Kerry sweat on Ó Sé and O’Mahony

Kerry are faced a number of niggling injury concerns in the build-up to their All-Ireland semi-final against Dublin.

Tomás Ó Sé (back) and Aidan O’Mahony (elbow) both visited specialists in Dublin this week as they race to rejoin preparations for the Kingdom’s September 1 clash at Croke Park.

Rathmore’s O’Mahony, who dislocated an elbow in training before the Munster final, suffered a setback, and had to return to hospital as an infection had festered. He’s now considered doubtful for the game against Dublin, though veteran Tomás Ó Sé should recover from a back spasm.

Bryan Sheehan aggravated an achilles problem in a recent training session and is also rated very doubtful while the semi will also come too soon for utility player Jonathan Lyne.

Anthony Maher and James O’Donoghue have both returned to training after hamstring problems.

Meanwhile, Wicklow footballer Dean Healy has quit the game, labelling his county board ‘disgusting’.

“As it stands, I won’t be committing to playing with the county next year,” he told the Wicklow People.

“As players, we bear the brunt of the criticism for how the county plays but people out there don’t understand what goes on behind the scenes.

“No one needs to tell me I’ve played bad, I’m my own worst enemy when it comes to that but I’m disgusted with the County Board and the musical chairs that goes on down there.

“You don’t see them all year and when we beat Longford they’re all in the dressing-room.

“And then there’s the problems during the year. Lads not getting their mileage paid on time, finishing training and there would be no hot water in Aughrim, no proper chartered physio or doctor at training.

“You’d have lads trying to chase up their expenses for things like physio. It’s not on. I don’t mind being the scapegoat. I don’t mind complaining about what goes on with the county panel off the field of play.”

Elsewhere, former Armagh sharpshooter Steven McDonnell believes Donegal are finished following their 16-point annihilation to Mayo earlier this month.

“You could see in the body language of the Donegal players. They haven’t got the back-up in their squad and I don’t see Donegal coming back to that level for quite a while,” he told the Irish News.

“The Mayo game was such a crushing defeat. If they had been beaten by three or four points at least they could say, ‘Well, we weren’t that far away’, but they were so over-run.

“It was the manner of their collapse. It wasn’t just the Mayo game — the Ulster final was disappointing as well.

“You can’t remain at the top [for long] with that type of a system. It’s high energy and your body takes a lot of hits.

“They went through the motions in the National League. They said it was unimportant and their training was geared towards the championship, but the three teams that are left in the championship were in the National League semi-finals. The National League is important.”