Stepping away from Kerry, Griffin aware of everything he’s giving up

In ‘stepping away’, as he puts it, from the Kerry football panel, Mark Griffin knows precisely what he is giving up: the jersey he eyed ambitiously since he was eight.

Confirmation from the 28-year-old St Michael’s Foilmore man to Examiner Sport that he is taking a break from the inter-county treadmill in 2020 mightn’t trigger a news tremor, because he wasn’t central to Kerry’s September journey this year.