'Kerry has eight or nine of the best free-takers in the country'

Abbeydorney manager Francis O’Halloran has been struck by the standard of free-taking in Kerry's hurling championship

Brendan O’Leary of Abbeydorney during the Kerry SHC semi-final win over Kilmoyley. Photo By Domnick Walsh 

Abbeydorney are the only one of eight North Kerry clubs in the Senior Hurling Championship not to have raised the Neilus Flynn Cup since the start of the new millennium. Once Crotta O’Neills ended a 55-year wait last year, Abbeydorney stand alone in enduring a 50-year wait since they last annexed the title in 1974. Even worse that Crottas are based in the same parish.

Francis O’Halloran, from the Ruan club in Clare, is the man at the Abbeydorney helm, with just Ballyduff in Sunday's final standing in the way of a famine ending.