Showdown replaces the weather as the most talked about topic

JOHN CRONIN isn’t keeping his opinions to himself ahead of Sunday’s All-Ireland final between his native Kerry and Cork.

A publican in Brosna, Cronin is also the local postman whose daily route includes excursions into the neighbouring parish of Rockchapel which is over the border in Co Cork. The Croke Park showdown has replaced the weather as the most talked about topic along the borderline.

“You don’t seriously think we are going to let this one go,” he said. “This will be the icing on the cake for us. We’ll always be winning Munster finals from Cork, but Sunday’s game is different. Victory would settle once and for all which the best county in football is.