O’Sullivan gets serious as Kerry eye League crown

THERE’S a decades-old joke they love to tell in Kerry about the family who kept their child appeased by stringing a glittering display across its pram, a display the child would jingle occasionally to keep amused.

Dangling on that string? “John Joe’s National League medals boy!” Ah yes, such was their currency way back then.

Yesterday, Kerry full-back Tom O’Sullivan was in Adare Manor with Galway full-forward Michael Meehan to promote the meeting of two of Gaelic football’s elite this Sunday in a pivotal last-round game of this year’s National League, and the question was asked — how many National League medals do you have, Tom?