Ciaran Kilkenny

Dublin remain a deeply vulnerable animal in the cage of Division 1 football

Changes to the calendar and feelings of injustice have seen stars let loose in January

Pre-season finals and the All-Ireland club hurling semi-finals top the bill

Scully expects intensity of national league to grow due to condensed nature of season

Ciaran Kilkenny, Eoin Murchan and Niall Scully the only regulars involved

Mayo and Kerry get three each while Dublin fall back from nine to just one for Ciarán Kilkenny

Students join 24-hour Irish speaking challenge in over 270 schools across Ireland

Dublin were dying for the line to come and save them as Mayo hounded them down

The sport quickly needs to realise these hits are more an act of cowardice than bravery

Mick Fitzsimons and Philly McMahon are the only members of the Dublin panel over 31

Score to draw game at full-time as good as a winner, in truth a stake through the heart

The reigning champions name an unchanged team from Leinster Final win

Mayo are simply flat-out, unproven, but the champions are still the safer bet

The 2017 All-Ireland final had it all and, ultimately, ended in the same result

Mayo cannot afford a repeat of the dismal second quarter against Galway

‘I certainly thought we could have made it a lot closer,’ says Kildare manager O’Connor

There’ll have to be a paradigm shift before the champions take on Mayo in two weeks

Move them into a different room in their minds, then beat them at football

It’s impossible to see them losing to Kildare and then they just have two more games

The champions blow 11-point lead in a listless and at times directionless second half

Dublin try and claim a seventh successive title - but is there a surprise in store?

‘Dublin look to have a rigid gameplan and nobody steps outside of that’