Kerry break Dublin's blue wave

Dublin 1-16 Kerry 0-20: A young Kerry team will take heart in lifting some national silverware but the 20th league title claimed by the county is a virtual footnote on a tumultuous afternoon loaded with significance.

This was a game that spilled far beyond the boundaries of the 70 minutes or one spring campaign. It brings Dublin’s two-year unbeaten league and championship run to an end and gives Eamonn Fitzmaurice only a second win over the old foe in ten attempts.

It also gives heart to the neutral that the summer ahead doesn’t have to be a one-way ticket to another blue parade in September and, maybe most importantly of all, it proves Fitzmaurice’s point that no team is whiter than white.