O'Shea has answered every question so far. Now for leadership

For Sean O’Shea, there was no bedding-in period. No cameo appearances off the bench to ease him into life at the top grade. Thrown in at the deep end by then manager Éamonn Fitzmaurice, O’Shea, such had been his prodigious showings at minor level, was simply expected to tread water.

This evening at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, the 20-year-old centre-forward will make his 20th appearance in the green and gold shirt. You’d have to go back to March 25 of last year, a dead-rubber above in Healy Park, Omagh, to find the last time Kerry took to the field without him.