There won’t be an announcement any time soon. It’s not his way.

I’M sitting at a small table in a restaurant in Castleisland with the most influential man in Kerry football over the last ten years for company.

From a county that bred mythical footballing giants, Kerry’s 2014 crop of defenders are more tight and tidy than terrifying.

Sometime, hopefully, an enterprising tv production unit might take a punt and invest a year of their careers living under the skin of a parish GAA club.

The case for the defence rests.

The €3 million-plus the GAA will pocket from the September 28 replay of yesterday’s All-Ireland hurling final is the cherry on top of a summer of bumper championship attendances for the association.

Sport needs to be partisan.

Word of his departure had reached the press room before Conor Counihan did, and though some were surprised he didn’t see out the second year of his agreed term, it was an honourable exit for a thoroughly decent man.

LIFE, said one sage, can be neatly categorised into dogs and lamp posts.

He is still finding his way as Kerry coach, but Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s open-door approach to media duties has already won him kudos from the laptop brigade.