‘Nowadays if you want someone to tell you how great you were, find a Kerry fella and you can pat each other on the back’

He’s never gone for the media circus but Anton O’Toole is as passionate about Dublin football now as he was playing in six consecutive finals in the seventies.

IT’S funny, Anton O’Toole played in eight All-Ireland senior finals, and bar the 1976 decider with Kerry, he never remembers feeling nervous. But there’s a knot in the pit of his stomach this week.

The Dubs are finally back in September with Kerry on the horizon.