Jack O'Connor interview: 'I'm more of an overseer, more of a kind of a director now'

The inevitability of these things is such that Jack O’Connor had no sooner agreed last autumn to a new two-year term as Kerry manager than an assumption floated that it would be one more campaign and done. The second one was just for insurance. And the optics. 

By this autumn he’ll be 66 and either the satisfied owner of an All-Ireland back to back or the crestfallen subject of a winter of bitter native discontent. With a couple of grandchildren to be cherishing, who needs that?

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