‘The day you believe you have all the knowledge is the day you’ll become unstuck’

“I learned a long time ago when Kerry talk about other counties, I take it with a pinch of salt.”

Thus spoke Jim Gavin in July four years ago after Darragh Ó Sé wrote in his Irish Times column of Diarmuid Connolly still having “a bit of a scamp in him” and there being “something to be said for pulling his tail and seeing if he’ll hiss back at you”.