Banner football’s Special K

At 27, Paudie Kissane still hadn’t played Championship football for Cork. But he retired with one All-Ireland title, two Munster crowns, three National Leagues and an All Star award. And now he’s plotting Kerry’s downfall.

This is not Broadway. But it is an apprenticeship.

A league game in Cusack Park, Ennis, on the last Sunday of March and, on the sideline, two familiar, trim figures don bibs over their tracksuits.