Record-breaking Kerry juniors target senior step-up

Kerry 2-19 Meath 1-14: Jimmy Keane is confident the younger members of his All-Ireland junior winning team will, in time, graduate to the county’s senior set-up.

Saturday’s win over Meath was the county’s third consecutive All-Ireland junior title — and a record 18th in all — and with Tadhg Morley, Gavin Crowley, Adrian Spillane, and Jason Foley having been drafted into Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s panel off the back of junior wins in 2015 and 2016 respectively, Keane is expecting students of the 2017 class to follow suit.

“Brian Sugrue at corner-back was outstanding, Daniel O’Brien is another young fella who did really well. Tomás Ó Sé, too, is a great young fella. They are just a few young lads who can keep moving up. There are a few more there, and Éamonn could have worse inside with him,” said Keane.