Jack of all shades

Kerry may be in transition but they’ve enough nous to outlast their rivals for Sam, believes coach Jack O’Connor

THIS”, grimaces Jack O’Connor as he looks disdainfully at the dictaphone, “is visit-to-the-dentist territory”. It’s not the most encouraging portent either when the Kerry manager drills down further on the nerve. “Do you enjoy getting a tooth out?”

How grumpy is Grumpy Jack, as the cider-makers might label him? At this pregnant moment in the GAA season, a little. Though everything is relative. Bark and bite stuff. If journalists aren’t hovering, the antennae are lowered.