Ó Sé decision has full support

LARRY TOMPKINS has welcomed the fact that Kerry captain Darragh Ó Sé has been cleared to play against Cork in the All-Ireland semi-final.

It's not too often I'd say this, but I agree totally with the Cork manager, as would any true football supporter. The only way to play a team, to beat a team (I think Cork will prevail), is at their best, and without their brilliant captain, Kerry are most certainly not that.

As to the circumstances surrounding his controversial reinstatement, and again, it's not often I'm in total agreement with GAA officialdom, I believe the Kerry County Board were absolutely right in what they did. Frequently in club games that are held just before big inter-county occasions, if there is an inter-county star playing, he will be provoked by the opposition, liberties taken that otherwise might not, on the assumed grounds that he can't/won't/daren't retaliate.