Kearns relishes underdogs tag against Kerry kingpins

TOMORROW, in Cashel, Tipperary champions Aherlow face Kerry kingpins Dr Crokes in the Munster club SFC semi-final.

The Premier men are the underdogs, but there is something that perhaps people would need to consider; the manager of the little parish club from deep in the glens is Liam Kearns, a man no stranger to manning the sidelines on big championship days.

His record? Right then, here it is, in his own words: “I started managing football teams with the Garda College. We had never played in colleges football and when I arrived I was told I was taking over the team. In my four years there we won two Trench Cups back-to-back. We then got to a Sigerson Cup semi-final, then the final – they were all ‘firsts’.