KERRY boss Jack O’Connor has questioned the performance of referee Joe McQuillan in Sunday’s All-Ireland decider, claiming it was more difficult for his players to win frees than it was for their opponents Dublin.

IT was only yesterday morning that the sharp pain of defeat hit Aidan O’Mahony.

IT’S on occasions such as these that people like Declan Kidney realise that their day’s work is never really done!

IN a most remarkable gesture of sportsmanship, Tomás Ó Sé handed Stephen Cluxton the match-winning ball following yesterday’s final whistle.

ALL-Ireland finals have tended to be joyous occasions for Jack O’Connor, his Kerry managerial record defined by days where he steered the county towards September success.

KERRY defender Marc Ó Sé last night predicted some of the long-serving members of the Kingdom squad will bring the curtain down on their inter-county careers in the wake of yesterday’s shattering All-Ireland final defeat by Dublin.

AFTER a season which saw him sidelined with freak injuries such as a piece of chicken getting caught in his throat and a ball breaking his finger, Michael Darragh Macauley may have feared he had broken a mirror.

DUBLIN coach Mickey Whelan hopes yesterday’s victory will stop former All-Ireland winners criticising the team.

TIPPERARY’S minor football campaign this year was a stirring tale long before yesterday’s All-Ireland decider in Croke Park.

HE was fresh from steering Tipperary to a rare All-Ireland football triumph but in the midst of the euphoric celebrations in Croke Park yesterday, David Power was already thinking of the future.

COURCEY ROVERS are just one step from senior ranks after surviving a stern test from Kilbrittain before a big crowd at Páirc Uí Rinn on Saturday.

IT was the result of their lives but the feeling in the Ireland World Cup squad as it decamped to the shores of Lake Taupo yesterday was that beating Australia was just the beginning of the journey.

AT the final whistle a couple of weeks ago , after John Mullane’s late goal had broken Limerick hearts in the Munster SHC semi-final, it was notable that losing manager Donal O’Grady was dry-eyed and dispassionate.

ST EUNAN’S ensured today’s Divison 3 Féile Peile na nÓg final wouldn’t be an all-Cork affair by dumping Macroom out of the tournament in the first of yesterday’s semi-finals at Whitechurch.

“C’MERE to me player, there’s a circus coming to the Lee Fields next week. You’ll fit in grand up there.”

LATE goals from Ger O’Brien and Anto Flood helped Bohemians keep their title hopes alive at Oriel Park last night.

BERNARD BROGAN has poured more salt into Kildare wounds by claiming he “was due” Sunday’s late dramatic free which won Dublin passage to the Leinster SFC final.

FERMANAGH captain Barry Owens has sensationally claimed there were county board officials wishing the team were going to be beaten by London in last Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier.

YOUR report of last week’s meeting of Kerry County Council treated us to a re-run of the ‘environmentalist and the snail’ story (Snail blamed for delays to Cork-Kerry road plan, June 22). We were told a judicial review on behalf of the snail by “environmentalists” was holding up the road.

AN investigation into the violent scenes that marred the end of last Friday’s Tyrone ladies senior football final is officially underway.