BRENDAN O'BRIEN: ‘He would just tell you to do something and you would do it’

For 24 years, they’ve been funnelling through Annascaul and Lispole, some even over the Conor Pass, into west Kerry from all corners, drawn to the peninsula by the charisma of one man.

The Comortas Peile will go ahead without Páidi Ó Sé later this month but go ahead it assuredly will, even if the vastness of the operation began to dawn on his family and friends after the old rogue died so suddenly last December.

Páidi being Páidi, he didn’t leave them with any road maps. There was no business plan to speak of, not one that existed beyond the inches between his ears anyway, but various people have picked up different strains and tied them all together all the same.