CORK’S Michael Shields and Dublin’s Philip McMahon face the possibility of suspensions and their boards could be handed down heavy fines after fisticuffs broke out between the players at half-time of yesterday’s Allianz Division 1 final in Croke Park.

IT’S the kind of occasion that has the potential to unnerve the most experienced of pros but Glenn Whelan insists that all the pressure will be on France rather than Ireland when the sides meet at Croke Park tonight.

IF anger was an odour the bowels of Croke Park would be in need of a serious fumigation this morning.

WHEN Pat Kelly emerges from the Hogan Stand tunnel on Monday, it will be the first time he has felt the HQ turf under his studs since September 2004 when his first All-Ireland experience was spoiled by Colm Cooper.

MICK MARTIN remembers playing there for St Vincent’s Glasnevin CBS as a 13-year old. Liam Brady recalls the afternoons he spent watching the likes of Lar Foley and Jimmy Keaveney strut their stuff for the Dubs.

‘COME on Tyrone, come on Tyrone’, one supporter roared in a northern accent as Mick O’Dwyer disappeared down the Hogan Stand tunnel shortly after yesterday’s absorbing Leinster final draw.