The Big Interview: Joe Kavanagh and Dara Ó Cinnéide recall a sizzling Sunday in Killarney

Twenty years ago Cork and Kerry played what we all thought was the last do-or-die Munster championship match between the counties.

Anthony Lynch of Cork in action against Darragh Ó Sé of Kerry during the 2000 Bank of Ireland Munster SFC semi-final. Picture: Damien Eagers/Sportsfile

‘Eighteenth of June. Hottest day ever in Killarney. Jeezuus. Couldn’t even warm up on the Crokes pitch, had to keep the lads in the shade, conserve energy, fluid. “Keep the boots off.” Hot day like that, better to prepare without the boots. I think your ankles swell in the heat.’ 

- Páidí Ó Sé in Páidí: The Autobiography