Run the rule over the best imports to have featured for the provinces down the years and it makes for a diverse cast of characters.

WHEN the microphones are off and the cameras have stopped rolling, Kerry will reflect on this decade of five All-Ireland titles and eight finals and possibly conclude that yesterday was the sweetest of all.

RTÉ last night announced a record championship TV audience this season of 602,000 for Kerry’s All-Ireland quarter-final demolition of Dublin, but they should have counted one viewer twice.