It’s a measure of Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s standing in Kerry that the decision to relegate Colm Cooper to the bench today was met if not with indifference then with a rueful sense of acceptance.

MAURICE Fitzgerald won his first county senior championship medal yesterday.

I WILL tell you something I have heard on more than a few occasions in various press boxes up and down the country: “Ah Flynn, you’re showing yourself up again, Ballyhea, only a junior hurler.”