Unrest in Kerry GAA: Too many lads with too much to say

Not for the first time, O’Connor will return to a Kerry dressing room of players bent out of shape. Not by Tyrone, but by their own

Former Kerry manager Peter Keane. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie

“One great thing about Kerry footballers,” former GAA president Sean Kelly tweeted last week: “They’ve never got involved in hiring or firing of managers. They leave that to the County Board and they concentrate on playing. Admirable!”

Other counties, some nearby, might counter that it’s easy for those football lads in the Kingdom to maintain a respectable distance from the political rotor blades when they walk on rose petals and have every requirement attended to. But Kelly, a former Kerry chairman himself, is broadly correct in the tradition of Kerry men doing their talking on grass.