Paul Murphy: In a county like Kerry, one All-Ireland doesn’t really register

Paul Murphy is not shy of a Munster medal. It’s his Celtic Cross collection that concerns him.

Now halfway through his fifth season with the Kerry footballers, the raiding Rathmore half-back has four Munster SFC medals in the back pocket. The priority is to swell that haul tomorrow evening, but it’s not what his 2018 season is geared towards.

Murphy enjoyed a dream debut season with the Kingdom back in 2014, starting every league and championship fixture en-route to the county’s 37th Sam Maguire success. He also became the fourth Rathmore footballer — Ger Crowley (1969), Aidan O’Mahony (2006), Tom O’Sullivan (2009) — to turn in a man- of-the-match All-Ireland final performance and was rewarded with an All-Star for such.