EACH man talks a good game. Each have served their managerial dues in club football, where they both led their respective teams to an All-Ireland title.

EVERYONE in Dublin these days seems to have an opinion on Tommy Lyons' side.

Monaghan 0-13 Kerry 1-11

THE GPA are to enter negotiations with GAA president-elect Sean Kelly with regard to player recognition at official level during his three-year term in office.

YOU wouldn’t blame Brian Talty if he ever suffered from an identity crisis.

ALL over the capital, chests are being used as billboards for Arnotts. Natural order has been restored. The sky-blue buzz has returned with Dublin back in a Leinster final.

WHAT a difference a year makes. Tomorrow afternoon, Alan Brogan will line out for Dublin, not exactly a senior member of the team, but certainly as a young man with an inordinate amount of responsibility on his young shoulders.

Dublin 0-12 Tyrone 0-7

WHATEVER was expected of the Dublin champions in yesterday’s AIB Leinster Club football championship Carlow, a six points defeat at the hands of Portlaoise would hardly have been anticipated.

WHILE they are already favourites for Leinster, with some tipping them for even greater glory, Laois manager Mick O’Dwyer is keeping a lid on the hype that is threatening to envelop his vibrant team again this summer.

CORK CITY manager Pat Dolan yesterday provided an insight into one of the less glamorous aspects of the job as he recalled the moment new signing Stephen O’Flynn broke his leg.

THE joke doing the rounds in Burlington House as Joe Kernan and Tommy Lyons launched the 2003 Allianz National Football League was that three managers were meeting the media in Dublin yesterday but only one was earning €400,000 a year.

PARADISE lost, found, cherished. Seven long years GAA's most famous fans have waited to see the boys in blue win a big match at Croker.

IT was a weekend of missed goal chances, come-backs and deadlocks, and a weekend which saw a tame end to Galway's All-Ireland reign.