Dublin v Kerry narrative reshaped and reclaimed in League final bookend

A league final like no other. A league final so pregnant with significance that it was bound to deliver.

What was going to break? Dublin’s run? Or another part of Kerry? Winning this game wasn’t going to make Kerry but losing it and confirming Dublin’s dominance would hardly have been ideal.

It may be April — Dublin and Kerry have eight and nine weeks, respectively, to their first championship outings — but this result was a bookend. Kerry had been the last team to beat Dublin before they embarked on this incredible 36-game unbeaten journey. There is something apt about them being the team to have brought it to an end but what will matter most is that the narrative, that buzzword during the week, is now theirs for the time being.