Mick O'Dwyer

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Dublin’s Philip McMahon celebrates with the Sam Maguire after beating Tyrone in the All-Ireland Football Championship final in Croke Park last year. Photograph: Tommy Dickson/Inpho
Seán Moran: This year promises to be momentous for football

The sad irony of Eugene McGee’s death just as the football championship begins has been remarked on: Dublin shortly become only the third county to st(...)

In the 2003 All-Ireland semi-final Tyrone defeated Kerry in a high-energy display of swarm tackling but also superior kicking. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
Seán Moran: Champions beware of Harte stopping strategies

We live in the present, not in the future. Nearly 30 years ago I asked a senior colleague what it had been like to cover football in Kerry’s ‘Golden Y(...)

Kerry’s manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice and his daughter Faye after his final game in charge against Kildare in Killarney. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Seán Moran: Public vitriol towards managers and players is unacceptable

It was the worst of both worlds: the intimacy of an NFL fixture in November combined with the sensibilities of a Premier League soccer match. Dublin h(...)

The Dublin team during the National Anthem before their league encounter with Kerry. There is the suspicion whereas Dublin are tipping along nicely that their main rivals are slipping slightly. Photograph: Inpho
Seán Moran: Extraordinary Dublin in league of their own

Most late, working nights in Croke Park are bathed in the remains of the summer daylight but a 4pm throw-in in early March wouldn’t come into that cat(...)

Current Dublin manager Jim Gavin in action for the county in the 12-point defeat of Kerry in in the league clash at Parnell Park in March 1998. Gavin scored three points on the day. Photograph: James Meehan/Inpho
Last time Dublin beat Kerry by 12? Ask Jim Gavin

Dublin-Kerry: the delve for 12 In the aftermath of Dublin’s big win over Kerry in Croke Park, there was some discussion about whether the 2-17 to 0-1(...)

Mickey Harte: has been trying to retame the wilderness for 10 years at this stage but his conviction that he is capable of doing so has not wavered. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
Seán Moran: Harte still believes he can bring back glory days to Tyrone

In Keith Duggan’s revealing interview with Tyrone manager Mickey Harte on the day this season began just under a fortnight ago, there were flashes and(...)

Billy Morgan: synonymous with the rise of Nemo Rangers as a football power. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho
Nemo and Dr Crokes revive Cork/Kerry rivalry at club level

Sunday’s Munster club football final has a familiar ring as another Cork-Kerry contest between Nemo Rangers and Dr Crokes but the rivalry at county l(...)

Former Offaly footballer Matt Connor with ex-Kerry star Jack O’Shea at the inductees event at the GAA Museum Hall of Fame in Croke Park. Photograph: Matt Browne/Sportsfile
Jack O’Shea foresees little change in Kerry-Mayo rematch

Jack O’Shea, Kerry’s outstanding centrefielder of the Mick O’Dwyer era, says he doesn’t expect there to be much change in Saturday’s All-Ireland repla(...)

Sean Cavanagh lifts the cup after Tyrone win the Ulster championship. Of the four provincial champions, only Tyrone had to play a Division One team along the way. Photograph: INPHO/Presseye/Philip Magowan
Seán Moran: Anxiety is about to take over a relaxed summer

Now that the provinces have closed for business, it’s timely to reflect that the football championship has become like Russian roulette. Provincial ch(...)