Éamonn Fitzmaurice: A huge weight lifted on Kerry's Redemption Sunday 

RELIEF: Tadhg Morley of Kerry after his side's victory in the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Kerry and Galway at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

This was an important win. Tradition courses through the veins of Kerry football's rich tapestry and is central to our identity. In the last decade the Dublin machine has eroded that tradition and caused plenty of retrospection. Now that the slide has been arrested Kerry can re-establish their preeminence in the game. 

The Kingdom have lost three All-Ireland finals in a row once before, in the 1960s and this was something to be avoided yesterday. That weight of losing finals gets incrementally heavier with each passing final.