Tommy Walsh is in two minds about the decision to make the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship a six-team competition next season.

In fits and starts Kerry motored. And sporadic though they were, these bursts of enterprise proved just about sufficient to deliver a second Allianz league win.

A strong opening and equally smart 10-minute period midway through the second-half delivered the home side a second league win, while also patching over long periods of Kerry mediocrity.

Our writers look ahead to the major talking points ahead of the weekend's Allianz League action.

Seamus Moynihan has increased the pressure on the GAA to intervene in the ongoing recruitment of talented young players by the AFL, claiming the situation is “insane”.

Kerry won’t have grafted harder for a pair of league points in quite some time. And that will make this come-from-behind victory all the sweeter for Peter Keane and the players.

Why is the David Clifford Kerry captaincy an issue at all?, asks Tony Leen.

Cathal McShane was not the only Irishman touching down in Australia this week to trial for an AFL club.

John Fogarty previews Division 1 of the Allianz Football League.

A crazy game of hurling in the month of January, as best described by Pádraig Walsh. The Tullaroan centreback and county star, was one of four brothers who helped the Kilkenny side to All Ireland intermediate hurling championship glory in Croke Park on Saturday night.

A pulsating and absolutely magnificent All Ireland intermediate hurling club championship final eventually went the way of Tullaroan at Croke Park this evening.

Fr O'Neill's will seek to take All-Ireland Intermediate Club Hurling honours when they face Tullaroan at Croke Park this evening.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

Kerry attacker Paul Geaney is the latest big name to blast football’s new advanced mark, claiming the game would have ‘sorted itself out’ if left alone.

A full 118 days on from losing the All-Ireland to Dublin, and 15 from facing them all over again at Croke Park in the Allianz League, Stephen O’Brien is over the deepest of the heartache but is still regretful.

Kilkenny champions, Tullaroan, opened and finished in style when blasting their way into the All-Ireland intermediate club hurling championship final.

Tullaroan made sure of a silver finish to 2019 as they added the Leinster intermediate club title to the trophy cabinet.

All-Ireland final referee David Gough has responded to the controversy generated by the Irish Examiner GAA Podcast, on which former Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice insisted Gough shouldn’t be selected to ref that final.

John Fogarty previews the weekend's GAA fixtures.

Growing up, the only county games Marty Kavanagh went to were Kilkenny games and he was typically there for one reason, to watch Henry Shefflin.

An epic encounter in Tralee, adorned by stunning displays on both sides — none more so than Kerin’s O’Rahilly’s David Moran.

Paul Geaney led the way as Dingle qualified for the Kerry SFC quarter-finals with a deserved victory over Kerins O’Rahilly’s in a closely-fought contest at Páirc an Ághasaigh on Saturday evening.

Patrick Horgan has been shortlisted for 2019 PwC Hurler of the Year award, along with Tipperary and Kilkenny captains Séamus Callanan and TJ Reid.

A Gearóid Savage point in the fifth minute of second-half stoppages - which was the substitute’s first involvement in proceedings - handed victory to Kerins O’Rahilly’s in this entertaining Kerry SFC first-round fixture.

Dublin have won their fifth All-Ireland title in a row in a stunning battle with Kerry at Croke Park.

Kerry great Aidan O’Mahony has admitted he’d start towering Tommy Walsh in the All-Ireland final replay but reckons boss Peter Keane will hold him in reserve once again.

It was natural that of all the previous All-Ireland finals that last Sunday’s conjured comparisons with, 1982 was the easiest from the archive to reach for, but for long periods, it felt an awful lot like 2011 to us.

Even if Dean Rock's kick had been on target, Kerry had a plan to attempt to block it going over the bar.

Draws, by their very nature, tend to leave us with more questions than answers.

One way or another it’s going to be a historic day. Either the Five in a Row or 1982 Revisited. The RTÉ panel are so giddy they appear to be groping one another. You read that correctly.

Paradise lost or great expectations? This was no Penguin Classic but it will have the look of one for Kerry.

In Tipperary town 34 years ago, Donie Buckley got enough of his right fist to a desperate, late sideline ball from his Desmonds colleague Martin Downey to deliver a first All-Ireland club football title to the town of Castleisland.

Dublin and Kerry will have to battle it out again on Saturday, September 14 (6pm throw-in), after this absorbing if error-strewn tussle finished tied.

Dublin selector Declan Darcy accepts the bubble the group have created will be “stress-tested” by the intensifying hype surrounding their achievements and perceived advantages.

Kerry must simplify their kickout strategy and go long from the tee against Dublin, says former Kingdom star Declan O’Sullivan.

Seventeen Kerry players are in line to make their All-Ireland senior final debut on Sunday afternoon.

Peter Keane wasn’t the least bit surprised to hear Jim Gavin regard his Kerry side as a team of the now, rather than one for the future.

Seven years on, Sunday finally put a seal on the anguish for Tommy Dunne.

Last week, we brought you the management life and times of Brian Cody and Kilkenny in the words of Bruce Springsteen.

Refereeing Kilkenny-Tipperary Championship games this decade were like walking on a cliff edge.

Learning you’re about to make your inter-county debut is a big moment in any player’s life.