Several Irish and Belfast outlets publish a multi-part series ranking what they describe as the 50 best All-Ireland final displays from the last 50 years. The series is broken into parts that count down through different ranges of places, covering both Gaelic football and hurling performances across the finals.
Irish Independent and Belfast Telegraph both run multiple installments of the same ranking project. The outlets publish different “parts” in their countdown sequences, with some parts focusing on mid-range positions and others covering the later stages of the list. The presented content follows the same overall format—counting down by place numbers and spanning both codes—but each outlet’s individual article corresponds to a specific segment of the ranking.
Across the sources provided, the key point of difference is not the ranking concept itself, but the specific part and range each article covers at the time of publication (for example, installments that run from the 40s into the 30s versus those that run from the 20s into the teens).
