Kerry's GAA chairman Tim Murphy - 'The best footballers are still being produced in Kerry'

Kerry football was perilously close to falling into a funk five years ago, but the turnaround has been impressive. Not that there aren’t a couple of haymakers for the new GAA chairman, Tim Murphy to dodge still, writes Tony Leen. 

This isn’t a brag, stresses the county’s new GAA chairman Tim Murphy. “But I am firmly of the belief that the best footballers are still being produced in Kerry.”

The Brosna man, a no-frills full-back in his North Kerry playing days, is choosing an advantageous moment to make such a claim. Five years ago, well five years ago he just couldn’t have said such a thing within earshot of a white coat.