O’Sullivan rises from bench to rescue Kingdom

Out of Dodge and into the next round, Kerry’s get out of jail card trick just about fooled Westmeath in a horrid affair in Mullingar yesterday.

On St Swithin’s Day, a storm cloud threatened to saturate Kerry football for the next five months never mind the next 40 days.

In the county’s list of close shave qualifiers, this would run a tight runner-up to Sligo’s run against them in Tralee three years ago.