JIM Gavin quickly shot down comparisons between this current Dublin group and those from the glittering era of the 1970s.

Step into the impressive St Vincent’s GAA bar room and it’s not long before you’re reminded of the club’s glory era.

Jimmy Deenihan had developed a grá for the Artane Boys Band long before he set eyes on the red and blue uniform.

The Minister of State for Tourism and Sport confirmed €2 million of the monies cut from the sports budget earlier this year has been returned to the sector for use at grass roots and elite levels.

St Vincent’s (Dublin) 1-14 Summerhill (Meath) 1-10

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.

I remember it like it was yesterday.

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.

In Kerry, a county with so many All-Ireland medals, what kind of person would be agreeable to the general populace as a radio sports host?

The stars of yesteryear gathered to say farewell to John Egan, writes Michael Moynihan

JIMMY DEENIHAN, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and former Kerry All-Ireland-winning captain, launched his book, My Sporting Life, last night in Cork with the aid of a former opponent, Rebel County dual legend Jimmy Barry-Murphy.

THE GPA have paid out sums of money ranging between €1,000 and €3000 to 19 current and former inter-county players who suffered financial problems due to the economic crisis, from the organisation’s benevolent fund over the past 18 months.

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

CATENACCIO went out of fashion in Italy along time ago but former Dublin player and manager Tony Hanahoe believes Serie A’s ultra-defensive mindset is alive and well in Gaelic football and threatening the very fabric of the game.

DUBLIN may be heaven with coffee at 11 and a stroll round Stephen’s Green but I recall walking down Grafton Street, off the Green, five steps behind Dublin football star Tony Hanahoe when he was in his playing heyday.

KILLARNEY has long been lucky for Austin Leahy and the Limerick handler struck again at the track last night when Kims Dream landed a little gamble in the Killarney Oils Ltd Handicap.

Joycean scholar, gay rights advocate and broadcaster, David Norris became a national treasure some time ago. In the wake of Donal Óg Cusack’s revelations last week, he spoke to Michael Moynihan about his own secret life within the GAA.

LILLIE Langtry was made favourite with some firms for next year’s 1,000 Guineas after cutting down her rivals inside the final furlong to land the Group 2 Debutante Stakes over seven furlongs at Leopardstown.

Obesity, ill discipline and the state of Kerry football. Just the headline acts in a two-hour chat with Pat Spillane. Michael Moynihan did the listening.

GAA chiefs on both sides of the Atlantic last night reiterated that the New York board fully support a decision to abandon stadium development plans for the Randall’s Island site in the big apple.

THE New York Board of the GAA agreed with the decision to abandon to proposal to develop a stadium on a site in Randalls Island, association President Sean Kelly insisted yesterday.

NEW YORK’S Irish community will have to wait until the new year before discovering whether their hopes for a GAA home in the heart of the city are to be realised.

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.

TO the thousands of admirers that came from across the country to pay their final respects, he was Tim Kennelly, the powerful, battle-hardened Kerry footballer and winner of five All-Ireland medals.

KERRY GAA and the world of Gaelic games is in mourning for one of its greatest football exponents, following the unexpected death yesterday of Tim Kennelly in his native Listowel.

SOME of the top names in GAA management and coaching will be involved in a coaching conference - Delivering a New Age for Gaelic Games - on Saturday, December 3, in The Helix, DCU.

Thirty years after waking up in hospital to ask the nurses who won the All-Ireland he was playing in, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to make his victory speech, with a familiar figure in close attendance. Michael Moynihan and Murt Murphy report.

HOPES of establishing a new home for the GAA in New York will depend on whether the Croke Park Management Committee decides that the planned development on Randalls Island is feasible.

THEY remembered better days in the Guinness storehouse on Wednesday night, the rare auld times as they say in Dublin.

TWENTY-eight years on, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to lift the Sam Maguire Cup, not in Croke Park where the honour was denied him in the 1975 All-Ireland football final against Dublin, but in Dunmanway where winning captains and their representatives over the last 75 years were honoured on Saturday.