Five in a row or not, Jim Gavin was in character facing the press after the final whistle.

Upstairs in the Cork Institute of Technology student centre, a picture of the college’s 2009 Sigerson Cup winning team hangs on the wall outside Keith Ricken’s office.

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.

Jim Gavin’s response when asked if there was a sense of regret at neglecting to take Jonny Cooper off David Clifford when he had the chance could have hardly been more definitive.

One of the country’s top sports science experts has warned there is a “great danger” rival counties will be unable to compete with Dublin in the years ahead unless they overhaul their development structures.

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’.

Jim Gavin’s squad undertook a training session in Cooraclare on Saturday.

A wedding later this month, a 15-month-old baby, plus radio and TV gigs — you’d think Kathryn Thomas has enough on her plate right now. But no, she’s just decided to take her Pure Results bootcamp to Spain for the first time. Pat Fitzpatrick finds out more.

Michael Hayes All-Ireland winners Mike Quirke and Patrick Kelly believe the red carpet should be rolled out at Croke Park for Open Championship winner Shane Lowry.

On the de facto opening Championship weekend, Greg Kennedy provided a whopper.

Kerry manager Peter Keane believes his young players thrived on taking on football’s ‘top dogs’ in Tralee Saturday night.

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

In the ever-improving as well as ever-expanding genre that is the GAA autobiography, every new entry tends to have a hook to draw the floating reader in.

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

Wicklow delivered the shock result of the round in last night’s series of games in the Leinster MFC, as goals from Kevin Quinn and Eoin Darcy gave them a 2-6 to 0-8 win over Dublin at Parnell Park.

A dyed in the wool GAA man stopped me on the street during the week and had something he wanted to get off his chest.

There are few more interesting interviewees in Gaelic football than Michael Darragh Macauley and he was in top form again last week when conducting a round of promotional media chats.

Dublin selector Jason Sherlock has accepted an eight-week ban for getting involved in a sideline incident against Galway.

The GAA’s new referees development chairman Willie Barrett believes the number of team officials on sidelines can be reduced after a spate of suspensions for managers and selectors.

Future Leaders gathered on the evening of Thanksgiving to share experiences of great leadership in their own lives.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland captain wants to see his county back up their performance against Mayo.

Cork’s 2010 All-Ireland captain Graham Canty has warned people not to read too much into the team’s heartening defeat against would-be All-Ireland runners-up Mayo last summer.

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice has drafted in leading basketball coach James Weldon to take on some coaching responsibilities with the Kingdom’s footballers in 2018.

Sporting fame allowed him to belong. But despite enjoying a varied career full of celebrity and success, Jason Sherlock retired feeling a failure. A deep thinker, his views on Gaelic football left him frustrated by his and Dublin’s underachievement. But now, as Jim Gavin’s coach, everything has come together and finally makes sense

A couple of months after Martin O’Neill took a sabbatical from football management to help look after his then ill wife Geraldine, this writer interviewed someone who had played minor inter-county Gaelic football with one of O’Neill’s great foot soldiers at Parkhead, Neil Lennon.

For a media working off morsels to understand what really makes Jim Gavin tick, his keynote presentation at the HPX High Performance Conference back in October, when everyone from Maslow to Mandela to MLK got a mention, was rightly considered revelatory.

During Jim Gavin’s presentation at Sport Ireland’s recent HPX Conference, the Dublin manager noted that there were “some competitors in the audience”, past and present, which probably explained why he was so big on philosophy but so scarce on actual detail, writes Kieran Shannon.

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

Dublin forwards coach Jason Sherlock insists that the majority of the All-Ireland champions’ backroom team are volunteers and that much of the county’s success has nothing to do with “resources”.

Twenty games, 18 wins, 2 draws. Thus reads the league and championship record of Jim Gavin’s Dublin since March 7 last year when they drew with Tyrone. How much more is left in this run?

Well known GAA stars have joined forces with Special Olympics Ireland to get ‘freezin’ for a reason’ this December and take the Polar Plunge for charity.

The Championship isn’t over a week and already the debate has begun about Dublin dominance next season and how the football landscape will look in the coming years.

It’s become a feature of both Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s and Jim Gavin’s reigns that they tend not to select Under 21 players for big matches. It begs the question, why not?

When Jim Gavin admits he’s not a defensive coach, it might come across as peculiar that he added Jason Sherlock to his backroom team this season with a brief on improving Dublin’s attack. 

Success with all its advantages is quickly becoming the preserve of the few, and all too often the rich.