Fifteen ties that bind Kerry and Galway

The 1959 final between Kerry and Galway is famous for captain Mick O’Connell leaving the Sam after him in the dressing room

LEAP: Kerry captain Mick O'Connell shows off his fielding skills to team trainer Dr Eamonn O'Sullivan and the some of his team mates in Fitzgerald Stadium during collective training before the 1959 All-Ireland. (Photograph courtesy The Kerryman)

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A Kerryman did more than anyone to create Galway’s winning tradition in maroon. The colours’ first All-Ireland day was 1934, when Ballyferriter’s Mick Ferriter hit two goals to catapult the Tribesmen to victory. UCG student Ferriter (23) caught the selectors’ eyes after winning Sigerson and county medals with the college. Described as “a brilliant opportunist”, he proved it that day and Galway have stuck with maroon ever since.