Kerry's Penn and Teller act

At the moment Munster finals aren’t even full stops on Kerry’s road. Éamonn Fitzmaurice has yet to postmortem a loss in the province as manager, but for the best part of yesterday’s 11-point defeat of Cork.

Their focus was true. Kerry won a 79th provincial football title with plenty to spare yesterday and they looked honed and hungry doing it.

“They’re good, lads,” sighed Cork manager Peadar Healy afterwards. “They’ll take a bit of stopping in the All-Ireland series.”