Kilmurray begins mind games

IT’S over a quarter of a century now since Kevin Kilmurray spent a week planning for a Sunday where beating Laois was the focus.

This is a span that seems all the wider when the 50-odd miles separating his current abode in Dublin and his home town of Daingean are taken into account.

“In my era we won three Leinsters as well as two All-Irelands,” says Kilmurray. “I sound like Pat Spillane saying that, but all that’s long gone now. The psychological advantage that things like that used to bring to the table is gone all over Ireland.