McCarthy ‘unlikely’ to return for Kerry

KERRY manager Jack O’Connor yesterday admitted it’s ‘unlikely’ that Mike McCarthy will be returning to inter-county football.

O’Connor revealed: “You can never say never with Mike. He was not coming back last year either but we managed to convince him. He has other commitments (family) now outside of football and they are important as well.”

The loss of McCarthy would be huge blow to the All-Ireland champions following the retirements of Darragh O Sé and Diarmuid Murphy along with the departures of Tadhg Kennelly and Tommy Walsh to Australian Rules Football from the side which defeated Cork in last year’s decider.