Donegal vs Kerry LIVE score updates from All-Ireland SFC final at Croke Park
Will it be paraded around Letterkenny or Listowel in the coming weeks? Dungloe or Dingle? Killybegs or Killarney?
Two passionate football counties at either end of the Wild Atlantic Way with one shared goal.
Donegal are aiming to bring Sam to the Hills for only the third time in their history. The Kingdom of Kerry seek to rule again and plunder a 39th senior crown.
Both managers know what it takes to lead their teams to the summit. This will be Jack O'Connor's eighth All-Ireland final as Kerry senior football manager and he'll be hoping to win a fifth title.
Donegal have only been in four finals in their history and Jim McGuinness has been there for all four, in 1992 as a member of the panel and in 2012 as manager.
While they lost the 2014 final to Kerry, McGuinness has led his side back to the decider in the second year of his second stint. He also managed to coax Michael Murphy out of retirement for the 2025 campaign.
Today will be their 11th Championship outing in a campaign that began with a 10-point win over Derry in Ballybofey in April.
Kerry have played one more game than they planned following their shock loss to Meath in the group stages, but they looked like a different team against Armagh and Tyrone and David Clifford appears to be a man on a mission to win a second Celtic Cross.
How Jim McGuinness will set up his side to try and nullify the Fossa star is just one fascinating sub-plot to today's final.
We'll have all the build-up and team news ahead of throw-in at 3.30pm.
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