On this week's pod Maurice Brosnan and Marc O'Se are joined by The42's Kevin O'Brien. They look ahead to what is possibly the most important football weekend of the year, discuss the growing longevity of playing careers, knowing when it is the beginning of the end and coaching tree clusters

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Kerry great Marc Ó Sé is back on this week's pod with host Maurice Brosnan and The42 GAA Editor Fintan O'Toole.

The lads look at the messy way this year's football league is ending, pick the best unicorn Gaelic footballers and discuss versatility on a team, while paying tribute to the progress of Clare and their star forward David Tubridy.

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Marc Ó Sé returns to talk football with The42 GAA editor Fintan O'Toole and host Maurice Brosnan.

We hear the lads' 10 favourite things about the league so far, talk Dublin v Kerry and the tactical trend towards a more progressive game, discuss challengers and pretenders and take your questions.

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''And in the foggy dew, I saw you throwing shapes aroundIt was underneath the waking of a Dublin City sky''

And just like that the season that almost never was is over.

Dublin made it 6-in-a-row but along the way we had the fairy-tale of Cavan and the spine-tingling poignancy of Tipperary playing in Croke Park 100 years on from Bloody Sunday, 1920.

In our final installment Marc and Shane look back on a thrilling All Ireland Final and Marc gives his team of the year.

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In Limerick the wounds of the past are being repaired. A proud City and County is asserting itself on the national stage and it's Hurlers are in the vanguard.

Shane Dowling was one of the lucky few to be in Croke Park for this winter All-Ireland Hurling Final- he joins Marc O'Se to look back on a day when John Kiely's side cemented it's greatness with a second title and in doing so going the year unbeaten.

Shane also names his Championship team of the year, while Marc looks ahead to this weekends football decider.

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The Sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

For all of the sweeping changes which have come our way in this year of years - the All-Ireland Football final will once again see Dublin take on Mayo.

Marc and Shane look back on a weekend of football which has led for some demanding revolutionary changes and others asking us to look ahead to 2050.

Our man in Limerick City also previews this weekends Hurling final.

While Emma Duffy and Sinead Farrell (1 hour 9 mins) reflect on a weekend in which the Ladies game was thrown into disrepute.

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After the romance and shock of Cavan and Tipperary's campaigns in the football championship, this weekend when the curtain was drawn, it was hurling which took to the stage.

The first semi-final saw Kilkenny and Waterford battle it out in another 2020 classic encounter. But even though TJ Reid tried his best, Kilkenny couldn't hold off a rampant second half Waterford display.

A lost and lonely Shane Dowling spent his Sunday watching on as Limerick and Galway served up the hurling equivalent of The Queen's Gambit with Limerick making enough right moves to come out on top.

Marc Ó Sé also looks forward to next weekend's football semi-finals while Emma Duffy and Sinead Farrell wrap the show (1:16:00) by casting an eye over the weekend's camogie and LGFA action.

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On a weekend when the GAA pledged to never forget, we got a weekend which we will never forget.

The crisp but perfect conditions on Saturday helped serve up another feast of enthralling hurling, while in an eerie coincidence, the same All-Ireland football semi-finalists from 1920 have made it into the 2020 last four.

Kerry footballers may not make it to Croke Park this year but their hurlers will while Tipperary footballers will get a big day out in HQ while their hurlers won't.

Just who is writing this script?

This morning Shane Dowling and Marc Ó Sé look back at one of the most incredible Championship weekends we have been lucky enough to witness.

We also have historian Donal Fallon look back on that fateful weekend in November 1920 when 14 people went to Croke Park for a football match and never made it home.

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Forget about throwing more turf on that fire, watching Saturday's Leinster hurling final should have heated up houses the length and breadth of the island.

Kilkenny's demise has been spoken of but this weekend Richie Hogan was redeemed in Croke Park - a moment of pure magic propelling Brian Cody's Cats into an All-Ireland semi-final and talk of a title.

Munster champions Limerick are into the final four as well, but only after Waterford put them to the pin of their collar in a gripping provincial final while in the football, Cavan doubled down on their place as the game's new comeback kings while Kildare capitulated and Donegal and Dublin steamrolled onwards. 

And, whisper it... Mayo for Sam?

This morning Marc and Shane run the rule over all of this weekend's action and discuss the unique attributes a team will need to win this winter Championship.

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Shellshocked.

That's the only word to describe Marc Ó Sé -- and the entirety of Kerry football, you'd suspect -- after Cork delivered one of the most dramatic and unexpected Championship twists in recent memory in Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.

On this morning's episode, Marc and Shane break down Peter Keane's tactics and Kerry's style of play, as well as the approach  -- and the hunger -- which kept Cork in with a puncher's chance and allowed them to land that final knockout blow.

There's talk of the new faces in the Mayo ranks as they impressed against Roscommon, a bounceback win for the Cork hurlers that leaves the game in Dublin at its latest crossroads, pundits who are battling to stay relevant, and much, much more.

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