Ultimate grudge match as Dublin hunt victory in Castlebar

List your top 10 grudge matches in inter-county Gaelic football at the moment. If Dublin don’t feature in at least three of them, best go again.

Almost a decade ago former captain Paddy Christie bemoaned the fact that for any other middling team to be such a prized scalp would be strange. For Dublin, he said, it was a norm. Counties wanted to beat them not because of what they were but who they were.

These days, Dublin are met with the perfect storm. Two All-Ireland titles in four years has raised the bounty on their heads just as they’ve targeted those who have either stopped or replaced them in those in-between seasons. The recent face-offs with Donegal and Kerry have had more than just a whiff of cordite. But neither game compared to last March’s draw with Mayo in Croke Park.