Silverware to silence the Kingdom’s critics

THERE will be a lot of talk this week of demons banished and ghosts laid to rest, of this Kerry team finally delivering on the big occasion.

It’s talk that the Kerry players won’t tune into. People said Kerry had to win this final, but the team never saw it like that.

At least, their captain didn’t. It’s about 20 minutes after his memorable victory speech, in the native tongue, and Dara Ó Cinneide is running his mind through the past couple of years. The heavy defeat to Meath, frailties exposed by Northern teams.