McCarthy ignited title charge in Tullamore

RUN a finger back along Kerry’s pained path to yesterday’s peak and it is one of endless bumps and bruises. Until late July, that is, when Jack O’Connor took his troops to Tullamore for a meeting with Antrim.

It was in O’Connor Park when the road finally began to even out and Kerry finally built up speed and kicked through the gears with increasing confidence and purpose all the way to yesterday’s emphatic victory.

Liam Bradley’s lads clung on like limpets that day, though their minds and bodies still ached from their Ulster Championship defeat six days earlier, but this was the day when Kerry would rediscover their mojo.