Stacks end 20-year wait in sizzling 20 minute spell

Mid Kerry 1-07 Austin Stacks 2-13 

That’s all it took in this one-sided affair, which couldn’t have been more removed from the drawn game seven days earlier. Two goals in the space of nine minutes and Stacks became a speck on the horizon that Mid Kerry had to squint to see.

But as manager Stephen Stack revealed afterwards, this was a victory 12 months in the making. His euphoria was in sharp contrast to the disenchanted figure he cut in Fitzgerald Stadium last October when Dr Crokes ran riot against his team.