GPA founder Donal O’Neill: Gaelic football is all very Steve Davis right now

“If you’re going to migrate professional principles onto an amateur sport, this is what happens,” Donal O'Neill says of Dublin's dominance

Stephen Cluxton leads out the Dublin players ahead of the All-Ireland final at Croke Park in 2019. Donal O’Neill says the Dublin management now works like a machine. ‘They’re not putting dummies in there but the reality is I could manage Dublin.’ Picture: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

How do you solve a problem like Dublin?

Depends if you think they’re a problem in the first place. Donal O’Neill, who predicted 13 years ago that one team “will possess the power to change the face of the association completely”, looks on them with admiration and as a symptom of the issue.