Football in Kerry has healed much harsher wounds than Galvin spat

THE rest of the country may have been preoccupied with the Lisbon Treaty, but in Kerry the topic of conversation this week was the brainstorm that seized Paul Galvin when he threw a tantrum and slapped the notebook out of the hand of referee Paddy Russell.

The word in Kerry was that Paul saw a bee land on the notebook and he was only trying to protect the ref by swatting the apian intruder.

The bee took off towards the linesman and Paul went to protect him too, and Tomás O’Shea as well. If you believe Bertie won the money on the horses, or that Sinn Féin was concerned about our democracy, you could believe the story of the belligerent bee, too.