Quizzing Kerry's Cliffords: 22 questions for 2022 Championship

We arrived full of intent, armed with questions on issues of national import. Then we saw Paudie Clifford's Aston Villa top and the entire pretence collapsed around our ankles.

David and Paudie Clifford at the launch of Spa GAA's Rockfest sevens tournament in Killarney on the June bank holiday weekend

SHORTENING the road to Cork, shaving the roundabout past Lissivigeen National School for the past thirty years, one seldom had the sense it would host a discussion with David or Paudie Clifford, never mind both, on the consequences of cross-laterality. Whether it truly is an indicator of academic excellence or is Lionel Messi just, well a freak.

If it seems a touch lofty to kick off the summer road, then you don’t understand how quickly this pair of ciotógs operate on the country’s championship fields. And how futile it is to be quizzing two of the game's most analysed attackers on the tricks of their trade, much less the meaning of life.