John Fogarty: Undercooked Kerry need an All-Ireland league

A dejected Paudie Clifford of Kerry after the All-Ireland SFC semi-final defeat to Tyrone at Croke Park. The Munster Championship can no longer be trusted to prime Kerry for later All-Ireland Championship battles, says John Fogarty. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

You wouldn’t know it but Gaelic football faces a potentially seismic event next month.

Not the prospect of Mayo ending the 70-year famine or Tyrone leapfrogging them in the roll of honour for their fourth Sam Maguire Cup but the Special Congress pencilled in to take place the weekend after the final.