The 1983 All-Ireland football final is famous for many things. The glut of sending-offs, the appalling weather, the ultimate success of the 12 apostles/dirty dozen.

When paying tribute to the late Kevin Heffernan, Colm O’Rourke recounted an anecdote which gave a telling insight into the Dublin manager’s brilliance.

It’s hard not to get nostalgic as a Cork person in a week such as this, but it doesn’t necessarily mean getting all romantic either.

Hugh Gill is philosophical about the likelihood of St Vincent’s run to Monday’s All-Ireland Club SFC final putting him in the window for a return to the Dublin panel.

A leading Dublin GAA official has flatly rejected Kildare secretary Kathleen O’Neill’s call for the pooling of individual county board sponsorship deals.

Irish Sports Council chairman Kieran Mulvey describes his role as the ‘best appointment in Irish public life’. But it is not without its challenges.

There are some who call the ’70s the decade that taste forgot, all too conveniently overlooking the fact that it gave us David Bowie in his prime, Horslips in their pomp and, from glam rock to punk rock, a feast of plenty to bookend the decade on Top Of The Pops.

GAA rivalry has long pitted parish against parish and turned county against county, but it was impossible to distinguish friend from foe at the funeral of Dublin football hero Kevin Heffernan.

As Kevin Heffernan’s coffin left the Church of St Vincent de Paul on Dublin’s Griffith Avenue yesterday, a spontaneous applause enveloped the air.

Family, friends, and sporting stars of past and present turned out for the removal of Gaelic football legend Kevin Heffernan in Dublin last night.

Dublin 0-17 Kildare 1-16 (aet)

I remember it like it was yesterday.

Funeral arrangements have been announced for Dublin GAA legend Kevin Heffernan.

Despite all his success, Heffo was as modest a man as you could wish to meet

Kevin Heffernan wasn’t solely responsible for revitalising Dublin football in the mid-’70s and re-energising the GAA in the capital but he was the one who masterminded the county’s emergence as a dominant force.

McGrath Cup Final: Tipperary v Kerry

Tributes from the GAA and Irish sporting worlds are being paid to the late Kevin Heffernan, who has died at the age of 83.

Dublin football legend Kevin Heffernan, who managed the Dubs to three All-Ireland SFC titles, has passed away at the age of 83.

You would hardly mistake this corner of the newspaper for the social and personal page, but we couldn’t let this morning pass without sharing a classic ‘seen about town’ moment.

THE current Dublin team have already eclipsed the achievements of the county’s great team of the ’70s, according to selector David Hickey.

IN September 1955, the 19-year-old Mick O’Dwyer was a spectator in Croke Park when Kerry’s traditional football skills triumphed over the science and swagger of a much-hyped Dublin side.

AS a player, he had the unfortunate experience of being on the losing side in All-Ireland football and hurling finals in the space of six years.

WHEN Barack Obama stood on the front lawn of Áras an hUachtarán on Monday morning, holding a hurley in his golfer’s grip and swinging it from the elbows like he was warming up in a batting cage, we all knew how he had come to be there.

WHEN Paul Caffrey stepped down as Dublin manager last summer, it was hard to escape the feeling he was bringing the curtain down on more than just his own career.

WHEN Pat Gilroy was announced as the new Dublin football manager, most commentators were taken by surprise.

Much-loved former Dublin player and manager Kevin Heffernan is to be part of the capital’s minor football management team for the 2007 season.

DUBLIN hurling is at last arousing itself from its slumber.

THIRTY years on, former referee John Moloney has admitted he never saw Sean Doherty's notorious tackle on Mickey Ned O'Sullivan in the 1975 All-Ireland football final between Kerry and Dublin.

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

THERE’S a novel situation in Tralee tonight as Kerry and Dublin meet in the third round of the NFL under lights at Austin Stack Park. It’s hardly a novel pairing, however.