No Garden leave for evergreen O’Dwyer

Wicklow v Carlow

Take last January as an example. With the country caught in a cold snap and Wicklow, one of the counties hardest hit by snowdrifts and icy roads, the Garden county boss continued commuting from his Waterville base taking training sessions and plotting for the championship which begins against Carlow tomorrow.

Here is a man who, by his own admission, has an ‘addiction’ to the game of football and, a secondary obsession with driving. A man whose ‘love’ of the game remains undiminished from the time he ended a hugely successful playing career in the same year he was appointed as Kerry manager in 1974.