GAA talking points: The Kerry-Tyrone edge, Easkey's journey, Kelly's legacy

The big Talking Points ahead of the weekend's All-Ireland Junior and Intermediate finals in football and hurling

HEATED RIVALRY: The edge between Kerry and Tyrone has occasionally spilt into club action between the counties in the latter stages of the All-Ireland campaigns. There was certainly sulphur in the air when Finuge and Cookstown met in the 2013 All-Ireland Intermediate final. Pic: David Maher/Sportsfile

Kerry and Tyrone teams square off again.

In the modern and storied history of the Kerry-Tyrone relationship, the dynamic that underpinned football’s most embittered long-distance rivalry radically shifted throughout the last decade. Kerry began to get on top and dominate the relationship but Tyrone grimly reminded them in the 2021 All-Ireland semi-final that they never had any intention of going away.