David Clifford's class helps Kerry to glorious three in a row

Kerry 3-7 Galway 0-9: That 20-year famine that preceded the first of Jack O’Connor’s two minor triumphs must now surely be a distant memory down Kingdom country.

Yesterday’s seven-point victory over Galway delivered a third consecutive Tom Markham Cup success and added to the Hogan Cup wins enjoyed by Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne (2014 and ’15) and St Brendan’s Killarney in April, this is a truly golden period for underage football in Kerry.

Not since the Cork teams of the late sixties has a county managed to complete the three-in-a-row of All-Ireland titles at this grade and Kerry have now become the first county to achieve this feat twice, the first Kerry treble completed way back in 1933.