Kieran Shannon: Whelan's Dublin brought meaning to league games with Kerry

League games between the pair might not be what makes Kerry and Dublin special, but they can make winter nights special.

David Clifford in action against David Byrne of Dublin during the Allianz Football League Division 1 match.

As those RTÉ promos tend to ask before the pair of them square off yet again in some All-Ireland semi-final or final, what is it about Dublin versus Kerry? 

Well, not the league anyway, if you were to go by the choice of words or images for those montages or indeed the literature the most fabled and enduring rivalry in football has prompted.