Ciarán McKeever: Kerry 'not the force that their name carries anymore'

The Armagh selector said Galway are "probably the best team we’ve played over the last four years and how they structurally set up, they set up like an Ulster team."

Selectors Ciarán McKeever, right, and Kieran Donaghy during an Armagh Media Conference ahead of the All-Ireland SFC final at the Carrickdale Hotel in Dundalk, Louth. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

“Not the force that their name carries anymore.” Armagh selector Ciarán McKeever’s assessment of Kerry is a brutal one but it had been their approach to last Saturday week’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Prior to the game, it had been 18 years since their previous championship meeting. In their last couple of Division 1 meetings in 2022 and ’23 Kerry were winners by a margin of one score each time.