Keegan eyes happy end to emotional year

It mightn’t have worked out the way he intended but Lee Keegan at least cleared his name.

That mattered. He maintains what he did to Kerry’s Johnny Buckley in the drawn All-Ireland semi-final was no sending-off matter.

Before that incident, when he appeared to kick out at the Kerry forward, Keegan was not just an All Star candidate but a player of the year contender too. After it, despite his provisional suspension being overturned, he was broken and beaten.