O’Connor’s late burst propels Kildare

Dublin 0-17 Kildare 1-16 (aet)

It is impossible to think that 5,000 people would have filed into Parnell Park for a pre-season friendly on a bitterly cold January night had the man they called Heffo not done what he did in those same parts 40 years ago.

It was in the Donnycarney ground where the foundations for the famed Dublin revival of the 1970s were laid and both Dublin and Kildare honoured the man with a level of entertainment that belied the calendar and gloopy conditions underfoot.