The St Vincent’s luminary finished that season as an All-Star full-forward and has been captain for most of an intervening period that has been about too...
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It has been a difficult week for the Dublin footballers. In the days after a championship defeat, everybody has their own way of dealing with the...
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Life moves on. Every footballer finds out eventually that Father Time is the only man who never has to take his beating. Dublin are out of...
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It was a milestone weekend in the football championship. Dublin’s fall was the major outcome and it will have a major impact on what’s left of...
The former Dublin star believes the handful of Sky Blue legends in the 30-31 age bracket will have a key role in handling the inevitable transition...
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And then there were four. But after a quartet of games from which the All-Ireland semi-finalists were confirmed (Galway v Donegal, Kerry v Armagh), the teams...
A DEPLETED Galway somehow won the day at Croke Park – and commentator Ollie Turner has won widespread kudos for nailing the seismic moment. Upon the...
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All-Ireland SFC quarter-final: Galway 0-17 Dublin 0-16 On Saturday, Galway stepped out of the shadows of an unrelenting history and many other more contemporary setbacks to...
“Maybe some people can say we might have over-celebrated a bit, but any day you beat one of the best teams that has played football for...
The Dublin manager didn’t mention any player by name but speaking immediately after the one-point defeat, speculated about the end of an era, explaining that it...
“I didn’t say a whole pile to them. I felt they got a couple of dubious frees which I felt were soft enough, but we hadn’t...
Cillian McDaid kicked three second-half points to help inspire the surprise result, and the third was immediately followed by a fine effort by the freshly introduced...