‘There’s only a poisoned few at it, a very small minority’

Selector Mikey Sheehy and coach Pádraic Corcoran stood with Éamonn Fitzmaurice for all six of his years as Kerry senior football manager. In a turbulent last 12 months, they weren’t spared much rod but it’s the players they feel most for.

Only returning from injury, it was out of duty more than anything else that Shane Enright travelled to Inis Mór last month to represent Kerry at the launch of the All-Ireland senior football championship.

The chances of him starting any of the Super 8 games were slim but he had been asked by management to give the Munster champions a face and he obliged.