Love of the game drives on Kerry captain Caroline Kelly to ‘make things right’

For seven years, Caroline Kelly endured a nine-hour round-trip, twice a week, just to pull on the Kerry jersey.

There were times she bumped into former Cork footballer Geraldine O’Flynn in a remote petrol station en route, who herself was venturing home for training, but at least O’Flynn was winning. Kelly’s ‘love of the game’, despite fewer victories, had blurred her vision of the madness of it all.

“Yeah, I stuck with it because of that. The love of the game. I want to play for as long as I can, and to be honest, being part of a group makes it harder to walk away.