With only a brief pause for prize-giving, Kerry drive on

Such is the way of these things now Munster finals wins, even four of them in a row, are viewed through the prism and in the context of August and September.

As an argument for the retention of the provincial championship format, the unseemly haste with which the debate moves on makes a fairly leaky case for the Remain As Is traditionalists.

The monies harvested from yesterday’s Killarney crowd of 21,512 will fund much good work, but the bean counters won’t want too many finals without a rush of red on the terraces.