Aidan O’Mahony:Time to let youth have its fling

Veteran Aidan O’Mahony bid adieu to the Kerry jersey yesterday after admitting to himself he couldn’t give it the necessary “110%” this year.

Hailed by Marc Ó Sé as “the most professional player I ever played with”, the 36-year-old spoke of how it was time to let youth have a fling in the Kingdom set-up, having first dipped his toes into those waters in 2003.

O’Mahony was captured crying after last August’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Dublin, but that loss wasn’t the trigger for his decision.