Jack savours calm between storms

RTÉ last night announced a record championship TV audience this season of 602,000 for Kerry’s All-Ireland quarter-final demolition of Dublin, but they should have counted one viewer twice.

“I watched it when I went home,” admitted Kerry coach Jack O’Connor yesterday. “And I had another look at it this morning (Tuesday).

“I was too hyped up to go to bed when I got back from Dublin, didn’t hit the sack until four o’clock in the morning. The night after a game I never sleep too well although I slept very well on Sunday night. But I couldn’t turn up the volume with the lads upstairs in bed, so I watched it properly when I got up.”