O’Mahony: Most special of them all

Anyone happening upon the Poitín Still in Rathcoole last Monday night might have gone cool on the prospects of Kerry lifting a 37th All-Ireland football title less than a week later.

Hunched around a table, after further medical intervention in the Santry Sports Clinic were Aidan O’Mahony (ankle), Peter Crowley (ankle) and Declan O’Sullivan (knees). Each, though, with a grim determination to keep pain at bay for one more week. One more resolute than the next.

“Once you get to the (final) weekend, you’ll be fine because the adrenaline kicks in anyway,” veteran defender O’Mahony said yesterday, a fifth Celtic Cross soothing sores.