Diligent Colm Boyle the right man to ‘mind the house’

It’s the penultimate minute of first-half injury-time in last year’s All-Ireland semi-final replay in Limerick.Mayo lead by a point when Colm Boyle appears to make a genuine and fair challenge on Barry John Keane only for Cormac Reilly to think otherwise. Keane points the free to level it up and Kerry never look back.

Boyle was wronged but it’s a measure of the man that he harnesses the slight as a call for improvement on his part.

“Maybe I left the hand in there a small bit long or whatever. Some people might say it was a soft free. But whether it was or not it was given. That was it, unfortunately.”