Darragh Long: Ladies football has gone to a new level. We need our own Jim Gavin to look at the rules

Former joint Kerry All-Ireland winning ladies football manager Darragh Long believes the rules of the sport are lagging behind the standards which players have reached.

This week, former Kerry ladies football managers Declan Quill and Darragh Long ran a four-day camp for players aged 12-16. Pic: Seb Daly/Sportsfile

In the months after Kerry’s first All-Ireland ladies football title in over three decades, the duo who engineered it made a choice. The legacy at senior level was secure; what they could build beneath that was only beginning.

Over coffee one morning, Declan Quill floated an idea to his former joint-manager, Darragh Long. The pair had been together for the famine-ending triumph of 2024. Now, they wanted to stitch something from the grassroots to the top.