Opportunity knocked and Seán Meehan answered

With Kiskeam just a stone’s throw from the Cork-Kerry border, the rivalry is more pronounced in Meehan’s neck of the woods.

DRIVING ON: Seán Meehan shrugs off Kerry’s Gavin White in last year’s Munster SFC semi-final at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. Meehan was a surprise inclusion on that occasion. Picture: Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

With Fitzgerald Stadium “only 25 minutes back the road” from home in Kiskeam, hardly a summer went by during Seán Meehan’s youth where he didn’t attend a game in Killarney.

Meehan returns to Fitzgerald Stadium this weekend, though not in the usual spectating capacity. Tomorrow’s Munster final, he reveals, will be his first time lining out on the Killarney sod.