O’Connor frustrated to lose Kerry stars

Jack O’Connor has hit out at the rule preventing David Clifford and Seán O’Shea from playing with the Kerry U20s this year.

The Kerry U20s, under the guidance of three-time All-Ireland winning senior manager O’Connor, begin their provincial campaign away to Limerick on Friday week but will be without the two outstanding teenage footballers — Clifford and O’Shea — in the county.

Under general rule, any player who is selected on a 26-man senior championship squad is ineligible to play in an U20 match in the same year.