Fitzmaurice: 'it’s where we wanted to be at the start of the league'

Kerry manager Eamonn Fitzmaurice wasn’t biting when asked about former Dublin star Paul Curran’s comments that the Kingdom should be “ashamed of themselves”, preferring to focus on his side’s upcoming league final against Dublin after beating Tyrone.

Curran hit out at the Kingdom’s defensive tactical set-up when the counties last met but Fitzmaurice was keener to focus on another date with Jim Gavin’s men who extended their unbeaten run against Monaghan yesterday.

Fitzmaurice said: “Playing Dublin on a Saturday night in Austin Stacks Park and playing them in Croke Park are two very different things.