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Watch ‘Roy Keane, Simon Harris & Tommy Tiernan' preview All-Ireland final between Kerry & Donegal
JIM Gavin is probably the best impression in Conor Moore's All-Ireland final preview while Simon Harris gets it worst as the butt of the joke.
The Tánaiste gets the wrong end of the stick in this parody as he picks "the Lions" when asked who's going to win
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Admittedly, politicians make for the easiest targets in skits like these
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This is what Kerry and Donegal will be battling for on Sunday afternoon
Moore - AKA Conor Sketches - crosses party divides by also mimicking
The other non-GAA figures to crop up in the amusing skit range from
Our personal highlight is the pitch-perfect impersonation of Football Review Committee chair Gavin uttering egotistical words that would never come out of his mouth.
Joe Brolly of course makes an appearance. The real Brolly has also
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The Derry native had already been on the record about how
He'd made that initial prediction about "not seeing any flaws" in Jim McGuinness' side on his
But he expanded on why he's so gung-ho in that belief while appearing alongside Pat Spillane and hurling greats Eddie Brennan and John Mullane on the
The 56-year-old set out: "I think Donegal will win because they're multi-purpose. They're not relying on one individual.
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"They've worked with a basketball coach. McGuinness actually said it the week that the new rules were unveiled.
"He said 'We're going back to the old game, this is all about scoring rate.' They're scoring 1-27, 1-28, 3-25.
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"Paddy McBrearty was asked after the All-Ireland semi-final about how he'd be pushing for a place in starting fifteen and he said he'd be pushing for a place in the matchday 26!
"There's massive competition there because Jim has this messianic quality."
A few minutes later Spillane then gave his view that he'd marginally give the edge to the Kingdom. When he mentioned that Donegal had a few weaknesses, Brolly called on him to be more specific.
To which the eight-time All-Ireland winner replied: "Their running game is a hard game to sustain for 70 minutes. Zonal defence is a weakness. There's space to be exploited there by a kicking team.
"The first half against Monaghan showed that as Monaghan switched the play from one side to the other. They'd an overload and took them on one-on-one and were very impressive.
"So zonal marking, running in transition and Michael Murphy - no different from David Clifford - if he's contained (Kerry can win).
"The new rules suit Kerry, Croke Park suits them as a heads up kicking team."
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The two counties did of course contest the 2014 decider with McGuinness saying this week that
One instant improvement this time around will be that
The Kerry county board have confirmed that Jack O'Connor's charges will line out in their alternative dark blue kit whilst Donegal
Following on from the
