Many prominent GAA figures, led by the association’s president Liam O’Neill, attended the funeral of the mother of star Kerry footballer Colm Cooper in Killarney at the weekend.

Any Kerry footballer who believes All-Ireland medals are the key to the Dáil has been advised to think again.

The late Con Houlihan had “an extraordinary pride of place”.

A candle flickered and a green and gold Kerry flag billowed gently in the breeze as people came to pay their respects at Con Houlihan’s monument in his native Castleisland.