‘Mentally tired? That’s just an excuse’

TUESDAY evening before six o’clock and Kerry selector Eamon Fitzmaurice is pacing out and aligning training cones in Killarney with the precision of an engineer.

Slowly the Kerry footballers make their entrance and soon are sprinkled about, manning the training accoutrements in three of Fitzgerald Stadium’s four corners. However it’s the group working with what seems to be a slingshot catapult that are having the most fun.

Not least when Tomás O Sé ends up arse over kettle trying to keep pace with midfielder Seamus Scanlon. Everyone doubles up laughing.