Have Limerick's rulebreakers set a dual-captain precedent?

CAPTAINS: Seán McMahon of Dublin in action against Seán O'Shea, left, and Joe O'Connor of Kerry during the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Semi-Final. Photo by Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

GAA president Larry McCarthy wasn’t expecting it. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have called on just Declan Hannon to lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup. But the presence of injured vice-captain Cian Lynch on the Hogan Stand rostrum last Sunday suggested something was afoot.

And so for the first time in eight years two men accepted one of the senior championship cups, the last time when Kerry playing captain Fionn Fitzgerald lifted it with his Dr Crokes club-mate and team skipper Kieran O’Leary who gave the speech having come off the bench in the win over Donegal.