The Rathmore dynamo quietly goes about his business, putting out fires and solving problems for Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice, writes Dara Ó Cinnéide.

“Whatever happened to him? He was a great minor.”

It is difficult to tell exactly at what point players start to play for their manager as well as for their team. Players know immediately when everyone is pulling in the same direction, but it is that bit harder to figure it out from outside the group.

It came as no surprise to read that Ard Stiúrthóir CLG, Páraic Duffy, sees very little wrong with the Allianz National Football League about to begin again this weekend.

One of the most surprising aspects of last weekend’s drawn All-Ireland semi-final wasn’t so much that Dublin were reeled in when seven points up with over an hour gone, but that they still appear to be carrying the scars of last year’s semi- final defeat to Donegal.

An old joke much beloved of science students from a past life of mine: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.

All the signs point to Cork and Dublin victories in Croke Park tomorrow.

Though we live in a world that dreams of ending

They say nobody remembers the league but the truth is we all face into the spring competition hoping for something memorable.

"It doesn’t matter what you do because it’s going to happen anyway."