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GAA Football Review Committee chairperson Jim Gavin speaking during the GAA Special Congress.

In all the column inches that have been dedicated to how Jim Gavin masterly sailed his committee’s ‘enhancements’ through Special Congress, there was little to no mention of how it coincided with a significant anniversary in his life and football itself.

It was precisely five years ago last Saturday that he walked into another room on the northside of Dublin city consisting mostly of men and informed them, as only he could phrase it, that he was “handing back the reins of the Dublin senior football team to the county committee”.