There are a pair of reasons folk serious about their Kerry football are scanning the horizons with intent and intensity this week.

CAVAN introduce two debutantes for the Ulster SFC second round clash with Fermanagh at Breffni Park on Saturday night. John McCutcheon is named at right half back with Eugene Keating in the pivotal centre back position.

NICHOLAS MURPHY is likely to be fit to play with Cork in Saturday’s Allianz NFL clash with Laois at O’Moore Park, Portlaoise. The All Star damaged a tendon against Fermanagh last week and was replaced by John Hayes.

GER REIDY of Castleisland Desmonds and Aidan O’Shea from the Glenbeigh-Glencarr club are the two new faces on the Kerry team to play Donegal in the opening round of the Allianz NFL at Austin Park, Tralee tomorrow.

LIMERICK supporters may wonder if there is life after Liam Kearns as their senior footballers gear up for their first Munster championship game in five years without their former manager.

Thirty years after waking up in hospital to ask the nurses who won the All-Ireland he was playing in, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to make his victory speech, with a familiar figure in close attendance. Michael Moynihan and Murt Murphy report.

IF KERRY coach Jack O’Connor and his selectors fail to bring a 33rd All-Ireland football title to the county this year, it won’t be because they ducked the difficult decisions.

TWENTY-eight years on, Mickey ‘Ned’ O’Sullivan finally got to lift the Sam Maguire Cup, not in Croke Park where the honour was denied him in the 1975 All-Ireland football final against Dublin, but in Dunmanway where winning captains and their representatives over the last 75 years were honoured on Saturday.