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The midfielder is the most iconic position in all of Gaelic football but who is the best to ever play it? There are a tonne of legends out there – Darragh Ó’Sé, Anthony Tohill, Jack O’Shea and Brian Mullins to name just a few among the many. It’s an impossible question to answer and one that can hardly be measured …

The sight of Jack McCaffrey blazing a trail underneath the Hogan Stand as he links defence with attack is one to behold for Gaels around the world. In a Dublin side that is all-conquering, on his day, McCaffrey might well be the best to watch. As good as Dublin are, the overall standard of Gaelic football in recent years has …

Mick O' Dwyer Doesn't Rate Dublin Footballers As A Great Team

Dublin footballer Ciarán Kilkenny is confident that the All-Ireland champions have the strength-in-depth to cope with the loss of the suspended Diarmuid Connolly. Speaking as Sure launched their second season as the GAA’s official stats partners, Kilkenny spoke about the intense competition for places in Jim Gavin’s side, who hammered Westmeath by a mammoth 31 points in last Sunday’s Leinster semi-final. …

Dublin defender Cian O’Sullivan has admitted his side have taken great positives from losing the Allianz National Football League final earlier this month to Kerry.  The centre-back has stated that talk surrounding the Dubs’ historic unbeaten run in the build-up to the clash with the Kingdom did become a distraction. Now that the 36-game undefeated streak has come to an …

When you go balls out in the business of predicting football matches, you really have to leave them hanging. In the almost fortnight between the drawn All-Ireland final replay, various pundits flip-flopped between Mayo and Dublin. You may recall that I penned a piece immediately after Dublin’s victory over Kerry in the All-Ireland semi-final, predicting that you could take it …

Dublin are unbeaten in league and championship since losing to Kerry in a Killarney league fixture in March 2015. When the dust settles on this evening’s All-Ireland final replay, they’ll remain on course to catch, match and surpass a staggering Kerry run in the 1920s and 1930s. From October 1928 until March 1933, Kerry went undefeated in league and championship, …

Approximately 14 months ago Mayo’s Aidan O’Shea was widely spoken as the best player in the country. When playing Dublin in the first semi-final last year, the Dubs essentially double marked him with two All Stars, such was his reputation at the time. Since then his performances have been terribly underwhelming for the most part and if Mayo are to have …

After nailing our colours to the mast, we’re not about to back down now. It’s been delayed by 80 minutes or so but Dublin will be crowned All-Ireland Senior Football champions at the second time of asking on October 1. Confession: that was a Mayo performance we didn’t see coming and it’s one to be admired. Three points down with …

Jim Gavin has been busy swatting away the inevitable ‘Heffo’ comparisons in recent times. The late, great Kevin Heffernan presided over three All-Ireland wins during two separate terms in charge of Dublin in 1974, 1976 and 1983. He surprisingly stepped aside before Dublin launched a successful defence of their title in 1977, presided over by player-manager Tony Hanahoe. But Heffo …

“Did you order the Code Red? Did you order the Code Red?” Most of us that were around in the nineties remember the key courtroom scene of the blockbuster film A Few Good Men. In it, Tom Cruise’s rookie lawyer taunts the belligerent Naval base commander played with simmering menace by Jack Nicholson, trying to get him to break and …

Another victory and the same words begin to echo around the country. The Dubs are invincible, nobody can beat them, they have an unfair advantage over other counties and so on. But all of these are turning into lazy statements. Before we commence, let’s point out that this writer is not a Dub. In fact, he has a dislike for …

The first rule in PR crisis management is to know the issue. In terms of preparation, you tick all the boxes in research, context, history etc. When crisis occurs people feel the need to rush in and instantly respond, which more often than not backfires. It’s a concept that Jim Gavin has failed to grasp over the course of his …

Following the Sky Blues’ sensational 2015 campaign, one might have thought that there wouldn’t be much room for a breakthrough from any of the young Dubs. However, if this league season is anything to go by, then the summer’s championship will be a mouth-watering prospect for Dublin supporters. When looking at the starting lineup from last year’s All-Ireland final victory …