Meath v Kerry: the new regime against the old guard

The climax of the TG4 All-Ireland football championship will take place on Sunday, but will it be a Royal defence of the title, or a first triumph in 29 years - and one which moves them top of the roll of honour list - for the women from the Kingdom?

Going to the Wall one last time?

The undoubted spectre hanging around this feast of Gaelic football on Sunday will be the AFLW.

Vikki Wall, last year's TG4 Player of the Year, has signed a professional contract with North Melbourne, while her team-mate Orlagh Lally is off to play with the Fremantle Dockers.

Will this be the last time they grace GAA HQ in the green and gold? We can only hope not, as their departure, alongside 19 other leading players, is undoubtedly an issue for the LGFA.

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Wages on the other side of the world are only set to increase over the next decade, and the draw of the sun, sea, sand and pro sport might be hard for some of Gaelic games' leading talents to ignore, a point Dublin's Sinead Goldrick touched on earlier in the summer when she said, "AFLW want to have it [full-time] professional by 2026 so there will definitely be improvements over the next four years.

"By 2026 it'll be full-time, so I don't know if the opportunity to do both [inter-county and AFLW] will be there then."

That's all for another day though.

Meath to join game's royalty?

It's less than 12 months since Meath caused what was then considered to be one of the great shocks in Irish sport by beating Dublin, and preventing them doing the five-in-a-row,