‘Champions of the World’: Unbeaten Kerry’s first golden years

The Kingdom’s incredible winning streak over 90 years ago was all the more remarkable given the political tensions with the squad, writes Richard McElligott.

”FEARLESS and dashing, their footballers are almost invincible” — such words would serve as a worthy epitaph for Jim Gavin’s Dublin as they travel to Tralee looking to record 34 straight games without defeat in League and Championship football.

However those sentiments, expressed in the Irish Independent in September 1932, actually relate to the Kerry side whose historic record Dublin now seek to emulate.