Jack O'Connor

Hand-passing and slow play were critical to recent clashes of football’s elite pairing

Kerry face stiff test in Munster as Galway ready to rise to Connacht challenge

Veteran forward is one of the key reasons Donegal are contenders - Kerry let themselves down by failing to even say boo to him

Lengthy spells without scoring left the holders in freefall against Jim McGuinness’s impressive winners

High-voltage league conclusions have been charging up since the turn of the century

Jim McGuinness and Jack O’Connor seem locked in a rivalry to show who cares less about the competition

Jim McGuinness’s team were pretty comfortable, although the odd weakness will have to be worked on

Fallout from All-Ireland final no-show adds to significance of Sunday’s league game against champions

McGrath Cup losers Kerry missing players as they begin title defence against weakened Roscommon

Defender Tiernan Kelly relishing Dr McKenna Cup opener after pain of last year’s SFC quarter-final

Jack O’Connor adds the former Armagh selector, who won multiple All-Ireland as a player with Kerry

Five-time winning manager believes this season was David Clifford’s best to date

Austin Stacks midfielder would prefer preseason window to focus on National League preparation

Buck still stops with the manager, but in some cases their selectors pay first for bad results

Westmeath and Fermanagh were faced with unexpected vacancies but hope to fill them quickly

Jack O’Connor and Pat Ryan had similar trajectories up until half-time in late July

Pa McCarthy promoted to position of selector for senior team

Manager had appeared to be calling it a day after All-Ireland final

Few could have predicted Kerry’s dominance after just 12 minutes of play

Kerry came to play from the start and never gave the Ulster champions a foothold

Kingdom boss likely to walk away once the celebrations from All-Ireland win have died down

His fifth All-Ireland win at the helm may well be his last hurrah, but his place in the pantheon has never been in doubt

Jack O’Connor: ‘We weren’t going to sit back and just see what they had to offer. We were really going after them’

Departing Jack O’Connor won his fifth All-Ireland with the Kingdom

While the Kingdom enjoy a good All-Ireland final record with representatives of other provinces, it stands at just 45% against Ulster teams

While some players may see it as a burden, the high king of forwards wears his crown lightly going in to his fourth All-Ireland final

Jim McGuinness’s men know Sam Maguire will be in their sights if they limit impact of gifted forward

Three sets of brothers could play a role in showpiece clash at Croke Park

Perhaps winning a final requires something different, that deciders are the exception and call for a distinct approach

Kerry manager expecting a clash of styles in Sunday’s All-Ireland decider against Donegal

Kerry have changed their game plan to suit Donegal before so don’t be surprised if they tone down the kicking in order to win

In the 33 years since he first appeared as a selector for the county, the Kerry manager has shown an extraordinary capacity to absorb criticism

Manager hits out at criticism of him and his team after stunning victory over All-Ireland champions Armagh

The problem isn’t the injuries, it’s that so many of the next wave of players are untested at the highest level of football

There was little between last two All-Ireland champions on Sunday, but Kieran McGeeney had a trump card

The weekend’s action showed the merit of the new rules - let’s work with them

President leads tributes to Mick O’Dwyer as the worlds of sport and politics remember the Kerry great

Kevin McStay launches a feeble attack, new rules ready for the real test, and Croke Park fails to draw the masses

Jack O’Connor is chasing silverware; Dessie Farrell’s number one problem; Limerick’s record-breaker

New rules that reward more exciting play are already having their impact on the game