At first glance the subtitle might seem a tad overblown: Dublin – The Chaos Years: How the Dubs Made A Mess of Things For So Long – and How They Turned It Around.

Former Dublin All-Star Ray Cosgrove has identified new-look Kerry as the greatest threat to his county’s bid for four All-Ireland titles in a row.

Dublin, by the skin of their teeth, dragged themselves over the line and ensured their place in history as one of the all-time great GAA teams.

The world was a much different place in May 2001, when Stephen Cluxton made his first Championship appearance for Dublin, writes Paul Keane.

Ray Cosgrove is a busy man, though not as busy as he should be.

A forgetable final they’ll remember in Dublin.

Former Dublin attacker Ray Cosgrove has offered a downbeat assessment of the injury that threatens to rule club-mate Cian O’Sullivan out of the All-Ireland final.

There’s been a few mixed messages being bandied around by the Dublin camp this summer.

He’s known around Kilmacud and Stillorgan as a young man that has a humility to complement his dazzling skill but his own club men still like to keep Paul Mannion grounded.

It is 11 years since Kieran McGeeney and his Armagh team-mates inflicted a deep wound in the psyche of Dublin football by beating the Blues in a dramatic All-Ireland semi-final.

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

WHAT is it about this generation of Kerry player that their All-Ireland final appearances tend to get twinned with another?

KEVIN HEFFERNAN once announced that an All-Ireland final win against Kerry was actually worth two. Tommy Lyons would go even further.

DUBLIN are better positioned to deal with the hype going into this All-Ireland knock-out game against Donegal than when the counties met nine years ago, believes Ray Cosgrove.

YOU’D have to go to quite a bit of bother to find something novel about Dublin’s latest big-game defeat.

A JANUARY boost, this. Two teams who like to play football and haven’t been prevented from staging training sessions or challenge matches in the run-up to today. Joy!

FOR most of the last eight years, the rather dismissive perception of Dublin has been that of a big fish in Leinster’s pond but one that shrank to the proportions of a relative minnow when it migrated into the deeper waters of the All-Ireland series.

IT WAS, in a number of ways, a seminal day. Mick O’Dwyer took charge of Kildare for the last time, Dublin won a first Leinster title since 1995 and Croke Park welcomed its biggest crowd in four decades.

PUTTING impressive performances back-to-back hasn’t been one of Dublin’s strong suits in recent years but Barry Cahill believes his side is ready to kick on from their impressive semi-final destruction of Westmeath this Sunday.

Kilmacud Crokes 1-9

THE inclination is to suggest Crossmaglen Rangers qualified for this afternoon’s AIB All-Ireland club football final too easily to judge their true worth — dismissing Drom-Broadford by 18 points — whereas Dublin champions Kilmacud Crokes proved their credentials by putting out Corofin in a close encounter.

Kilmacud Crokes (Dublin) 2-07 Rhode (Offaly) 1-07

Twelve years after he first broke into the Dublin senior football panel, Ray Cosgrove has confirmed that his inter-county career is over.

Dublin 0-10 Westmeath 0-15

Kerry 1-15 Dublin 0-16

Free-taking hero Mark Vaughan has been named at centre-forward in the Dublin team for Sunday's Leinster SFC semi-final against Offaly (Croke Park, throw-in 4pm).

Meath's Graham Geraghty is likely to find out tomorrow or Thursday if he is to face disciplinary action for connecting with David Henry's face on two occasions during Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final draw with Dublin.

Ciaran Whelan has got the nod to start for Dublin in Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Meath at Croke Park, throw-in 4pm.

After an injury-ravaged 2006, Colin Moran will captain Paul Caffrey's Dublin side in Saturday's Dublin Bus/Evening Herald Dubs Stars match in Portmarnock (throw-in 2pm).

Mayo 1-16 Dublin 2-12

Dublin 1-12 Westmeath 0-5

Kevin Bonner has earned a recall to the Dublin team for Saturday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Westmeath (Croke Park, throw-in 4pm).

Dublin manager Paul Caffrey should have a full hand to choose from when he selects his team for Saturday week's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Westmeath.