Dublin-Kerry cold war is set to get even colder

Getting chilly, isn’t it?

Just don’t be fooled by the shorter evenings. Dismiss at once the falling of the feeblest of leaves. The nip in the air? That would be the cold war: Dublin-Kerry.

The tensions between these two juggernauts will escalate the closer we get to Sunday week. Ciaran Whelan has mentioned there will be “propaganda” but on Saturday evening, we were offered a Molotov apéritif when Jim Gavin sent a thinly-veiled message to Eamonn Fitzmaurice that he is cognisant Kerry have been keeping a close eye on Dublin. “I know their management team were here for the Leinster final, the league final, the last two games, so they’ve got a good look at us.”