Paul Galvin return a ‘win-win situation’ for Kerry

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The All-Ireland winning manager insisted it was Galvin’s own decision to leave Dublin and return to living in Kerry, “a big part of the jigsaw” in his retirement u-turn. Though it was never franked as the reason he walked away in February 2014, Fitzmaurice said the commute from the capital twice-weekly wasn’t feasible and so his circumstances had to change was he to once again don the green and gold.

Galvin first intimated his desire to come out of retirement in mid-December, management rubber-stamping his return at the end of January. A sense of “unfinished business” and “an itch still to scratch” lured the four-time All-Ireland winner back onto the inter-county scene, according to brother-in-law Fitzmaurice. He was adamant there was no proviso to Galvin’s return.