Tony Leen: For Fossa's finest, there's one local peak still to scale

At 23, it is unfathomable to consider what David Clifford might do over the next few years. He is a father now, settled into part-time teaching at the Sem in Killarney, and sage enough to keep most hawkers at arm’s length.

SOMEWHERE OVER...David Clifford signs autographs for young supporters after East Kerry's win.

EITHER way, it would have taken a weather warning and a defensive set so deep as to be measured in fathoms to put a spoke in East Kerry’s wheels, but when David Clifford is given tidy parcels of land to operate in, the upshot is measured in absolutes.

Peter O’Sullivan’s Mid Kerry have neither a Tom O’Sullivan or a Mark O’Connor as Dingle had in the semi-final that almost derailed the unbackable favourites for the Bishop Moynihan Cup. And to their credit, they eschewed the route of entrenched fare on Sunday at Austin Stack Park and sought to take on their divisional rivals on equal terms. Or as equal as they get when David Clifford is in the red corner.