One final piece of 2018 silverware for Dr Crokes and it was as convincing as the 22-point margin suggests, an evisceration of Munster IFC winners Kilcummin to claim a 30th East Kerry SFC title and a first since 2013.

A marathon few weeks of football for Dr Crokes draws to a close tomorrow with Pat O’Shea’s charges rounding out 2018 with an East Kerry final against Kilcummin.

GLEN ROVERS have proposed two motions for Cork County Board’s annual convention which could see the involvement of divisional and college sides drastically altered.

The sound-bites coming out of the Gaelic Grounds late on Sunday afternoon gave the firmest impression that anything other than All-Ireland club glory for Dr Crokes on March 17 next year would see this campaign written off as a disappointment.

Colm Cooper continues to be one of the first players to arrive at Lewis Road for a Crokes training session. Half-an-hour before Pat O’Shea gathers his charges for a warm-up, Cooper and Tony Brosnan are out on the field kicking points. However deep his frustrations at being dropped from the starting team, the 35-year-old has kept his feelings under wraps. As ever, he’s allowing his football do the talking.

Dr Crokes midfielder Daithí Casey doesn’t fancy a winter without football.

It’s almost as if Dr Crokes are being punished for their latest club championship run, a dysfunctional fixtures programme meaning there is the very strong possibility they’ll be playing football during the opening three weekends of December and, potentially, a further two games over the Christmas period.

Twenty-five scores from play. A 21-point winning margin. Eleven names on the scoresheet. A 10th Munster final appearance secured, the club’s seventh this decade and third on the trot.

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Three seasons into his Dr Crokes senior career and Shane Murphy still has no idea what it’s like to finish October without a county championship title.

A Gavin White goal in the final minute of normal time sealed a 13th senior county title for Dr Crokes, putting them top of the county’s honours list.

On these pages this day last week, we read of fallen empires, Caltra and Crossmolina, both of whom achieved All-Ireland Club football glory early in the last decade, suffering relegation to the intermediate ranks in Galway and Mayo respectively.

Kerry’s 2018 championship ambitions have received a setback with the news that Dr Crokes midfielder Johnny Buckley has left the senior football panel.

Nemo Rangers expect star attacker Paul Kerrigan to figure in the All-Ireland series.

Provincial championship victories for Cork clubs over Kerry are infrequent enough for yesterday’s Munster Club SFC final to be toasted beyond the confines of Nemo Rangers’ expansive Trabeg base. But giddy suggestions their 0-16 to 0-11 victory over Dr Crokes may be the trigger for a Cork football resurgence might be stretching the point some.

Nemo Rangers (Cork) 0-16 Dr Crokes (Kerry) 0-11: What should have been a landslide was still a landmark victory for Nemo Rangers. Few teams don’t regret spurning six goal chances against reigning All-Ireland champions but then Nemo have long been a different breed.

The end of a long year for Colm Cooper came yesterday in Páirc Uí Rinn. 

Nemo Rangers 0-16 Dr Crokes 0-11

The best ever and the worst ever. So goes Paul Kerrigan’s description of Nemo’s last two Munster finals.

“Unusual,” is Dr Crokes selector Harry O’Neill’s reply when quizzed on the coin toss used to decide the venue for Sunday’s Munster club final against Nemo Rangers.

Dr Crokes have been thrown out of the East Kerry SFC (O'Donoghue Cup) and could face a potential fine for not fulfilling last Sunday's semi-final fixture against Legion.

Johnny Buckley reckons AIB All-Ireland club football title holders Dr Crokes are a superior force now to the version that was "blown away" by Nemo Rangers when they last met in a provincial decider.

A record-equalling 12th senior county title was special but Dr Crokes captain Daithí Casey says the players gleaned more satisfaction from defying those who questioned their appetite.

It’s what the younger generation call FOMO (fear of missing out).

A moment that captures the spirit of the GAA

AIB All-Ireland Club SFC semi-final

Dr Crokes, courtesy of this 18-point annihilation of The Nire, sauntered to a fourth Munster title in six years this afternoon.

A powerful start to the second-half – during which Dr Crokes outscored their opponents by 1-6 to 1-1 – propelled the Killarney outfit to a fifth Kerry SFC title in seven years.

Dr Crokes 5-19 West Kerry 1-09: A masterclass from Dr Crokes’ Tony Brosnan was one of the few highlights of this dreadfully one-sided Kerry SFC first round clash in Killarney on Saturday night.

Shannon Rangers 0-9 Dr Crokes 2-16: It was all so easy for Dr Crokes who had 13 points to spare over last year’s semi-finalists Shannon Rangers in this Kerry SFC first round tie at Tarbert on Saturday evening.

Dr Crokes will meet Dingle in the Kerry Senior Club FC final after they got the better of Rathmore and Austin Stacks respectively in Tralee yesterday.

Colm Cooper counts himself fortunate to be from a town in Kerry as rural clubs in the county battle for survival.