Mayo manager Stephen Rochford says he “doesn’t really care” why he and his players seem to attract criticism on a regular basis.

There is everything to play for now but you’ll probably be able to tell from the warm-ups in Nowlan Park and the Gaelic Grounds who is up for this the most, writes Anthony Daly. 

Mayo’s dramatic late comeback against Dublin last Sunday will count for nothing if they fail to win Saturday’s replay.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy has strengthened his Cork team significantly for Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League semi-final against Dublin with switches in defence and attack.

Spurred on by a Conor Cosgrove goal in the opening minute, Garrycastle qualified for the final of the Westmeath SFC with a 1-14 to 0-6 win against Coralstown/Kinnegad at Cusack Park.

At half-time of what is by now the legendary 2011 Dublin-Donegal semi-final, this writer fell into conversation with another from Ulster [not Donegal].

Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s ruthlessness is a primary reason behind why Kerry are "punching above their weight", says Bernard Flynn.

Tipperary football chairman Joe Hannigan last night hailed the new Munster senior football championship as "the most equitable option."

Only those who were in Crossmaglen on June 26 2010 can fully appreciate what Jim McGuinness achieved the following season.

Nearly 50,000 people in North Cork will benefit from a service which will give them an increased chance of surviving heart attacks and strokes.

In the end it was no more than a rehearsal but that didn’t stop some reviewing the black card’s debut like it was its opening weekend.

Former Dublin manager Tommy Carr criticised the current lack of involvement of players from Meath’s glory era of the 1980s and ’90s and said other counties’ weakness should not be an excuse to split Dublin.

At the end of Kerry’s ‘Golden Years’ era in 1986, the next four All-Ireland football championships were shared by Meath and Cork — the significance being that the Royals had been as good as wiped out in Leinster over the preceding 15 years, while the Rebels managed to escape the clutches of Kerry just once in 12 Munster final meetings.

Twenty-one years on, the extraordinary four match saga involving Dublin and Meath in the first round of the Leinster senior football championship occupies an honoured place in GAA folklore.

The Gaelic Match Officials Association (GMOA) have released details of their own respect campaign for referees, linesmen and umpires.

Bernard Flynn has attacked the standard of refereeing in this year’s football championship and claimed some officials have cost teams games.

Former Meath selector, Paul Grimley, fully expects Seamus McEnaney to be axed as manager tomorrow night but insists he would act just as defiantly as Banty.

Some of Ireland’s favourite sporting heroes from the world of rugby, soccer, hurling and Gaelic football will be in Ballyroe Heights Hotel, Tralee tomorrow night to help raise funds for the Paul Curran Cancer Trust.

GRAHAM GERAGHTY believes Meath manager Seamus McEnaney should be judged on his achievements this season and not on the controversies of last year.

The Meath GAA Management Committee have requested that Seamus McEnaney nominates two new selectors from within the county.

SEAMUS McENANEY is expected to have just one selector, Armagh’s Paul Grimley, for Sunday week’s Leinster SFC quarter-final against Kildare.

ARMAGH captain Steven McDonnell defended his team in the wake of heavy criticism following their four-point defeat to Kerry on Sunday.

GAA chiefs have moved to address drops in attendances at provincial championship games by opting to cut the number of live televised matches by an annual figure of 20% for the next four years.

MEATH are bracing themselves for a huge GAA backlash following confirmation last night that they will not offer a re-match to Louth in the wake of Sunday’s controversial Leinster SFC final climax.

LOUTH won the three-day GAA Legends All-Ireland golf charity event at La Cala Resort in Spain.

OVER €50,000 was raised for various charities nationwide by the second annual GAA Legends Golf Charity Inter-Shield Championship held recently in La Cala in Spain.

Former Meath All-Ireland-winning footballer Bernard Flynn believes that the Royal County footballers needed a league game against Cork - in order to strengthen Colm Coyle's youthful side.

ON THIS the fourth day of July, 2006, a happy Independence Day to any American friends out there; also, commiserations to our friends from across the pond on their elimination from the World Cup.

RTÉ will screen over 40 live hurling and football championship matches this season.