Interview: Jack O'Connor and the inside story of Kerry’s 38th All-Ireland title

'One of the mistakes I made in 2004 was I was way too obsessive. The adrenaline was running for weeks and months and I didn’t savour it enough. I never got off the rollercoaster'

HOLY GRAIL: Kerry team manager Jack O'Connor, with the Kingdom's Holy Grail that is the Sam Maguire Cup pictured on St. Finan's Beach in South Kerry on Friday. 

We are looking out from a well-set corner table with a check, cotton cloth in Killorglin’s Bianconi Inn, and getting out of his car across the street, outside Jack’s artisan bakery, is Jack himself.

Just Jack. Páidi. Micko. Now Jack.