A rare visitor but Kelly has made himself at home in Croke Park

Ballyea’s loss in the All-Ireland senior club final on Jones Road five years ago is the only blot in Kelly’s Croke Park copybook:

RIGHT AT HOME: Clare’s Tony Kelly has only played in Croker on five occasions. ©INPHO/Tom Maher

For a player who is clearly suited to the expanses of Croke Park, Tony Kelly has not graced it enough there – Saturday will be his sixth ever game there.

He said himself as much himself as recently as after last Saturday week’s All-Ireland quarter-final win over Wexford. “We haven’t played there often. Peter Duggan was saying coming down on the bus that he’s only played there once, a few of us only played there before two or three times, four times max, and that was a massive reward.”