Extended term for Éamonn Fitzmaurice ‘best outcome’

County chairman Tim Murphy insists that the two-year extension to Éamonn Fitzmaurice’s tenure as county senior football manager was “the best outcome for Kerry”.

Some delegates attending Wednesday’s meeting of the county board expressed misgivings about the length of the term offered to the Finuge man but Murphy said that such a timescale was vital “in order to provide a stable platform.”

And he noted that despite all the successes enjoyed by Kerry across the grades this season, an All-Ireland SFC title appears to be “the only currency that seems to matter.”