O’Mahony blow for Kerry

KERRY’s defensive options for the Championship suffered a fresh blow last night after All Star Aidan O’Mahony withdrew from the panel for “personal reasons”.

The Rathmore man is a four-time All-Ireland medal winner with the Kingdom and, ironically, had regained some of his best form in this year’s National League.

With Mike McCarthy on an extended break, O’Mahony was given a prolonged run at centre back and seemed to be edging his way back to the form which made him one of the country’s top defenders in 2006-07.