Delight for Longford as Ryan rules roost

THE smile on Glen Ryan’s face said it all.

Had it been Longford on the wrong side of that one-point deficit the likelihood is that it would have been him and not John O’Mahony saying farewell to the troops in the bowels of Pearse Park.

Longford did come within four points of taking Kerry’s scalp at the same venue 12 months earlier but that had been a solitary peak in a valley of troughs since the former Kildare All Star took control.