will be weakened by the loss of both Brogan brothers, Alan and Bernard, for their high profile Allianz Football League opener against old rivals Kerry in under three weeks.

EIGHT players who featured for Dublin in the All-Ireland SFC final win over Kerry are included in Pat Gilroy’s squad for tomorrow’s Bord Na Mona O’Byrne Cup first round clash.

Dublin manager Pat Gilroy will not name his team until just before throw-in for Sunday's Bord na Móna O'Byrne Cup opener against Carlow at Dr Cullen Park.

Garrycastle 1-8 St Brigid's 0-10

THE fall before the rise. The trough that preceded the peak.

DECEMBER football doesn’t enjoy the most enviable of reputations but the Dublin and Laois champions made light of the heavy and Baltic conditions yesterday to deliver one of the best games seen in the last 12 months.

St Brigid's (Dublin) 2-16 Portlaoise (Laois) 1-15 (aet), Parnell Park

DUBLIN may be the capital city but it’s a small one by European standards and the county’s footballers have begun to realise that in the wake of their first All-Ireland senior football title in 16 years.

A SIX point victory hid a multitude of St Brigid’s sins as the Dublin champions turned in a storming finale to book their Leinster Club SFC semi-final spot at Parnell Park, Dublin, yesterday.

CLASS easily overcame courage in Navan where the quality of Dublin champions St Brigid’s shone through to secure a Leinster club SFC quarter-final spot.

WHEN Gerry McEntee strides out to patrol the Páirc Táilteann sideline tomorrow it will be a homecoming in more ways than one.

IT was billed as the crowning moment of a sensational season for the Brogan brothers but, in the end, a little known substitute for St Brigid’s stole the show.

DUBLIN GAA chief Andy Kettle has admitted ‘Plan B is thin on the ground’ if Pat Gilroy doesn’t agree to stay on tonight.

IT doesn’t get more local than this.

ST BRIGID’S manager Mark Byrne conceded he thought his team were dead and buried at half-time of this Dublin SFC semi-final on Saturday.

BRYAN CULLEN yesterday became only the third All-Ireland winning captain since the turn of the last decade not to be selected as an All Star nomination.

IN a most remarkable gesture of sportsmanship, Tomás Ó Sé handed Stephen Cluxton the match-winning ball following yesterday’s final whistle.

CROKE PARK had already disgorged most of its patrons onto the streets of the northside when some stewards walked out to the centre of the pitch and asked Bernard Brogan and three of his colleagues if they wouldn’t mind moving on.

DOG years. That’s what they are. The seasons when Kerry go without.

EYEBROWS were raised in the GAA and in Dublin in particular when Pat Gilroy was appointed as Dublin manager for the 2009 season.

IN this year’s league game, Marc Ó Sé kept Bernard Brogan under lock and key up until second-half injury-time when the Dublin forward scored the winning point.