No longer green but still gold

Kerry legend Maurice Fitzgerald talks to Diarmuid O’Flynn about his enduring passion for football, and his native South Kerry.

IN THE lead-up to tomorrow’s Kerry SFC final, with his team, South Kerry bidding for their first three-in-a-row of senior titles, when Maurice Fitzgerald agreed to this interview it was with one very definite proviso — he would not talk about Maurice Fitzgerald.

Too much had already been written about him, he said, more than he had ever wanted.