Kieran Shannon: Jack O’Connor and Kerry earned their luck in this Championship

Peter Keane deserves to be acknowledged for how good and unfortunate he was. But in O’Connor Kerry have more than a lucky general

WINNER: Kerry manager Jack O'Connor during the homecoming celebrations of the All-Ireland Senior Football Champions Kerry in Tralee, Kerry. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Although he wasn’t a great man himself to acknowledge the contribution of others who had gone before him (having not even picked up the phone to those he culled in the autumn of 2018), there was something quite sad about Peter Keane being barely mentioned on Sunday evening by his former charges or anyone else.

Maybe it would have been a bit much all right for Seán O’Shea to go all Peter Canavan and laud his former manager in the manner that Tyrone deity shone a light from the steps of the Hogan Stand on the work and legacy of Art McRory and Eugene McKenna.