Like Kerry, Paul Murphy finding his feet on the dry, fast going as summer heat rises

It isn’t difficult to visualise training night conversations between a frustrated Paul Murphy and his sanguine Kerry manager Jack O’Connor.

A quarter of a century in senior inter-county management gifts the Dromid gaffer with a feel for these things. Takes off the cap, a rub of the forehead. An understanding wince. Steady, don’t push. Progress, bit by bit. Don’t lose the ceann.

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