Unfinished business lures Paul Galvin back

The sense of unfinished business has lured four-time All-Ireland winner Paul Galvin into the unlikeliest of sporting u-turns — a return to the Kerry fold last night in Tralee, with a stated aim of winning a fifth Celtic Cross medal next September.

Kerry players had to do a double-take in the dressing room of the County Board grounds in Caherslee just before 7pm last night when Galvin, 35 since November, arrived with his kit-bag in tow, 13 months after he unexpectedly called it quits on the eve of a National League game against Dublin in Croke Park.

That, comparatively speaking, was a minor tremor against the seismic decision, confirmed to close friends and family members in recent days, that he was to return to the Kerry squad with immediate effect.