VIDEO: Second-half onslaught sees Kerry retain title

Nobody saw this coming, holders Kerry totally overwhelming Cork in the second half at Páirc Uí Rinn last evening to win back-to-back Munster junior football titles for the first time since 2002-’03, and record the Kingdom’s first championship win at the venue since their minor success seven years ago.

One simple statistic illustrates how the game was turned on its head — Kerry adding 1-15 to an interval total scored in the opening 13 minutes.

Winning manager Stephen Wallace agreed it could not have been foreseen at half-time. “You did not want to be in our dressingroom, it was fairly hot,” he remarked. I said, ‘how could ye be so good for 10 minutes and so bad for the next 20....Look what they did for the following 30 minutes.”