Developing young talent has been Mikey Sheehy’s great legacy

Afew simple but evocative lines from Ogie Moran on Mikey Sheehy’s Laochra Gael in 2012 that chime loudest now when considering his old team-mate’s incarnation as a Kerry selector.

“He was always a team player. He never gave out. He always encouraged you if you made a mistake.”

It’s said that as tight as Eamonn Fitzmaurice and Diarmuid Murphy were buddies, having played and worked as selectors together under Jack O’Connor, it was Sheehy who Fitzmaurice first approached about joining his management team in 2012.