While some people will really savour the prospect of a ‘traditional’ final between Dublin and Kerry — I’m not one of them.

When Paddy McConigley was growing up kicking football for his local Fanad Gaels club at Triaghalough in north-west Donegal, little did he know where the wind on the gusty peninsula would take him.

Longford GAA chiefs are on the hunt for a new senior football manager after Jack Sheedy resigned the post on Tuesday night.

Eamonn Kelly has cited travel and other hurling commitments as the reasons for his decision to step down as Kerry manager after two seasons.

Galway 1-11 Derry 0-8

Conor Lane came in for a lot of criticism from Derry manager Brian McIver after Saturday’s qualifier against Galway. Was it with justification?

Former Galway star Paul Clancy knows a fair bit about beating Derry sides in championship action having been involved in both Galway’s 1998 and 2001 All-Ireland winning sides that defeated the Ulster men in All-Ireland semi-finals.

Donegal 1-9 Derry 0-10: If it was hardly intriguing, it was tight. Mercifully. Because in truth, Saturday’s Ulster SFC semi final in Clones had little else going for it as a spectacle.

Peter McNamara assesses the live matches this weekend.

The night they returned to Donegal Town having reclaimed the Anglo-Celt Cup last July, Eamon McGee was content on the peripheries.

Like many from his hometown of Killybegs, Hugh McFadden was often hop-scotching between soccer and Gaelic games.

Former Derry All-Star footballer Paddy Bradley has lashed out at manager Brian McIver ahead of the county’s crucial Ulster championship semi-final against Donegal on Saturday.

The lid was flipped. The usually unruffled Brian McEniff had blown his right off.

Derry 0-12 Down 0-11: When a team hasn’t won in a while, it can forget how to, and in the second half at Celtic Park yesterday, Derry were certainly struggling with the concept of victory.

Monaghan. March 3, 2012. A turning point in Chrissy McKaigue’s career.

Two minutes before half-time in the 2011 Ulster semi-final, Tyrone ripped through the blanket and Brian McGuigan fed Stephen O’Neill, who cut inside two Donegal defenders.

The outcome of Sunday’s full-times in Croke Park confirmed it will be at least eight seasons since an Ulster team last won a Division 1 title. No province has been more faithful to the competition but its top counties are learning the lessons of prolonged campaigns.

“No”. Jim Gavin is usually more generous with his words but when he was asked last month if Dublin would be tempted to join others and adopt a blanket defence he felt he didn’t need to elaborate.

Back in the day when I believed that politics could improve the lot of the common man, I used to be enthralled by the British general election, writes Paddy Heaney.

There is a train in India that travels between Mumbai to Delhi, you’ve probably seen it in an old movie at some point.

The blanket defence, the bane of Cork’s 2014, came back to bite them in Owenbeg yesterday, but Brian Cuthbert wasn’t getting overly worried about his side’s attacking performance.

Derry 2-15 Cork 1-11: Maybe football isn’t dead at all.

Former Galway manager John McIntyre has predicted that his successor Anthony Cunningham is unlikely to remain in charge of the Tribesmen for much longer.

Liam Sammon ventured into a well-known GAA pub in Killarney on Saturday evening to catch the Dublin-Derry league encounter.

Derry manager Brian McIver last night claimed Kerry have provided the greatest example to teams that the best way of countering defensive systems is to mirror them.

Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin says recently-appointed playing rules committee chairman Jarlath Burns was wrong to describe Saturday’s Dublin-Derry game as “the death of Gaelic football”.

Monaghan 0-15, Derry 0-10:

Brian McIver said he was "disgusted" with the performance of referee Ciaran Branagan after Derry’s defeat by Mayo.

Derry 1-13, Mayo 2

Referee David Coldrick could be at the centre of a second derogatory comments case after Brian McIver’s post-match interviews in Omagh on Saturday.

Derry were denied a first NFL win of the season by Tyrone’s late surge at Healy Park.

Peter McNamara evaluates the four Allianz NFL Division 1 ties scheduled for this weekend and who we can expect to win.

Prior to yesterday Eamonn Fitzmaurice knew what it was like to guide Kerry teams to semi-final victories in the months of July and September, but he had never known the feeling that came with county successes in February.

Allianz FL Division 1 Round 2: Derry 0-13 Kerry 1-17: You might think there are few worlds left for Kerry’s footballers to conquer, but this was a day of firsts for the county team.

Tommy Walsh will make his first start for Kerry since the 2009 All-Ireland SFC final when he lines out at midfield against Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday (2pm).

Donegal 1-15 Derry 0-12: Allianz Football League Division 1: When Rory Gallagher was appointed Donegal manager on Halloween night, the All-Ireland final loss to Kerry was still fresh in his players’ thoughts.

Donegal got their Division 1 campaign and Rory Gallagher's reign off to a winning start with a storming second half that swatted Derry aside at Ballybofey tonight.

The semi-final line-up in the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup has been confirmed following the completion of the remaining weather-affected Round Three ties.

McKenna Cup

Eoin Bradley will make a dramatic return to the Derry squad next season after getting a surprise recall by Brian McIver.

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte says he will have a more "hands-on" role in training his senior football squad next season.

The battle to become Galway senior hurling manager next season has been cut to a two-horse race between current manager Anthony Cunningham and his former selector and coach Mattie Kenny.