There’s the top floor. And then there’s the penthouse. In Kerry football terms, Dr Crokes continue their tenancy of that piece of real estate where only the best strut their stuff.

One of the worst series of bends in the country is to be rectified, at a cost of €10m.

“Unusual,” is Dr Crokes selector Harry O’Neill’s reply when quizzed on the coin toss used to decide the venue for Sunday’s Munster club final against Nemo Rangers.

Johnny Buckley remembers the afternoon well, standing helplessly with a water bottle in his hand, as Crokes were torpedoed around the Mallow pitch.

A public petition calling for action on a dangerous junction accessing Kerry’s county GAA grounds attracted over 1,500 signatures in just 24 hours.

It’s what the younger generation call FOMO (fear of missing out).

Advantage Kerry is Eoin Brosnan’s assessment of their delicately balanced All-Ireland semi-final replay with Mayo — even if he knows the Kingdom have already used up their get-out-of-jail card last Sunday.

KERINS O'Rahillys booked their place in the last eight of the Kerry SFC with a merited victory over their Dingle hosts at Pairc an Ághasaigh (2-13 to 3-9).

The sister of a woman cyclist who died in a traffic accident in Co Kerry last week is demanding the road authorities carry out urgent improvements to a notorious stretch of a bypass road.

Management loses games, players win them (Great GAA truisms, No 53 in a series). On the bad days, the ditch carps and criticises and moans about the sideline. Lambasts may be the association term. Clueless clowns. On Lewis Road in Killarney, you might catch a carp or two on the odd occasion Dr Crokes lose a game, but it’ll be a brave ditch hurler all the same. Or a fool.

Reigning champions St Brendan’s, Killarney and Coláíste Chríost Rí both recorded their third victories of the campaign to finish at the head of their respective groups.

There’s no side-stepping the issue anymore. No more games left to deflect the conversation. As Johnny Buckley put it on his way back into the Crokes dressing-room on Sunday, now they can “officially” begin talking about an All-Ireland club semi-final.

The Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final line-up will begin to take shape after this afternoon’s full programme of games.

Daithí Casey didn’t enjoy looking in at Legion or Austin Stacks carrying the Kerry flag in Munster in recent years.

Dr Crokes 2-16 Kenmare District 1-12: They’re back. The famine on Lewis Road, although brief, is no more. 

A local has emerged as the €2.3m-plus buyer of a Killarney town-centre, modern, retail-based investment property called The Courtyard.

Dr Crokes 3-15 Austin Stacks 3-9: Dr Crokes came out on top in a feisty Credit Union Kerry County SFL Division One clash at Lewis Road that doubled as the 2015 Kerry County League final.

Austin Stacks 2-10 Laune Rangers 1-6: Austin Stacks retained their place in the Kerry senior football championship for 2016 and consigned Laune Rangers to the intermediate grade for the first time since 1969.

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 1-11 De La Salle, Macroom 1-3: Holders Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne are still alive in this season’s Corn Ui Mhuiri, after proving far too strong for De La Salle, Macroom at Lewis Road, Killarney, despite playing almost the entire second half with 14 players.

Our exchange of salutations with Conor McCarthy in Killarney on Saturday was a brief one. 

A warning has been given of the risk of further deaths and serious crashes at a dangerous junction, on the main N22 Cork to Tralee road, unless safety is improved.

If exchanges on the pitch were fiercely contested, they were no less competitive when management got around to discussing the replay of the Corn Uí Mhuirí final next Sunday.

Corn Uí Mhuirí quarter-final (all 1.30pm)

KERRY SFC REPLAY:

A sizeable retail investment in one of Killarney town’s most central modern developments, the Courtyard, has come for sale on behalf of three private investors, offering a c 12% return to a new owner.

Recently appointed Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe is being lobbied to get work started on building the long-awaited Macroom town bypass.

All Ireland SFC Final

Dr Crokes 0-15 Killarney Legion 0-17

Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne 3-14 De La Salle 3-09

Dr Crokes 3-16 Loughmore-Castleiney 1-5

Dr Crokes 1-11 Castlehaven 0-08

Early next month, Fionn Fitzgerald will board a flight in Shannon bound for Dallas, Texas.

Castlehaven centre-back Damien Cahalane, right, will be available for Sunday’s Munster Club SFC quarter-final with Dr Crokes.

It’s Championship game No 76 for Colm Cooper tomorrow, 32 of them on Jones’ Road. Kerry may be in transition, but the Gooch understands that shouldn’t alter Kingdom expectations of success against their old rivals in front of an 82,000 sellout at headquarters

Dank Sundays in December aren’t the stage for a carnival, but there was the faintest sense of a football freak show at Páirc Uí Chaoimh yesterday.