Collective class sees Dr Crokes home

Dr Crokes 2-16 Kenmare District 1-12: They’re back. The famine on Lewis Road, although brief, is no more. 

And while yesterday’s final climb back to the summit of Kerry football wasn’t as swashbuckling as the victories over Dingle or Austin Stacks at the tail end of their unbroken dominance between 2010 and 2013, this seven-point dismissal of Kenmare District was every bit as satisfying.

So long as Colm Cooper, Kieran O’Leary, and Brian Looney are among their starting six forwards, Dr Crokes’ movement and precision in front of goal, as was shown here, will be a match for almost any club team in the country. But it was neither Cooper’s seven-point haul, O’Leary’s goal nor Looney’s four second-half beauties which delivered them an 11th Bishop Moynihan title.