'Everything they do is on the button' - David Clifford and Seanie O'Shea up close

As the most lethal duo of this Kerry generation get ready to turn their weapons on one another, the fire will be friendly and fierce too

BROTHERS IN ARMS: David Clifford, right, and Seán O'Shea of Kerry celebrate after the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Kerry and Galway at Croke Park. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

It didn’t work out like he’d have wanted but when Darran O’Sullivan thinks back now on his last year with Kerry he has both the consolation and lifelong claim that it coincided with Seánie O’Shea’s and David Clifford’s first, as starters anyway.

They’re hardly the only household names he shared a field or dressing room with in the cause of Kerry. For a decade or more he played alongside Declan O’Sullivan and Colm Cooper, the original other-worldly tandem.