I received a text last week. “Shots fired… Liam Kearns had a right pop at you”. Basically, the Tipperary manager felt my assessment of the challenge his team will pose to Kerry in Sunday’s Munster final was, in his words, very ‘blasé’. Of course Eamon Fitz wasn’t overly happy either… everyone’s a critic.

Kerry chairman Patrick O’Sullivan has played down the significance of a mishap involving the county’s bus prior to Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final.