'Every single team he had, he got the very most out of them' - Tomás Ó Sé on Liam Kearns

The Tralee native never got the shot to manage his own county

Kerry U20 manager Tomás Ó Sé, Tyrone U20 captain Ruairí Canavan and Tyrone U20 manager Paul Devlin at the launch of the 2023 EirGrid GAA Football U20 All-Ireland Championship at Croke Park. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Tomas Ó Sé played under Liam Kearns - with Munster - and against his teams too, as well as coming mightily close last year to taking the Offaly senior manager's job which his fellow Kerry man eventually got.

What Ó Sé, nor any other Kerry player, ever did, however, was play for a Kerry team managed by the Tralee man whose face never quite seemed to fit when it came to the hiring of senior Kingdom managers.