Donegal captain Michael Murphy’s disciplinary record has been wiped clean after he served a one-game suspension last weekend, Croke Park has confirmed.

Jim Gavin took a thinly-veiled swipe at the new championship match regulation which will compel managers to issue a 26-man panel on the Thursday before a game.

Dublin plundered a point with a late Dean Rock goal at Croke Park, robbing Tyrone of a win they looked certain to claim.

Dublin avenged last year’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat, with a five-point win over Donegal at Croke Park tonight.

Jim Gavin has described as “baffling” Central Council’s decision to oppose the introduction of the clock/hooter, having endorsed it last year. 

Here are four players we think could have a breakthrough season in 2015.

Dublin will play old rivals Meath in the Bord na Móna O’Byrne Cup semi-final, with champions Kildare playing the only remaining third level side, DIT in the other last-four tie next weekend.

There was just 8,654 at last weekend’s Allianz FL Division 3 and 4 finals, ensuring that Croke Park was quiet and cavernous all evening.

Cormac Costello pointed from a late free to snatch victory for Dublin in this dogged Cadbury’s All-Ireland U21FC semi-final at O’Moore Park.

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At a get-to-know-you meeting with the media early last year, Jim Gavin revealed Washington Redskins’ three-time Superbowl coach Joe Gibbs was one of his biggest influences.

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Dublin 4-15 Louth 0-10

Dublin's early dominance helped them brush Louth aside in Drogheda and qualify for the Bord na Mona O'Byrne Cup final.

Carlow 1-12 Dublin 3-13

The balls were hardly out of the drum last Saturday evening when Pat Gilroy’s inbox began to swarm with celebratory text messages.

Dublin will aim to record successive provincial titles when they encounter near neighbours Meath in the Electric Ireland Leinster MFC final at Croke Park tomorrow (2pm).

The Dublin senior footballers are injury free ahead of their Leinster SFC semi-final against Wexford at Croke Park next Sunday.

An assured Dublin side turned on the afterburners at just the right time to see off a difficult Roscommon challenge and win the county’s second U-21 All-Ireland crown in three years.

They did not replicate the crushing defeats they inflicted on opponents in the provincial arena, but there was still plenty of merit to and plenty to admire in Dublin’s victory in Saturday’s Cadbury’s All-Ireland U21FC semi-final in Portlaoise.

The Kilkenny team to play Clare in the Allianz Hurling League semi-final at Semple Stadium, Thurles, tomorrow at 2pm shows a number of positional and personnel changes from the side that defeated Galway in their last League outing.

Dublin qualified for their third Leinster Under-21 final in four years with a comprehensive 13-point victory over Westmeath at O’Moore Park in Portlaoise last night.

Dublin bid to build on last week’s victory over champions Wexford when they face Laois in this evening’s Cadbury’s Leinster U21 FCquarter-final at Parnell Park.

SETANTA Ó hAilpín has been handed another opportunity to become an established AFL player after new franchise, Greater Western Sydney selected him in the AFL draft at Homebush yesterday.

Australian Rules club Carlton Blues are hoping to lure young Dublin starlet Ciaran Kilkenny Down Under with the offer of a two-year rookie contract.

AFL club Carlton’s recruitment of underage Gaelic football stars shows no signs of abating.

Tipperary 3-9 Dublin 1-14, Croke Park

THE meeting of Dublin and Tipperary may not have been the final pairing envisaged at the start of the year but they have been the leading exponents in this year’s minor championship and their clash tomorrow carries plenty of intrigue.

RECENT seasons have been defined by the inconsistency of Galway senior hurling sides in the white heat of championship.

DESSIE Farrell was not the only Dublin minor manager in a tense mood as his side sought to scramble a success in last Sunday’s All-Ireland football semi-final against Galway.

DESSIE FARRELL knew this day was coming.

A VERITABLE goal-fest of an All-Ireland minor semi-final but a game won with consummate ease by Dublin who now face Galway in next month’s final, their first in 28 years.

IRRESPECTIVE of the outcome of tomorrow’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final in Croke Park, it will be a novel experience for the winners to have qualified for an All-Ireland decider. Waterford last reached the final in 1992, while Dublin’s wait stretches back to 1983.

THE Blue army may not have been on hand in their droves to witness it but a new era of Dublin dominance may just have been ushered in at Croke Park.

DUBLIN begin their attempt at claiming a unique provincial hurling treble when they contest tomorrow’s minor final against Kilkenny.

KIERAN KILKENNY proved why he is one of the most exciting young talents in the country with a tour de force performance as Dublin swept Kildare aside in last night’s Leinster minor football semi-final.

A CAMPAIGN which began on a low note in mid-April against Waterford has changed dramatically for the Clare minor hurlers.

Clare 0-20 Dublin 2-13