When push comes to shove, Kerry prevail

JACK O’CONNOR suggested the decisive penalty might have been poetic justice for misdemeanours against Kerry in Tralee last Sunday week.

James Horan described it as “an unbelievable decision” while his goalkeeper Robert Hennelly felt he was charged by Darran O’Sullivan.

Whatever the view, nobody could dispute that this game in Castlebar swung six minutes from the end of normal time when referee Maurice Deegan adjudged that the Mayo goalkeeper, making his league debut, had fouled the ion-rushing O’Sullivan.