MARTIN Reilly is confident that Cavan’s Ulster Championship-winning season will inspire the Breffnimen to work harder and return stronger next season.

THE problem with Dublin is not the money they’ve been given.  It’s the money they’ve learned to make.

WHAT price for your fairytale? That will be two All-Ireland semi-finals and a weekend of your life, please.

Cavan ratings Raymond Galligan: Eye-of-a-needle accuracy from short kick-outs and found his men in the middle when he kicked longer.

THE better the performance, the greater the dismay.

Stephen Cluxton: Might have expected to face an aerial barrage but, apart from a late effort lofted in under the bar, had a handy enough night.

Tactical Take Cavan YOU’RE damned if you do and damned if you don’t against the Dubs.

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final: Cavan 0-12 Dublin 1-24 From Andy Watters at Croke Park DAVID slew Goliath, so the Bible says, but if Goliath had been wearing a Dublin jersey that day maybe the result would have been different? One thing’s for sure, there was no repeat of history’s most famous giant-killing act on Saturday evening.

WE’VE become accustomed to Mayo carrying the fairytale flame into the latter stages of the Championship, but Gaelic football’s most famous curse has hardly got a look-in this year.

THE story of how Val Andrews got the Cavan job in late 1998 has been told before, but it’s always worth telling again.

AFTER so many setbacks and false dawns since the spring, Armagh minor boss Ciaran McKeever admits it was a “big relief” to finally get the green light for the resumption of the Ulster Championship later this month.

All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final: Dublin v Cavan (tomorrow, Croke Park, 5.

Key battle Ciaran Kilkenny v Padraig Faulkner KILKENNY has looked unstoppable this season.

IF Cavan don’t truly believe in themselves tomorrow’s All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin could be over before half-time, but former Breffni full-forward Fintan Cahill expects Mickey Graham’s underdogs to come out blazing against the five in-a-row champions.

NORTHERN Ireland’s Sports Forum chief Ciaran Kearney has pleaded with the Stormont Executive to give greater consideration to the lengths governing bodies are going to make their environments a safe place – and the Cushendall man spoke from personal experience about the absence of sport in his life.

ANTRIM boss Darren Gleeson will run the rule over Neil McManus in the lead-up to their Joe McDonagh Cup final showdown with Kerry, but admits it would be “a brave decision” not to play the Cushendall ace.

SOLICITOR Stephen Atherton yesterday lodged legal proceedings with the Royal High Courts of Justice over the Northern Ireland Executive’s decision to maintain the ban on outdoor sports for children and young people.

TYRONE'S Joe McMahon has warned of the possible pitfalls of putting club football first in a 2021 split season.

ULSTER GAA chief Brian McAvoy has warned against hyping up expectations of sports re-opening quickly following yesterday’s dramatic announcement that the British Government had become the first to give approval to a Covid19 vaccine.

DERRY’S former Allstar forward Paddy Bradley is aiming for success at club and county level in 2021 after accepting the county footballers’ U20 managerial post and confirmed he will be remaining with Loup.