Kerry to advance as Dubs work still in progress

ALL of a sudden the Bank of Ireland football championship has taken on an exciting look.

Fermanagh's remarkable achievement in getting to the semi-final has caught the public imagination and there is the exciting prospect of Westmeath making it there for the first time also. But inevitably, the main focus is on the clash of Dublin and Kerry in the quarter-final in Croke Park this afternoon.

It evokes memories of epic clashes (some of them bruising encounters) between the counties from 1975 onwards.