'It was fairytale stuff': The last team Mick O'Dwyer managed

The last team Mick O'Dwyer managed was a Waterville-Dromid U14 team in 2014. They won that year's Kerry County League Division 8 title. For many of those players, it's an experience they hold close to their heart. 

Jack Curran with Mick O'Dwyer. Pic: Jack Curran

When tourists visited O’Dwyers pub in Waterville to gaze upon the memorabilia from Kerry’s Golden Years adorning the walls in recent times, one of the bar staff would intimate that he was also part of the Micko legend.

“I'd always joke that I was the last winning captain that he had,” says James Fitzgerald. “They always loved it.” It was said with a roguishness, the type Micko would likely have appreciated, but it was also true. In 2014, Fitzgerald captained an amalgamated Waterville-Dromid under-14 side to the County League Division 8 title. It was the last team Mick O’Dwyer managed.