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Christy O'Connor: Making players commodities not answer to Kerry's AFL drain pain

Inspirational Dingle midfielder Mark O’Connor - and Austin Stacks opponent Ben Murphy - will underline Kerry's AFL angst in Sunday's county final.
Christy O'Connor: Making players commodities not answer to Kerry's AFL drain pain

Mark O'Connor of Dingle. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Ten years ago, after the epic 2015 Cork-Kerry Munster minor semi-final, which Kerry won by one point after extra-time, the former Kerry player Micheál Ó Sé said that it was the best minor game he had seen “in 40 years”.

Ó Sé was more than qualified to make that judgement; for decades, he’d been the voice of inter-county minor hurling and football, having commentated in Irish on the All-Ireland minor finals for RTÉ before the rights switched to TG4.

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