When Kenmare District's two tribes go to war as one

Two great photos exist of Pat Spillane from the Kerry SFC final replay, 1987.

In the first — printed that winter in the Kerry GAA yearbook — Spillane is stretched out in Austin Stack Park, visited by agony. His right hand massages despair from his forehead in the classic pose of a man whose day is done.

A concerned bystander in street clothes offers consultancy while the late Dr Denis O’Connor applies a stethoscope to the Spillane midriff, frowning a diagnosis.