Kerry stars gutted as Buckley exit massive blow, says Quirke

A number of Kerry footballers are “very disappointed” that coach Donie Buckley has left the Kingdom’s senior management team, according to former All-Ireland winner Michéal Quirke.

Quirke, who worked under Buckley when he was involved with the Kerry senior panel last year, believes the Castleisland man’s decision to leave the set-up is a massive blow to the county ahead of the Munster championship.

“It’s a big blow to Kerry. When he was involved last year, and even though I came back late, the boys were raving about him and they were delighted with his stuff. It was all new, it was different every night, the ball-work, the conditioning games, it was really interesting and it was great that it wasn’t the same stuff every session,” Quirke said.