New Dublin senior hurling boss Pat Gilroy should be in a position to name the rest of his management by the end of next week.

Ask a Dublin football fan to list off the Dublin forwards. Realistically how far down the list would you get before they mentioned Paddy Andrews? 

Jim Gavin sits more or less motionless when giving interviews. The few movements are slow and every bit as refined as the crisp shirt and suit but the man is slippery as an eel when the tape rolls.

Everyone might be resigned to the inevitable but no-one will volunteer or be asked to resign, writes Kieran Shannon.

Former Dublin coach Mickey Whelan is in favour of abolishing the handpass in Gaelic football.

You know the smell of cut grass isn’t far from the nostrils once coach education season kicks off in earnest — this is the time of year when GAA clubs up and down the country are cranking up preparations for the year ahead.

It was only earlier this month that Bernard Brogan was providing Jim McGuinness with a most back-handed sort of compliment on his departure as Donegal manager.

Mickey Whelan has no problem talking Dublin up, but the 2011 All-Ireland winning selector draws the line at the suggestion that the reigning champions are operating at a higher level than any other county.

He likes to insulate himself from the media approaching big games, but if Ger Brennan scanned this week’s papers he would see plenty of critical commentary on Dublin’s defence.

Interpro Championship final: Leinster v Ulster

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.

It would be pushing it to suggest Pat Gilroy treated the Leinster championship with contempt this summer.

On the homepage of Kilmacud Crokes’ football website, there’s a photograph captioned ‘The Magnificent Seven’.

Last year’s All-Ireland-winning coach Mickey Whelan believes Dublin have timed their preparations to peak for the All-Ireland semi-final and final.

Dublin legend Brian Mullins says the All-Ireland champions’ greatest challenge in defending their crown is a mental one.

Alan Brogan warns inter-county players will most likely look to be remunerated if the GAA decide to legalise payments of managers.

I WON’T dwell on Simon Zebo here.

ALL-IRELAND winning Dublin manager Pat Gilroy caused some surprise by confirming he won’t be replacing his retired deputy Mickey Whelan.

CAROLINE CURRID has revealed she’s unlikely to continue as the Dublin senior footballers’ performance coach next year.

MICKEY WHELAN has confirmed he will not be part of Dublin’s backroom team for their All-Ireland SFC title defence.

DENIZENS of Hill 16 will be praying extra hard for an upturn in the country’s fiscal fortunes over the next 12 months after Pat Gilroy’s assertion his hopes of continuing as Dublin manager beyond 2012 are basically index-linked to the economy.

DUBLIN football supporters havefinally received the news they craved with confirmation that All-Ireland winning manager Pat Gilroy willremain in charge.

The Dublin County Board released a short statement tonight confirming that Pat Gilroy is to continue as manager of the county's senior footballers.

DUBLIN GAA chief Andy Kettle has admitted ‘Plan B is thin on the ground’ if Pat Gilroy doesn’t agree to stay on tonight.

IRELAND’S chances of regaining the Cormac McAnallen Trophy have been dented by confirmation Alan Brogan will be unable to make the trip to Australia for the International Rules tests in Melbourne and the Gold Coast.

EAMONN FENNELL says the Dublin players will do everything in their power to convince Pat Gilroy to stay on as manager for a fourth season.

PAT GILROY won’t make a decision on his future as Dublin manager until next month.

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

DUBLIN coach Mickey Whelan hopes yesterday’s victory will stop former All-Ireland winners criticising the team.

TO THE list of great clear-the-air team meetings, add Corduff, Co Monaghan.

EYEBROWS were raised in the GAA and in Dublin in particular when Pat Gilroy was appointed as Dublin manager for the 2009 season.

OF all the storylines that this Dublin-Kerry final throws up, one of our favourites is the tale of the two coaches.

DONEGAL men are a traditional bunch. This is more than a flippant opinion.

PAT GILROY’S growth in standing as a manager over the last three years suggests he might just be able to get Dublin to an All-Ireland final this year.

GAA President-Elect Liam O’Neill has called on counties and clubs to stop attempting to find ways around the Association’s rules relating to amateurism.

PAT GILROY has described it as “unfortunate” people don’t believe his team play an attractive brand of football.

PROFESSOR Niall Moyna has claimed October’s International Rules series defeat to Australia proved there are serious flaws in the GAA’s generic training techniques.

HAD the Dublin footballers won last year’s All-Ireland title then virtually every county squad in the country would have been training this morning at 6.30am.

WHEN he takes to the field for Tipperary in Croke Park this evening, Hugh Coghlan will quickly scan the opposition ranks for familiar faces.