North Kerry football is battling hard to come in from the cold 

Kerry's Shane Enright with Martin McMahon and Gordon Kelly of Clare. Picture: INPHO/Tommy Greally

There was a period during the most successful spell in the county’s storied football history when North Kerry was the living pulse and beating heartbeat of the game in the Kingdom.

During the famed ‘Glory Years’ from 1975 to 1986, when the Sam Maguire Cup was collected on eight occasions by Mick O’Dwyer’s team of the ages, men of the calibre of Charlie Nelligan, Tim Kennelly, Jimmy Deenihan, Denis ‘Ogie’ Moran and Eoin ‘Bomber’ Liston were among the first names on the team sheet, with a younger attacker John Kennedy soon to make his mark as well.