Dingle dilemma: Celebrate first county in 77 years or join the Kerry team holiday to Nashville?

For a handful of Dingle's finest, the pull and push of local celebrations against a Kerry team holiday is a tough one to call

PLANES, TRAINS: Dingle captain Paul Geaney may need a lie down as he follows up his man of the match display in Sunday's Kerry SFC final with a night of celebration in West Kerry and then an overnight journey to Dublin to catch a flight to Nashville. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Fromthe symbolical walk west across Blennerville Bridge on Sunday night with the Bishop Moynihan Cup to a transatlantic flight Monday from Dublin to Nashville, Tennessee. If a few of Dingle's newly minted Kerry football champions aren't quite sure what time zone they're in, they could be forgiven.

However long midfielder Mark O'Connor manages to soak in the celebrations and evade the gravitational pull of a return to Australia, some of his Kerry colleagues have already had to pull stumps on the hometown madness.