Kerry sweat on O’Connor

Kerry GAA officials will attempt over the next 48 hours to talk Jack O’Connor out of resignation as inter-county coach as the dearth of quality alternatives began to sink in in the Kingdom.

The county’s GAA chairman Patrick O’Sullivan will bid to meet O’Connor as soon as possible after the coach indicated to his fellow selectors that he intended to step down with immediate effect.

However with odds-on favourite Eamonn Fitzmaurice not inclined to step in as O’Connor’s successor for at least another two years, members of the board executive are left in no doubt as to the urgency of the situation.