Seamus Hickey, who yesterday retired after a 13-year inter-county career, is expected to be the sole departure from Limerick’s All-Ireland-winning panel.

The new chairman of the Gaelic Players Association fields an obvious point early in the conversation.

The main prize is Sunday in Killarney, but the junior footballers of Cork and Kerry will be striving for their own bit of provincial glory on Wednesday night when the counties meet in the Munster final at Páirc Uí Rinn.