Lyons: Time for Dublin to deliver

KEVIN HEFFERNAN once announced that an All-Ireland final win against Kerry was actually worth two. Tommy Lyons would go even further.

“Oh, I think it’s worth three. Kevin is playing it short,” said Lyons who went on to reel off supporting facts and figures which, while slightly inaccurate, painted the same depressing picture for his former side as the real numbers.

Dublin have beaten Kerry just twice in the championship since 1934 with both victories squeezed into the back-to-back 1976 and 1977 seasons and they have failed to win one of the nine summer tussles between the counties since the second of those successes.