Dublin legend Jimmy Keaveney has rubbished claims Jim Gavin’s men are going to brush Kerry aside in Sunday’s All-Ireland SFC semi-final.

CONNACHT SFC SEMI-FINAL:

My first memory of Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta is from 1984, when An Rinn was full of talk about Willie Joe Padden.

Will Galway bate Mayo?

When Willie Joe Padden was interviewed before the All-Ireland final in 1989, he revealed he would die a happy man if Mayo won the decider against Cork.

IT started in 1989. John O’Mahony had organised a behind closed doors training session in Ballina’s James Stephens Park the week after Mayo had beaten Tyrone in the All-Ireland final. Word spread around the town. From there it went around the county and 5,000 people turned up to the secret meeting.

London's reward for ending their Championship drought is a home match against Waterford in the second round of the All-Ireland SFC qualifiers.

A STAND-OFF is on the cards in Connacht involving the Mayo County Board and the steering group appointed by the board to oversee a root and branch reorganisation of the GAA within the county.

Mayo native Billy Joe Padden is set to switch club and county allegiances to Armagh, after completing a transfer to Carrickcruppen.

SOME of the countries best known GAA stars including Meath’s Graham Geraghty, Cork’s Anthony Lynch, Donegal duo Kevin Cassidy and Brendan Boyle along with Kerry’s Darragh, Marc and Tomás O Sé are set to thrill spectators at the Comórtas Peile na Gaeltachta National finals in Belmullet in June (4-7).

SHAME on us as a sporting nation.

TWENTY YEARS is a long time in anyone’s life, particularly a sportsman. The Ireland of 1989 seems like a different planet given what we’ve experienced since.

A DOCUMENTARY on Tyrone's Cormac McAnallen will launch the fifth series of TG4's Laochra Gael on Christmas Day.