Sport Scientist Ciarán Deely looks at the five areas Jim Gavin and Peter Keane will be focusing on in the run up to next week’s replay.

Dublin selector Declan Darcy accepts the bubble the group have created will be “stress-tested” by the intensifying hype surrounding their achievements and perceived advantages.

Dublin great Barry Cahill reckons the odds of both Jim Gavin and Stephen Cluxton remaining in their positions beyond Sunday’s All-Ireland final are only ‘50-50’.

Some years some titles should be valued that bit more than usual, having been that bit harder earned.

After succeeding Pat Gilroy in late 2012, it is the third extension the five-time All-Ireland SFC winning boss has enjoyed.

Diarmuid Connolly will find the door to Dublin’s dressing-room remains wide open when he returns to Ireland in the coming weeks.

Croke Park Dublin manager Jim Gavin sidestepped questions about five titles in-a-row neatly yesterday, which was hardly surprising.

The two championship spankings Laois handed to Westmeath prior to last Saturday came in 1979 and 1991.

When Ciarán Kilkenny turned his back on Hawthorn and life in the AFL there was a natural inclination to rummage through the impressive statement he released at the time and purr over his love of home and hearth.

When Ciarán Kilkenny turned his back on Hawthorn and life in the AFL there was a natural inclination to rummage through the impressive statement he released at the time and purr over his love of home and hearth.

Tommy Lyons’ time as Dublin manager couldn’t be more removed from Jim Gavin’s tenure. But the Mayo native is in a good place to comment on the brilliance of a man he introduced to inter-county management.

Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today

JIM Gavin recognised the trap even before it had been fully laid.

Jack McCaffrey came off the bench for Dublin in an Allianz league game against Donegal last February and scored 1-1. In a five-point win for the Dubs, his personal haul was crucial and manager Jim Gavin cut a relieved figure afterwards.

Dublin selector Declan Darcy has admitted they face a testing week to select their All-Ireland final team but insisted they won’t be clouded by ‘nostalgia’ when making the big calls.

Cian O’Sullivan may have been helped off the field after Dublin’s semi-final replay victory over Mayo last Sunday, but Jim Gavin was bullish yesterday about the centre-back’s prospects of facing Kerry in the All-Ireland final.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin will not be replacing selector Michael Kennedy, who has stepped down due to work commitments.

Before you say it, before you even think it, there is no conspiracy.

Jim Gavin has played down his role in guiding Dublin to Allianz League and Leinster honours and an All-Ireland SFC final appearance this year, insisting that the free-flowing game-plan they adopt is 'inherited from the Dublin teams that have gone before us'.

Former Dublin manager Tommy Lyons says Cillian O’Connor will become “another Henry Shefflin” if Mayo start him on Sunday.

Dublin legend Ciarán Whelan says the current football panel is their strongest ever, claiming the attacking options are “frightening”.

From the culling fields of the O’Byrne Cup, Jim Gavin yesterday emerged with a slimmed-down Dublin panel.

Leitrim forward Emlyn Mulligan insists he has no plans to declare for the Dublin footballers despite seeking a club transfer to the St Brigid’s club in Blanchardstown.

Eamon McGee doesn’t believe the Football Review Committee (FRC) are out to stop Donegal.

In August, Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman Eugene McGee sent an email to GAA journalists inviting them to make a submission to the group.

At first, their hearts will have skipped a beat or two. But not long after last night’s draw for the 2013 Ulster championship pitted powerhouses Donegal and Tyrone against each other, Jim McGuinness and Mickey Harte will have felt adrenaline course through their veins.

The GAA’s Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman, Eugene McGee, has contested Jim McGuinness’s suggestion that the group was established on foot of Donegal’s 2011 All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin.

All-Ireland-winning Donegal manager Jim McGuinness has questioned the reasoning behind the setting up of the Football Review Committee (FRC).

It looks like Jim Gavin is less than three weeks away from becoming the new Dublin senior football manager.

Jim Gavin’s appointment as the new Dublin senior football manager looks almost a formality after being approached about succeeding Pat Gilroy.

Jim Gavin’s former U21 selector Declan Darcy believes the 1995 All-Ireland winner is the stand-out candidate to succeed Pat Gilroy as Dublin manager.

CLARE boss Micheál McDermott may be able to call on the services of three new recruits for Sunday’s McGrath Cup semi-final against Waterford.

CLARE football boss Micheal McDermott is confident that the GAA’s Central Council will look favourably this weekend on their request to become eligible for the scheme which allows players to declare for the home county of their parents.

CLARE senior football boss Michéal McDermott has secured the services of renowned fitness coach Mike McGurn for the 2011 season.

Anthony Daly, the recently installed Dublin senior hurling manager, has drafted Richard Stakelum and Ciaran Hetherton into his backroom team for his first season in charge.

BECOMING the sixth team from Kerry to qualify for the AIB All-Ireland club final and the first-ever native-speaking combination, represents a monumental achievement for An Ghaeltacht.

THE buntings are in abundance in Blanchardstown this week. The home town club, St Brigid's, are heading to Thurles on Sunday for an AIB All-Ireland club SFC semi-final appointment with the mighty Gaeltacht.

MUNSTER Club football champions An Ghaeltacht will be without their manager Fergal Ó Sé and JJ, Corduff for Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final with St Brigids, Dublin in Thurles.

PADDY CLARKE joked after St Brigid’s impressive victory in Páirc Tailteann yesterday that he could ‘die happy’ after finally getting to coach a winning team in a Leinster football final – almost 30 years after his first attempt!

PADDY CLARKE was in the air, flying to Australia as part of the Irish management for the 2001 International Rules Series, when Brigid’s lost heavily in the Dublin county football final to a Na Fianna side captained by Kieran McGeeney.