Éamonn Fitzmaurice: ‘There comes a point when you have to say something. I was sick of it.’

The short-term focus for Éamonn Fitzmaurice is tomorrow’s visit of Clare. The long-term focus is getting back to Croke Park to atone for the catalogue of Dublin defeats which have been accumulating.

The Kerry manager isn’t concerned at present with the latter, or so he tells us. Problem, then, because the seven reporters present in the Meadowlands Hotel in Tralee are more interested in discussing Dublin’s hold on Kerry rather than anything likely to happen in Killarney tomorrow. Oh well....

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