Peter Keane insists November rain didn't fall heavier on Kerry

'It’s a Munster final, there’s never much in it. I wouldn’t pay a whole lot of attention to the divisions. If you apply the same logic to last year, it was Division 3 against Division 1 and I don’t think that matters a whole pile'

REBEL REIGN: Cork’s Mark Keane celebrates with teammates after the Munster SFC semi-final win over Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last November. Kerry boss Peter Keane has tried to put the defeat behind his side as he looks to Sunday’s meeting of the sides. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

It was a wary Peter Keane that spoke to the media prior to facing Cork last November and it’s a wary Keane that faces them now ahead of their next championship bout.

Only this time he is not being asked about how many of his young charges have yet to lose a championship game at any level to Cork or the possibility of Kerry’s seven-game unbeaten SFC run coming to an end. Both records have been expunged.