Seán Moran: All-Ireland football championship draw hastens final curtain for provincials

Kerry's Paudie Clifford and Cork goalkeeper Christopher Kelly during the Munster semi-final at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney. Kerry are on course for an 11th provincial title in 12 years. Bryan Keane/Inpho

Anyway, next Sunday Galway and Mayo can – if they like – make up their minds either to get into the ring with the losers of Armagh-Donegal plus league winners Derry or take a chance with Dublin and secure a fond reacquaintance with their Rossie neighbours.Tactical breakdown: McGuinness’s Donegal masterplan is still a work in progressOr simply decide that they might as well have a Connacht title to show for the season – if not quite to sate a ravenous hunger.

Dublin’s scorched earth campaigns in Leinster have the county on 14-in-a-row this year, a feat that, as mentioned above, they are 1 to 100 to achieve. If the province’s hurling championship has been largely a story of Kilkenny against a succession of contenders, their identity changing with time, Dublin occupy the same role in football.

“Between 1907 and 1943, Cork failed to beat Kerry in any championship game. Between 1945 and 1971, Cork won just six matches,” recalled Cork GAA historian Diarmuid O’Donovan in these pages last September. “We’ve invested €1,500,000 plus in games development and because Leinster is a football province, two-thirds of that has gone on football – which is fair because football receipts fund the development drive. If we relied on hurling for revenue, we’d be poorer than Connacht.”

This century, Leinster and Munster may still top the All-Ireland roll of honour ahead of Ulster and Connacht but in terms of getting to finals there is a greater spread with 10, 17, 10 and 11, respectively.

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