Na Fianna and Cuala taking parish-feel to new heights as they respectively eye All-Ireland hurling and club titles

A Dublin clean sweep of club honours?

That's a possibility this weekend, with Cuala and Na Fianna flying the flag for the capital in the respective All-Ireland club finals on Sunday.

Supporters from opposite ends of County Dublin will flock to Croke Park for a January conclusion to club matters. Country voices will also be heard, with Sarsfields of Cork and Tyrone's Errigal Ciarán in town, but plenty with non-Dublin tones will also be cheering on the sides from Glasnevin and Dalkey.

The 'culchies' have long done their bit for the GAA across Dublin's fair city and county. In the period from the mid 1920s to the 50s, hurling, in particular, was dominated by countrymen, in both the club and county scene. A Munster influence was strong. As a result there was little interest amongst the locals, in spite of the Dubs' All-Ireland success in 1938.

Football was the preferred code, particularly on the northside, where St Vincent's blazed a trail, winning 19 county football titles and eight hurling crowns in the period from 1949 to 1972. With Vinny's featuring your born-and-bred Dubs, the stage was test for some niggly encounters against their rivals, more so when country tones made up the opposition.

That said, it wasn't a case that those beyond the pale were not welcome - but in time more clubs would follow the St Vincent's model - that is in creating a parish-feel where those born in Dublin would not be passed over in favour of the outsiders.

Such thinking, in part, saw over 200 members leave the then CJ Kickhams club to form Na Fianna. The year was 1955 and now 70 years on, the club based on Mobhi Road, are just one game away from winning a first All-Ireland club title as their hurlers face off against Cork's Sarsfields in the Croker