Murphy: We may never enjoy semi-final experience again

"Those lads may play with Kerry for another dozen years, and they will never experience something like that again," says Kerry keeper-turned-selector Diarmuid Murphy.

“That wasn’t a season highlight, that was a career highlight,” Murphy said of the All-Ireland semi-final roller coaster with Mayo.

Not one given to hyperbole, that’s quite a statement. Detached and relatively sober on the sideline, the Dingle man is a trusted ally and a reliable ear for Eamonn Fitzmaurice. Those who pigeon-hole him as a goalkeeping coach to Brendan Kealy and Brian Kelly do him a grave disservice.