Conor McManus: Football is now transformed and Croke Park matches will be even better
With the best players on the best surface, FRC football has reached a new level, and is now a brilliant watch
Donegal GAA
All-Ireland football semi-finals: Throw-in times, where to watch and ticket details
Kerry face Tyrone on Saturday, while Donegal clash with Meath on Sunday
Ciarán Murphy: Football’s best forwards are being rewarded for their genius and it’s a joy to behold
Quarter-final weekend provided irrefutable evidence that the game is back in the best of health
Two-point shots are affecting All-Ireland matches, but not in the ways you might expect
Only three games in the championship had their result changed by two-pointers
Conor McManus: Armagh found out that a Kerry team with a point to prove is an animal like few others
Calls for support showed how invested the team was in proving everyone wrong
Kerry’s 15 minutes of pure destruction and what else we learned from the GAA weekend
Jimmy quietens the noise around Donegal; Dessie bows out of Dublin; Robbie’s on cloud nine in Meath
Teams drawn for All-Ireland football semi-finals
Kingdom made the semi-final with a convincing win over holders Armagh
Tyrone beat Dublin as Dessie Farrell steps down from post - as it happened
Tyrone too strong for the Dubs after Donegal blow Monaghan away with supreme second half display
Donegal come back against Monaghan to show they could go all the way
Monaghan led by seven points at the break but Jim McGuinness’s side turned the tables in the second half
Turnstiles click for a game transformed and the most open championship in decades
Quarter-final attendances on course to be the highest in 16 years
Monaghan’s Croke Park record is of failure against big teams - Donegal clash is a chance to change it
Monaghan’s embrace of the new rules has given them a huge scoring threat and may well be enough to finally beat an All-Ireland contender
All-Ireland SFC quarter-final previews: Top teams about to be thinned out with big names in the firing line
Dublin and Kerry in contests that look too close to call
All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals: What time are Monaghan v Donegal and Tyrone v Dublin today and what channel are they on?
The four All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals will be played at Croke Park this weekend
Darragh Ó Sé: Donegal are right - there’s no way they should have to play on a six-day turnaround
The squeezed season means that player welfare is way down the list behind bums on seats and keeping TV stations happy
Donegal face quick turnaround as All-Ireland quarter-final details announced
Ulster champions to face Monaghan six days after their preliminary quarter-final win over Louth in Ballybofey
All-Ireland football draw: Dublin drawn against Tyrone, Donegal to face Monaghan – As it happened
Reigning champions Armagh to meet Kerry to avoid provincial and group rematches
Dublin’s win over Limerick may be the greatest upset in championship history
Dublin were available at odds of 16/1 with one bookmaker, and not a single columnist called the upset
Football prelims had a whiff of predictability, but it’s anyone’s guess from here to the final
Heavyweights such as Donegal, Kerry and Dublin have all displayed flaws on road to quarter-finals
Donegal charge through Louth to reach All-Ireland quarter-final
Navigation issues got Louth’s day off to a bad start in Ballybofey
Donegal get big win over Louth, Galway also through to quarter-finals – As it happened
Kildare and Limerick will face off in the Tailteann Cup final
Football previews: Dublin can override inconsistency - and Cork - to reach last eight
Other preliminaries likely to produce Kerry, Donegal and Galway for next week’s All-Ireland quarter-finals
Shane O’Donnell gets his head around Donegal’s ‘surreal’ showdown with Louth
The Ulster and Leinster champions meet on Sunday in a clash that will mark an early end to the championship for one of them
‘They do an incredible job’: GAA president Jarlath Burns defends CCCC after Jim McGuinness criticism
Donegal manager was angry over scheduling of clash with Mayo in Roscommon
Conor McManus: Here’s my ranking of the top 12 counties going into the knockouts
The last unbeaten record went up in smoke at the weekend and a few big names are in action sooner than expected
All-Ireland football draw: Dublin to face Cork, Galway draw Down for preliminary quarter-finals – As it happened
Fermanagh and Kildare to meet in Tailteann Cup semi-final while Wicklow draw Limerick
TV View: Football is outshining hurling - it’s just a shame so much of the thrilling fare isn’t on telly
Donegal v Mayo set the pulses racing and led to Tomás Ó Sé waxing lyrical about the big-ball code
Relentless Donegal refuse to let Mayo escape from their grasp
Ciarán Moore’s buzzer beater puts opponents out of championship
‘This wasn’t a fair one’: Donegal’s Jim McGuinness criticises choice of Dr Hyde Park as neutral venue against Mayo
McGuinness says Donegal raised the matter with the CCCC to no avail
Stephen Rochford the right man for Mayo with the season on the line
Lee Keegan believes Rochford’s willingness to try the unpredictable could prove decisive
Mayo will need Aidan O’Shea to wreak havoc to beat Donegal
Donegal will toss too many problems at Mayo for Stephen Rochford’s side to solve them all
Malachy Clerkin: Calling the football championship wide open is a polite way of saying every team is flawed
When the landscape shows up to nine teams able to win Sam Maguire or stop someone else, the format doesn’t matter a damn
Tactical analysis: Aerial dominance and nous in final third will prove pivotal in decisive football weekend
Mayo aiming for a repeat, Dubs target bounce-back and champions Armagh out to maintain momentum
Ciarán Murphy: Kildare looked preconceived notions in the eye and decided to ignore them
The Lilywhites’ Joe McDonagh Cup triumph represents one of the most heartwarming GAA stories of the year
All-Ireland Series permutations: All to play for as group stage comes to close
Donegal, Mayo, Cavan and Tyrone have a lot at stake with all on same points
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