Keen and able

Jim O'Sullivan, who is preparing to cover his 70th All-Ireland final, speaks to the respective captains of Tyrone and Kerry.

There is the challenge of stopping the side which beat the best of the rest en route to this decider. And there may be 'baggage' from the 2003 semi-final defeat, but Kingdom skipper Declan O'Sullivan insists that there is 'no extra motivation' for them to succeed. "It so happens to be Tyrone," he says.

O'Sullivan a club mate of Jack O'Connor received the captaincy after South Kerry won the county championship and his own side, Dromid Pearses won the divisional title.