The Kingdom’s kingmaker: Patrick O'Sullivan Interview

Kerry bid for their second back-to-back All-Ireland in less than a decade tomorrow at Croke Park, but you’d have got long odds on that in 2012 after they’d lost a quarter-final to Donegal. No-one was putting their hand up to replace Jack O’Connor, something Kerry GAA chairman Patrick O’Sullivan recognised better than most. So what’s changed? And how much longer can the Kingdom stay top of the tree

BY this afternoon at one o’clock, when they board a train in Killarney and the doors close behind them, the madness will subside. Just a little.

But because he’s de-facto liaison between officialdom and team management for the Kerry football team, Patrick O’Sullivan will turn player protector for the next 24 hours before handing them over to Éamonn Fitzmaurice to be unleashed onto Croke Park.