Peter Keane says Kerry minors had their homework done

The homework carried out by Kerry on their opponents leading into yesterday’s final was a key factor in the county’s third consecutive minor success, according to Peter Keane.

“We put a lot of work into our match-ups. Their two big guys were Evan Murphy and Robert Finnerty and both got substituted,” said the Kerry manager.

“Our defence was excellent today. David Naughton was superb, Michael Potts was superb, Dan O’Brien worked very hard and Mícheál Foley did well. We conceded three goals against Cork and we were very conscious of that. We didn’t want to concede anymore against Derry and the next thing we conceded two, which we weren’t happy with. We went out with a definite plan against Kildare and it was the same today. Goals win games. We didn’t concede any and we got three.